of Education to revise the current draft for zoning into Mills Park Elementary Elementary/Horton's Creek
Io Petition the
Purpose
WCPSS Board
Blackstone/Cary Park - Residents North of Cary Park Lake
Neiehborhood
To keep up with growth in NW Cary, Horton's Creek Elementary is to open for 2Ot7120t8. This necessarily means redistricting. However, we in Cary Park and Blackstone find the current draft plan contradicts WCPSS
Board Policy 4L5O.L, which prioritizes allowing students living within the immediate vicinity of a school to attend that school; and minimizes splitting of neighborhoods when developing base attendance areas.
As written, the draft would cut the Cary Park neighborhood in hall allowing some children to continue at MPE and others to be bussed much further away to Horton's Creek. The consequences for those with children at
Reasoning
M PE are serious - a loss of community among our children, removing their ability to walk or bike to school, disrupting the bond among families, and severing the ties to a school many have cultivated since it opened nearly 10 years ago. There are also consequences to those without children at MPE. ln addition to the literal and figurative schism it would introduce, our homes are at risk of devaluation due to their 2nd class status in the neighborhood. Future owners could not enjoy the benefits of a school so close and connected as M PE and this affects us all, We therefore ask all of you, whether you have children at MPE or not, for your support. Please sign this petition so the School Board can appreciate how important it is that we stay connected with each other and our school. Move the current school assignment line to Carpenter Fire Station Road.
humbly request that the Blackstone & Cary Park neighborhoods continue to be zoned into MPE to stay ruithin the current 2076-2017 zone for next and future years. /Ue
Outcome:
Wednesday Sept 9th, 2015
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