No matter what plan they choose, some neighborhoods will be upset about the outcome. The bottom line is that they need to move more kids to AMCHS. When I read parents who live in areas like Dove Crossing complaining that their kids may get bused to Consol, I wonder how they could possibly think it makes more sense to bus kids from the farthest south neighborhoods in the whole district all the way north to AMCHS. Let's face it: very few (if any) kids from Dove Crossing walk all the way to CSHS. Those kids can be quickly and easily bused to Consol. The costs to bus and the times on a bus for kids in south College Station to be transported past CSHS to AMCHS would be ridiculous.

Option 1 would create a "super school" at AMCHS. It's wrong and unfair to put ALL the highest SES neighborhoods in the district at a single high school: Pebble Creek, Williams Creek, Indian Lakes, Southwood Forest, Nantucket, Saddle Creek, Duck Haven, etc. Does anyone honestly think it makes sense to put ALL those neighborhoods at one high school the way Option 1 would do so?? It's completely ridiculous. It creates a super school and disrupts the maximum number of households. Maximum disruption and a super school. Are we out of our minds?

Option 3 disrupts far fewer families because it finally begins to focus on ZONING new developments where we need them to go, rather than REZONING existing neighborhoods to different schools. Option 3 accomplishes all of the board's stated goals, keeps the growth rates of the two schools the most similar of all the options, and disrupts the fewest numbers of kids and households because it zones a huge new development with high future growth to AMCHS. Option 3 is by far the most sensible plan.

These zones are so dumb. It's like a crap shoot of who will go where. They might as well just have a lottery to select which individual kid goes where.

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Option 3 accomplishes all of the board's stated goals, keeps the growth rates of the two schools the most similar of all the options, and disrupts the fewest numbers of kids and households because it zones a huge new development with high future growth to AMCHS. Option 3 is by far the most sensible plan.

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Option three is not the best of those three plans, it's the worst.

Taking kids that are on Barron Road and can walk or bike to school in less than 10 minutes and moving them across town is ridiculous.

Shenandoah is 1 mile from CSHS and 4 miles from consol. Duck haven, saddle creek and IL are closer to 10mi away. Shenandoah is geographically small and dense with students. The transporting of those kids via bus 4 miles to consol makes a lot more sense financially and time-wise compared to 3 large, spread-out, low density neighborhoods that are 10miles away.

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The transporting of those kids via bus 4 miles to consol makes a lot more sense financially and time-wise compared to 3 large, spread-out, low density neighborhoods that are 10miles away.

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What makes more sense from that standpoint is having the kids that are north of 2818 and are zoned for CSHS going to Consolidated.

The school board isn't using logic or "what makes more sense" when it comes to getting kids to and from school.

The problem is instead of zoning areas that make since, they are turning the district into a Frankenstein. So Why would they be after Indian Lakes, Saddle Creek, and Duck Haven when these hoods are so far south that the next street is literally zoned Navasota ISD? It's all just a money grab by consol staff and parents that feel CSHS has it better. Also look at where those on the board are zoned, and you will see it's almost 90% consol HS. Notice they want Indian lakes, saddle creek, and other higher value neighborhoods at THEIR SCHOOL- AMCHS! If they keep it up they will really kill the sense of community many have, and I predict most of the affluent they try putting the screws to might go the private route or move to a better administered district. Who would have ever thought Bryan, Anderson, and Iola could beat out CS and have better predictability?!

Demographics, money grab, socialism, etc.

Booster club money for athletics is definitely being taken into account, also.

The bottom line is that money is driving all of their decisions, not what is best for the students or families.

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Option 1 would create a "super school" at AMCHS. It's wrong and unfair to put ALL the highest SES neighborhoods in the district at a single high school: Pebble Creek, Williams Creek, Indian Lakes, Southwood Forest, Nantucket, Saddle Creek, Duck Haven, etc.

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Regardless, option 1 would still leave AMCHS with MORE low-ses students.

After the last few stunts from the school board, I can't imagine a scenario where any bond passes.

CSISD is going to have to start tightening their belts.

