So "peers" live on the same street but opposite sides and so go to different schools
WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Crazy Larry, the super who only is interested in social promotion, oh, now yet another reorganization of schools. When does it stop?
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Schenectady forum will look at new boundary lines By Paul Nelson Published 5:20 pm, Saturday, July 26, 2014
Schenectady
Lines within the Schenectady school district can be a bit quirky.
In some neighborhoods, youngsters living on one side of a street go to a different school than their peers on the other side of the same block, Superintendent Larry Spring points out.
District leaders hope a community meeting Tuesday at the high school will ease any confusion and solicit input from parents about how to redraw the current attendance zones. The goal includes reducing the number of students being bused long distances to other sections of the city.
Parents will also be able to inspect a map of the city's school districts created by a demographer to ensure that their neighborhoods are not carved up helter skelter.
"We need the public to double-check our thinking of where those neighborhoods are," Spring said.
Another benefit of a redistricting and re-configuration of grade levels will better position the pre-kindergarten to 12th grade district of 10,000 students for the expected surge in student enrollment over the next six years.
The changes call for the district to shift to a system of pre-k to fifth-grade elementary schools and sixth to eighth grades for middle school. The high school will remain grades 9 to 12.
Additionally, Elmer Avenue will close and Oneida Middle School, which is currently closed, will reopen.
The Tuesday gathering is one of several the district has scheduled until the end of the year before the school board votes on the issue in January.
The new districts are supposed to be implemented beginning in the 2016-17 school year.
The process is being overseen by a Redistricting Subcommittee, which is being led by district Director for Planning and Accountability Lori McKenna, and is composed of parents, staff and community members.
Meantime, city residents will also get a chance during Wednesday's school board meeting to comment on proposed changes to the district's code of conduct that revolve around ways school staff members can intervene with problem students.
Spring said one of those intervention methods calls for a staff member the student has a good relationship with to check in on the youngster at the beginning and end of the school day to help him or her develop healthy coping skills.
He said the goal is to bring down the number of student suspensions and hearings.
The latter, which Spring said dropped by 20 percent in the last school year, is triggered by a suspension of more than five days for behavior including taking a weapon to school, violence against another student or a history of unruly conduct.
Can you see it now????[b][/b]
Once the kids on one side of the street are changed, then we'll hear mom or baby daddy, "WAAAAAAHHHHHH! But Johnny's peer who lives around the corner, our back yards are next to each other, will be going to a different school than Johnny!!!!!
Get back to the neighborhood schools and save the taxpayers money. They probably could get the vast majority of the kids within a distance so that much of the busing can be cut. Eliminate most of the busing, that means less cost for gas, maintenance, repairs, staff, liability insurance, etc, etc.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
yes indeed...the bus companys/garages here in the city act and think they are in charge of the district ....this should prove to be a bit interesting...
This will happen no matter how they draw the lines though. At some point there will be kids on each side of whatever line is drawn. It happens in every district that has more than one school and in neighborhoods that straddle school districts. I have friend that are two houses down from the Nisky border. Her kids are schenectady, all the other kids on the street are Niskayuna.
The amount of busing in this geographically small city is ridiculous though. There doesn't seem to be many bus stops either. Pick a kid up at their home, drive 30 fyards, pick another kid up at their home, drive another 30 yards....what happen to one or two bus stops per neighborhood that everyone gathered at?
Wow. News story on Channel 6 has Crazy Larry saying "neighborhood schools" and he says that will save on busing costs which will save taxpayers money.
Gee, DV has been shaking those two pom poms on his chest for having one school district in the whole county and I have stated that will cost a fortune because of busing costs. DV refuses to address that FACT
However what will a return to neighborhood schools do to that racial balance? Do we now see the state and federal government coming in telling the district they can't do it? Or a year after it's done, they have to undo it?
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
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