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Originally Posted by NCcostello
Your right - that's why we selected an area 1 mile from 485, with 4 good elementary schools and a fairly new HS less than 5 min away - not much building in our area and the schools not overcrowded. Now with the redistricted, we get to drive 12.7 miles in the opposite direction and the schools are way over capacity. So all the thought, plans for what if, picking an older more established neighborhood where I have to renovate the house instead of the easy move in sexy house, the access to the highway for work - yup all gone by the change of a line. The "planning" on UC's part....change it all up every 2-3 yrs....we put a lot of thought into this move, took 5 months learning the area and UC plan is to not plan...so now it was all for waste. Planning in UC is not allowed or encouraged. The "growth" in UC isn't all that much 356 kids for the entire county. Some schools way over capacity now while other have tons of empty seats as a result of UC planning or lack there of it.
so...for all those who blame the newcomers - what should I have done differently?
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Just an observation from another transplant. . . People come on here dead set on Union County. Many work in Uptown. Its pretty simple. A commute to Uptown is easier from the west. There are good schools west of Charlotte, but the area is recovering from the textile collapse. It's not all new & shiny. There are warts. Here's the thing. . .the schools are stable & will continue to be stable because it's not Union County. The school district is county-wide.that means that students csn be shuffled around. They don't have to send kids to school in the town where they live. It's cheaper, tax-wise, but there's that mobility catch. I've known about that catch since the 60s. The feds came swooping into my former county & tried to institute bussing. When they realized that each town was an individual district they backed out.
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