Letter: A letter to the 833 school board

My family has moved to location W-34. My children (twins) are in kindergarten and, per the new district plans, will be attending Liberty Ridge, Lake Junior and Woodbury High School.

To us this means eight years of going to school with neighborhood friends and high school with an entirely different group of kids.

I was hoping someone could give me a reasonable explanation of how this could happen with a schema of neighborhood school planning.

As most people would be aware, children begin to relate to the neighborhood high school setting very early in life.

When I examine the effect of the planning accomplished here, on my family scenario, I see politics, not reasonable planning.

For my family and me, it has nothing to do with what school and everything to do with whom you go to school with.

As adults, we are expected to make sure these opportunities happen for our children. What is happening to the meaning of neighborhood and lifelong friends?

What are we up to here?

Tony Hoops

Woodbury

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