Let's just come up with a list of terrible decisions by this board because I'm starting to lose track:
1) built a bright shiny high school that's 2 miles away from the old high school. Genius.
2) irritated PC and east side by not zoning them to the bright shiny new high school. Oops.
3) failed to predict that CS would grow south rapidly (really?)
4) hired demographers and paid them a TON of money SEVERAL TIMES to generate data that ALSO didn't imagine that CS would grow south
5) DIDN'T FINISH BUILDING the bright shiny high school and now it's is too full, gotta rezone obviously
6) botched 2016 rezone by failing to use accurate data from the inept demographers, and Jochen and Wesson meddled in the process WAY too much, leading a committee of 30 volunteers on a goose chase with an ineffective conclusion
7) continue to allow exceptions and transfers to CSHS, further adding to capacity issues
8) create FC Local, a horrible, flawed piece of policy that, hmmm, gives MORE power to this group to "fix" the problems that they created. Allows rezoning EVERY YEAR if "triggered". FC Local zones based on DEMOGRAPHICS...that's RACE/ETHNICITY to the layperson. Uses low SES numbers to cover up that fact, but the policy (it's a great read btw), says DEMOGRAPHICS. Could that potentially come back to bite them? Who knows.
9) REBRAND the middle schools at great cost to the tax payer, so that it's easier to rezone in the future because no one will be attached to one school over another (again, really?). Dissolve "purple" and "maroon"
10) gotta fix the over capacity, right? And we gotta make east side happy, they've had such a "burden" so long. So let's throw some dumb ideas out there, and laugh our way through the meeting so that we can say that we satisfied our own FC local policy. In reality, we just want to hit fast forward and get to the good stuff - rezoning!!
11) throw up a gazillion maps, with pluses and minuses, and options, and lots of numbers that we've already established are bogus.
12) have a community forum, go through the motions of reading hundreds of form emails from east side, and ignore the pleas to be generous with grandfathering.
13) throw up some more maps, with more pluses and minuses.
14) VOTE TO APPROVE THE MAP AT THE MEETING WHERE NEW MAP IS REVEALED TO EVERYONE. Did you happen to see that map first before it was revealed to the public? I sure wonder how you came to a decision so fast...
15) VOTE AT THAT SAME MEETING to be super stingy with grandfathering and screw over a net 58 8th graders because that (in theory, not in reality) messes with your numbers.
16) start indoctrinating the 8th graders by taking them on tours of their new schools, and having principals, coaches, teachers call the parents to convince them to go ahead and move, and that all will be alright.
17) go through the motions of having ANOTHER meeting, but the basic goal is to dig heels in, and revote that they know what's best for 100+ 8th graders. Stare the 8th graders in the face, and tell them that they are just numbers. Also say, "go get exceptions for transfers", and don't you dare defy us again
18) Cancel the chance for any transfers.
19) laugh at the sobbing 8th graders and their parents at the end of your fake meeting and say "Hahaha! what are they gonna do to us now!?!" and "it's okay to cry, my kids cried too, you will get over it".
What did I miss? I mean, I feel like this process was a fantastic representation of superior behaviors from elected officials and a highly paid school district administration.
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