School board set to vote on secondary boundaries

...“My perspective on this is we’ve been doing this for almost a year, and we’ve had a lot of opportunities for community input,” board member Jonathan Sessions said. “We had dozens of forums before the maps were drawn and after the maps were drawn.”

The committee even tweaked the maps after the second round of forums, he pointed out, addressing issues such as students in the Gentry, Lange, or Oakland boundaries that would have walked past one school to get to another.

Even if it’s too late to change the lines, Turner said a more lax transfer policy for the small number of students affected could solve the problem. Sessions, however, said creating exceptions for the policy could lead to unbalanced numbers at the schools.

“While individuals might be very glad they got the exception to go to the school of their choice, they might be frustrated by the fact that they’ll be in crowded classrooms and buildings,” he said....