ChiefHaus said:
I agree under one condition, those neighborhoods being moved do not rezone again to a different high school for at least 10 years. 2b+ only solves that if those neighborhoods stay AMCHS for the near and distant future. Build a 3rd high school out near Pebble Creek and then the east side of town will explode with growth.
I too agree with this, which would zone me to consol. It would also put my child on a bus for well over two hours a day, as punishment for living in a more expensive hood. But, I would be willing to agree with it and take one for the team, if they showed some kind of 10 year plan that made sense. I also agree they should place the next hs Southeast of town, bc it makes sense. Problem is they don't plan on doing that, they plan on putting it off N Dowling road. But lets
pretend our school board starts trying to make decisions for our kids that make sense and puts the next hs east of town. If they are using free lunch and SES "demographics" still at this time, there's no telling what they will do with our school zone map. If you think it's a scary mess now, wait until we complicate it with another school. An east school would likely have the least ses or free lunch kidlets of any, and would for sure skyrocket consols demographics "burden". The funny thing is we are not even looking at the real issue we are faced with. If you combined both current highschools, we only have 5% capacity left. That's around 200 more total students, and they will be full. A new high school will be coming sooner than in 10 years, I would argue the process should have already been started. As long as you use wealth as a way to push people all over the place, it will be a mess that makes no sense. It's only going to get worse. For the record, I have done some studying(thanks Oogway) and don't completely reject the use of certain demographics to help influence zoning. I simply know that zoning a district should start with proximity as the #1 goal, and go from there. That's why over 99% of all other districts in texas use proximity, to give students and family continuity in their education.
GIG 'EM