The board doesn't care about proximity, UNLESS you attend CSHS. In that case, it's a benefit to preserve walking and biking (as in Option 1). But they don't afford that same luxury to consol. In that case, it's best to bus people around in the name of comparable composition.

They like comparable composition not because it helps low ses kids (in our district, low ses kids in all demographics perform below the state average), but because it makes the "community" feel good and all schools then look equal because the low test scores don't bring down a school's average. The newest board member said in the last election at a forum that "[low ses students] are everyone's burden to bear." That's the ugly truth with why comparable composition is used here. Balance schools, balance test scores, stabilize real estate prices, constituents feel generous and are happy. Until they have to start transporting their kids across town.

The reality is that Option 3 is the only option that does both. It balances comparable composition, and it has the best proximity breakdown (even though some walkers will have to go an additional 3 miles to Consol, that's more logical than creating new bus routes for neighborhoods in the south) while balancing growth.

They are likely not to pick it though for 2 reasons. 1) Stupe is EXACTLY right, once they are able to prove that comparable composition is satisfied, they go after money for booster clubs to help athletics. Cougar Club has a lot more money than Tiger Club apparently, and the 5/7 board members that live in Consol zones are tired of hearing it. Emerge Option 1. Some long-time residents of this community will do anything it takes to restore Consol to its former glory. And 2) the developer of Margraves is going to be upset about it, and from what I understand, the board will do what he wants.

Option 3 is the worst option because it relies heavily of future development of Margraves, rental homes, and town houses with the highest projected SES differences. Option 3 is exactly the type of options presented to the committee last time and the zones didn't even last 2 years (in reality, only 1 year because it was implemented this fall). The projected starting numbers for the fall were way off - Consol stared with fewer students and CSHS with more. You have to rezone neighborhoods with single family homes already on the ground and stop avoiding neighborhoods south of Fitch. It was painfully obvious to the committee, but they couldn't do it. Now the board has to do it.

The best options are 1 for the long term and to not rezone again until the 3rd HS is built (it also gives CSHS the long term development of Margraves) or 2b because it takes the fewest kids from the NE quadrant of CSHS current zone. Those kids should not have to ride a bus to Consol when they can walk to CSHS. If they go with 2b they need to just get rid of those few neighborhoods the demographer picked up and give them back to CSHS. Plus, the expansion of the charter school into the HS ranks will take some kids away from the district. How many is anyone's guess.

Finally, do people realize that Consol and CSHS are separated by 2 miles? That's really not a lot of extra driving.

If you look at the forecasts for Options 1 and 3, Option 3 is the one that forecasts MORE students at Consol and LESS students at CSHS, and there's a difference of almost 200 students (with Consol having the larger population) after 10 years. Option 3 is the ONLY one that sends the right amount of kids to Consol. Option 1 has them basically being equal again in 9-10 years. Yes we will build out CSHS and yes we will build a 3rd high school, but looking at numbers TODAY, it's the only one that makes sense. We can make guesses about apartment buildings and margraves, but if we were going to do that, why did we pay for the demographers? You either use the numbers and you accept that they aren't perfect or you don't use the numbers and go with feelings and hunches.

As to the charter, I'm willing to bet if any of those south neighborhoods get touched, then they may as well throw out the "low" impact from the charter school numbers, and switch to the "high" impact numbers (which we haven't seen). Because those are the neighborhoods that WILL use the Charter school or private schools, and then Option 1 falls apart, and we rezone again in 2 years because Consol is at 85% again.

Regarding Margraves... some posters are concerned that that poor developer won't be able to sell homes at the price he wants so Magraves should be zoned to CSHS?! I hope I'm misunderstanding the comment because that disgusts me. Let's think about the kids and families (and maybe even current home values) rather than this poor developer that may not be able to get the prices he wants. That should affect zoning decisions? Wow!

I think someone mentioned this a while ago but what is holding us back from having back to having one high school.. have 9/10 at a school and 11/12 at a school.. we could just call them the cats and be maroon and purple.. other major schools have adopted and I know it would be a challenge with extracurricular activities..