Children / Friends / Schools (Raleigh, Cary, Waxhaw: transplants, neighborhoods, construction)

[Weis02]

With all the resdistricting and bussing with the school, how does this effect children and their friendships and maintaining them?

[AdamAndTerri]

I'm not sure, but my best guess would be not positive, therefore, I am not going to risk it. After all, my kids will be in a new state, new school, etc. I don't think they need another stress by worrying about not going to school with kids the following year when they have had time to build new relationships. That's why we are putting this criteria on the top of our priorities list when selecting a place to live.

[I'minformed2]

Yeah, it's, pretty crapy. It causes parents to get violent.....seriously. Upper middle class professsional parents from North Raleigh and Cary (moreso north realeigh because that area gets redistricted more) get violent to stop their kids from getting sent to schools they don't want them to go to . Wake County schools should be dissolved and broken up into smaller, easier to manage districts for the better of everyone..... no more kids getting reassigned and having to lose friends, no more bussing to schools 15 miles away, no more having families with kids going to different schools... no more of this ridiculousness. It would be great, but it would never happen. It's too much of a "northern thing" to have school districts based on towns rather than counties.

[SeattlitefromNC]

There should be a warning to potential transplants that if you choose to move to NC -- especially to any of the larger communities in Wake County -- you can pretty much expect to be redistricted at some point. The schools are growing so fast, and I imagine that many parents get upset when they spend a lot of money to live in a certain subdivision only to find out that redistricting is a reality over there.

It's par for the course, and evidence of growing pains ... so what can you do? It's just another life lesson, I guess.

[Weis02]

Here we I live now, where you live determines the school. A few years back we add to an elementary but those closest to the school were re-districted there....

Are there after school activities or other things children do?

For example, here my daughter does ballet, Girl Scouts, an art program, my son plays little league and do kids have "play dates" - thanks again

[NYer]

Originally Posted by i'minformed

Yeah, it's, pretty crapy. It causes parents to get violent.....seriously. Upper middle class professsional parents from North Raleigh and Cary (moreso north realeigh because that area gets redistricted more) get violent to stop their kids from getting sent to schools they don't want them to go to . Wake County schools should be dissolved and broken up into smaller, easier to manage districts for the better of everyone..... no more kids getting reassigned and having to lose friends, no more bussing to schools 15 miles away, no more having families with kids going to different schools... no more of this ridiculousness. It would be great, but it would never happen. It's too much of a "northern thing" to have school districts based on towns rather than counties.

don't push for more layers of administration.
Push for neighborhood schools & more magnets, push developers to foot the whole bill for new school construction, but don't do "the norhtern thing"

Our dirty little secrets arethat we redistrict up here too, & tha tthe great schools you are hearing about are limited to certain neighborhoods.

[Weis02]

you are very accurate, as we are still very much "segregated" here too. The best schools are in the (no race intended) but the good schools are in the :white areas and High income areas in the North SHore of LI - not to say there are not other races there but statistically they are greater then 95% white.

[carebear3030]

Is there a place where I can find out where the school districts are? How can we determine which areas belong to which schools. Why so much redistricting? Is this due to new schools being built and therefore leveling out the volume of children? Or do they have no real rhyme or reason for where the kids go and why?

I live in Cincinnati, and have always known...ok you live here this is the school you go to. I really do not understand the concept of magnet schools. I also would not understand that if they do have to redistrict because a new school is added, why would your own kids have to go to different schools? Wouldnt they be redistricted to the same school? That is of course unless they are not near the same grade.

[mmdj43]

Originally Posted by SeattlitefromNC

The schools are growing so fast, and I imagine that many parents get upset when they spend a lot of money to live in a certain subdivision only to find out that redistricting is a reality over there.

You are correct. When we were looking to move to NC from NY, our agent from the Waxhaw area said to be careful when selecting an area/subdivision based on the schools because reassigning can occur. She's an NC native and she just got a letter stating that her daughter will be reassigned. So you're right, it can most definitely happen. I guess worse case scenario would be private school.

Originally Posted by carebear3030

Is there a place where I can find out where the school districts are? How can we determine which areas belong to which schools. Why so much redistricting? Is this due to new schools being built and therefore leveling out the volume of children? Or do they have no real rhyme or reason for where the kids go and why?

I live in Cincinnati, and have always known...ok you live here this is the school you go to. I really do not understand the concept of magnet schools. I also would not understand that if they do have to redistrict because a new school is added, why would your own kids have to go to different schools? Wouldnt they be redistricted to the same school? That is of course unless they are not near the same grade.

If you are looking to move to a subdivision, you can check the builder's website and they will generally post what schools the subdivision belongs to. Your realtor will also tell you but he/she will also tell you that there is the possibility of reassignment. We have an elementary school adjacent to the front entrance of our subdivision that we're moving to but the builder's website does state the possibility of reassignment.

[I'minformed2]

Originally Posted by carebear3030

Is there a place where I can find out where the school districts are? How can we determine which areas belong to which schools. Why so much redistricting? Is this due to new schools being built and therefore leveling out the volume of children? Or do they have no real rhyme or reason for where the kids go and why?

I live in Cincinnati, and have always known...ok you live here this is the school you go to. I really do not understand the concept of magnet schools. I also would not understand that if they do have to redistrict because a new school is added, why would your own kids have to go to different schools? Wouldnt they be redistricted to the same school? That is of course unless they are not near the same grade.

The kids of close age going to different schools thing works out like this.... it's how my kids would go to school this coming year if we were to still live here (or if the possiblity that we can't move until next year happens, how they will go to school next year). When they redistict neighborhoods to different schools, espeically high schools, the older ones get to stay at the school they started out at. My son will be a senior next year so they won't make him change schools, eventhough the neighborhood is now redistricted to Panther Creek HS, a new school they just built. But my daughter will be a freshman, so they will make her go to the new school. It's also fairly common in elementary schools, where there are more grade levels. If you have children that are about 3 or 4 years apart, there's a good chance that at times when they should be going to the same school , they wont.