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[heathrowga]

I just scheduled Amelia's five year well visit. This is where she'll get all of her forms so she can sign up for kindergarten.

We're not sure where she'll be attending kindergarten since all of Roswell, Alpharetta, Crabapple, and Milton is being redistricted.  I know the two schools she's up for are great schools, but I'm not a fan of uncertainty when it comes to my children. Argh.

Anyways, that's my daily dose of first world problems.

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[martina-d.livejournal.com]

Me, too. I practically stalked the principal to get us approved for out-of-district transfer so the kids could stay in the same school after we moved. I'm bad with things being up in the air, especially when it comes to the kids. Luckily, we are going to be in zone starting next year, so I won't have to stalk, er, bother her again. Good luck with the Drs appointment; always fun!

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

Here's the craziness about the redistricting - we're being moved from a school that's 1.65 miles away from our house to one that's 4 miles away. The closer school is a straight shot up the road that I could walk the kids home from in the afternoons (mornings? Ehhhh). The new school is along a very busy state highway.

They built a new elementary school 8 miles north of here and the domino effect is just cascading all around. I'm really not happy with it. Even though the new school is slightly better (read: even more homogeneous and wealthy! Harder to do here in Roswell), I'm not thrilled with this.

[martina-d.livejournal.com]

The school my kids are supposed to be attending is across from the Gwinnett County Detention Center. Yeah. Prison. (!) We were able to get a permissive transfer for the last two years due to the school being under capacity. I have to transport them myself, but it's definitely worth it.

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

Ack! I would definitely be driving the kids with those conditions!

(I feel stupid now complaining. My kids aren't going on the chain gang. I'm just annoyed the redistricting has the kids going over twice as far. It's inane.)

[bouncepogo.livejournal.com]

Are you in the toss-up area between SAES and RNES? Or is there a chance you'll go into HSES? (That's where Julia goes.)

I've been following the redistricting pretty closely, voting, going to the meetings, etc. One of the plans had HSES at over 1000 students and their capacity is 850. It would have required at least ELEVEN more classrooms - WHERE??? They already have 4 trailer-classrooms they use for TAG and ESOL. Any more "portables" and they'd have no friggin' playground!

Uggh.

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

We're south of Chaffin Road, which is now going to go to MPES. We're 1.5 miles from SAES, and MPES is 4 miles from us. All of the neighborhoods south of Chaffin along Crabapple are zoned now for MPES in this weird little tail for MPES. Everybody in these neighborhoods has been sending furious emails, going to the meetings, and it's just like "Wha???"

The school is a good one, but it really screws the girls when it comes to middle school. All of the kids from MPES go to CMS _except_ the neighborhoods along Crabapple which are currently zoned to go to EPMS. The girls will lose their elementary school friends and have to make a whole new gang of friends for middle school, which is just an awful time to have that kind of upheaval.

I'm not thrilled to have them going to an unnecessarily far-away school, and I'm really, really pissed about them losing their friends for middle school, ya know?

[bouncepogo.livejournal.com]

Wow...MPES from where you are? That is insane!!! Yes, that is a really good elem school but I fear it makes kids unprepared for the diversity they'll find at EPMS or even CMS.

I wouldn't be too concerned about the middle school thing just yet...by the time Amelia gets to sixth grade I am sure the lines will be re-drawn again and again. For example, since Katherine is in 7th we're fairly certain that she'll still attend RHS but with the addition of another N Fulton HS in 2012, I believe, the lines will change again and we are right on the cusp of the Milton HS zone...so by the time Julia gets to HS, if we still live in this house she'll most likely be going there.

To give you an example of how frequently the lines have changed over the years, some friends/neighbors of ours in Hollyberry have a son who is a senior at RHS. All while living in that same house, he went to THREE elem schools. He started out at MPES, then was redistricted to RNES, and then to HSES for his fifth grade year, the first year it was open.

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

Isn't it nuts? We're like on this tail for the giant blob of MPES district.

Tom tells me not to worry about middle school yet, but I just think it's nutso the way they are drawing the lines. I'm also worried about the lack of diversity at MPES. The preschool she goes to right now is rather diverse, and I fear she'll lose that at MPES. It's such a country club school, ya know? (Then again, I have mom friends of mine that are freaking out about being redistricted into Mimosa Springs...)

Oh my goodness - that's some crazy redistricting with your friends!