East Hamilton / Ooltewah School Zoning change (house, buying, schools)

[An Einnseanair]

Things got a little "contentious" at the school board meeting yesterday. People looking at buying in the area may need to pay a little extra attention to where the zone lines are. Entire subdivisions are being swapped around.

East Hamilton parents hear of school zoning plans | timesfreepress.com

The link is to an article with an embedded video plus a proposed zoning map.

[hotboi]

I'm sure this issue is going to spiral out of control. May people bought their homes just to be zoned for certain schools, and now they are getting shuffled around. It makes no sense. Honestly, this is to keep all the parents of the rich kids happy that live in such subdivisions of Emerald Valley and the TN side of Windstone, but hey, if they paid $400 and $500k to attend a school, that is what they should be allowed to do.

[An Einnseanair]

Wow... it's like you look for threads to make hostile comments. Not everything is a conspiracy.

Maybe the school board screwed up when they originally drew the zoning maps, maybe hundreds of people suddenly moved to the area because the new school was supposed to be "better", maybe something else, or maybe a combination of a half dozen things. But whatever the reason, until a new school is built in the area, they've GOT to shift some students out of the overcrowded school. The reality is that the current student load at East Hamilton Middle-High is about 2000 kids and it was built to accommodate about 1600. Ooltewah has extra room. So the solution is shift the zones to move some kids who used to be in EHM-H over to Ooltewah. Will this royally ****-off people who specifically purchased a more expensive house just to get in a good zone? Probably. But that doesn't change the reality that you simply can't fit that many kids into one building.

I personally don't see how it can "spiral out of control". Unless they start drawing gerrymandering school zones like they do political voting zones, but I don't think that's going to happen.

[hotboi]

Originally Posted by jwkilgore

Wow... it's like you look for threads to make hostile comments. Not everything is a conspiracy.

Maybe the school board screwed up when they originally drew the zoning maps, maybe hundreds of people suddenly moved to the area because the new school was supposed to be "better", maybe something else, or maybe a combination of a half dozen things. But whatever the reason, until a new school is built in the area, they've GOT to shift some students out of the overcrowded school. The reality is that the current student load at East Hamilton Middle-High is about 2000 kids and it was built to accommodate about 1600. Ooltewah has extra room. So the solution is shift the zones to move some kids who used to be in EHM-H over to Ooltewah. Will this royally ****-off people who specifically purchased a more expensive house just to get in a good zone? Probably. But that doesn't change the reality that you simply can't fit that many kids into one building.

I personally don't see how it can "spiral out of control". Unless they start drawing gerrymandering school zones like they do political voting zones, but I don't think that's going to happen.

Hostile Comment? Just an opinion. I never said that is definitely what is going on. Wasn't the reason for building this school due to overcrowding at Ooltewah? So now they are going to shift kids back to Ooltewah? Interesting. P.S. I'm not "hostile" just making a statement.