N&O Article: Wake Schoold Still in a Bind! (Cary: home, middle schools)
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Interesting article. Comes down to will there be choice in Wake County Public School allowing our children to attend on a traditional calendar or will it be mandated that all new Elementary and Middle schools will be on a year round schedule. Debate on both sides with Pro's and Con's. It appears in order to facilitate the number of projected new students entering the system year round will be the only option. What do you think?newsobserver.com | Wake schools still in a bind (http://www.newsobserver.com/news/education/wake/story/968419.html - broken link)
I agree with Dawn Gruff (of Wake CARES) that one of the new schools should be opened as a traditional calendar school to meet the demand for parents who prefer to stay in a traditional calendar school.
I just don't understand why WCPSS proposed a reassignment plan using assumptions that were deemed unconstituational just last year. Has the law changed???
I agree that at least one school should be opened as a traditional calendar school. I like the YR concept, but until WCPSS can guarantee a family that all their kids will be on the same track schedule, I don't think its fair.
They can still open them as YR schools, they just can't force you to go there. I have no problems with YR schools, but I DO think that for every 2 YR schools built, one traditional should open. It's just going to make everyone already in traditional schools miserable with more overcrowding and leave WCPSS scrambling to find spots whever they can for the parents who opt of YR.
I think its really interesting that the BOE used the justification that they were being 'forced' by the board of commissioners into the Year Round option - pushed into a corner. And now the board of commissioners has put it back in their lap basically saying that it was the BOE decision all along. Someone if not many someones are playing a shell game with our children. And I think, in Cary Mayor's words, the 'entrenched philosophy' of the BOE (read Chuck Delaney's resume and what he has committed his life work to - social agenda) has A LOT to do with it.
They can still open them as YR schools, they just can't force you to go there. I have no problems with YR schools, but I DO think that for every 2 YR schools built, one traditional should open. It's just going to make everyone already in traditional schools miserable with more overcrowding and leave WCPSS scrambling to find spots whever they can for the parents who opt of YR.
Maybe the idea is to make parents miserable at traditional schools so that they opt into YR schools. Which if this is the case is pretty terrible since the kids are the ones affected the most!
Maybe the idea is to make parents miserable at traditional schools so that they opt into YR schools. Which if this is the case is pretty terrible since the kids are the ones affected the most!
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WCPSS has already said that they are not making the traditional opt outs attractive on purpose. Meanwhile they are STILL denying families who want YR to get it. I have 2 YR schools within a few miles of my home that are VERY underenrolled but they wouldn't let us go there. Instead we are at our incredibly overcrowded traditional school.
Maybe the idea is to make parents miserable at traditional schools so that they opt into YR schools. Which if this is the case is pretty terrible since the kids are the ones affected the most!
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WCPSS has already said that they are not making the traditional opt outs attractive on purpose. Meanwhile they are STILL denying families who want YR to get it. I have 2 YR schools within a few miles of my home that are VERY underenrolled but they wouldn't let us go there. Instead we are at our incredibly overcrowded traditional school.
And it is precisely this sort of underhanded crap by WCPSS, using our children as pawns, that has us looking at other counties. Unless I simply can't help it, my son will not be a student in the WCPSS.
Unless I simply can't help it, my son will not be a student in the WCPSS.
I don't blame you. What's so funny to me is that everybody thinks its the newcomers who don't like the system but I have met and heard from more and more native Wake residents who are tired of the assignment policies.
And it is precisely this sort of underhanded crap by WCPSS, using our children as pawns, that has us looking at other counties. Unless I simply can't help it, my son will not be a student in the WCPSS.
Totally agree!
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