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URGENT URGENT
URGENT URGENT
NOTE: If your child is in the 4th - 8th grades, this directly and IMMEDIATELY affects you them. Your attendance is needed on Monday 10/15 at 7pm at the ARL bldg (next to BOE on Rt. 108) to attend the next meeting of the High School Boundary Line Advisory Committee (BLAC). Please attend and where a Mt. Hebron gold shirt to unify the Mt. Hebron community. Here's why: The BLAC committee narrowed the 4 redistricting plans down to 2, and David Drown (DOE) will make changes to those 2 and have them ready for the Monday night meeting. The problem is that at 10:30 at the last BLAC meeting, someone threw out the idea of a "Nomad plan" that would move the least amount of kids. With this new plan, students would be redistricted from only 2 schools instead of all the county high schools. Those 2 schools would be MTH and River Hill. The bright idea was to take those students who will be going to the 12th high school, (which is proposed to be at MT. View and the proposed students to attend it are those of us west of Bethany Lane) and put them at Reservoir in 2002 until the 12th HS opens in 2005!!! This would include the approx 500 students from MTH that live west of Bethany Lane -- basically that would be Waverly and Turf Valley. These students would be going from the northern most school in the county, passing by 6 other high schools, and going to the southern most high school. Most likely they would travel on RT. 29 at the most congested time of day. Now, if you have a teenager driving themselves to school, this is not a good situation. This plan had some major cons, like the long distance students will be bussed (the MH bus hits my neighborhood at 7:05 am, what time do you think the Reservoir bus would get here -- 6:30??), but there are many pros: not having to move children from all the other high schools who don't want to move and whose parents don't want them to move (these parents have been coming to the BLAC meetings with their red shirts and name tags on). This Nomad Plan pleased the entire audience at the BLAC Tuesday night, and it may become a plan that the committee will submit to the board of ed. Of course the MTH reps on the committee have already stated that they would vote against it, but they are just 2 votes out of 28. Please forward this message to anyone that you want and encourage them to come next Monday (wearing Hebron gold!), or email Scott Robinson (MTH BLAC Rep) at dsmgrobinson@aol.com for more info or for him to forward your thought/ideas/suggestions to the committee. Important Dates to Remember: Oct 23 Public Presentation of redistricting plan @ Hammond HS (question/answer period) Oct 24 Public Presentation of redistricting plan @ Centennial HS (question/answer period) Nov. 1, 2001 at 7:30 PTSA meeting in the media center at MTH, where we will have all the information that has been presented to the communities. Sue |