Comments on: More feelings on Knox County School Rezoning

By: Doug McCaughan

Doug McCaughan — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:14:11 +0000

The rezoning was full of poor decisions. Many of the choices were made to try to make Austin East viable and unfortunately the rezoning is in no way going to help Austin East.

Economics played a big role in the rezoning. I think shuffling people across town to create economic parity is as wrong as shuffling people across town because of race.

Stay informed. Stay involved! Talk to your school board members. The high school rezoning will be redone in 5 years. In 5 years maybe we can fix this problem.

Is anyone taking note that the middle and elementary school rezonings are occurring after elections?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:20:20 +0000

I live 1 mile behind Bearden High School, yet am zoned to West High? Seven miles away… Go figure…

By: More feelings on Knox County School Rezoning

More feelings on Knox County School Rezoning — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:56:27 +0000

[...] More feelings on Knox County School Rezoning [...]

By: jonathan hickman

jonathan hickman — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:09:16 +0000

I’ll tell you one thing. No, I’ll tell you two. Three if you could my telling you that I’m going to tell you.

Anyway, a certain amount of adjustment is always necessary and always will be painful. It would go better if it was completely apolitical, which it can’t ever be and I’m sure isn’t now. But demographics change, and there should be consequences to that. Also, with such a complicated system, mistakes are sometimes caught only after time, and they should be correctable. So theoretically, an occasional alignment is good.

Also, my neighborhood – Old North and Fourth & Gill – has long been zoned to two different high schools (part of Fourth & Gill went to Austin East & the rest went to Fulton). So there’s at least one example of a positive change because of the rezoning.

Fwiw.

By: AT

AT — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:04:51 +0000

Well said.
The asinine thing with this is that it really solves no problems, but can completely screw with the student. Moving to another school in high school is bad enough, but when the only reason is “because the Man says so”, it doesn’t make it better.

By: jonathan hickman

jonathan hickman — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:57:37 +0000

Oh, definitely! I wasn’t trying to make an argument for y’all going to West.

I guess I was maybe trying to look at the bright side or something.

Can you get a transfer since Tommy will be at Bearden, or would they just want y’all to suck it up for a year?

By: djuggler

djuggler — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:54:50 +0000

We are closer to Bearden than West. I have had many parents say West has great teachers and the school has improved. However, I am very pleased with Bearden Middle (BMS) and Bearden High (BHS).

By: jonathan hickman

jonathan hickman — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:45:35 +0000

Wait, aren’t you a lot closer to Bearden than West? Or are you kinda in the middle.

And I thought West was the preferred school over Bearden these days.