The DeKalb School District has announced their upcoming meetings scheduled to discuss redistricting plans centered around the opening of the new Austin Elementary School facility and the new Cross Keys North Elementary School.
It’s interesting to see that the redistricting meetings for the new Cross Keys North Elementary School are taking place at Chamblee Charter High School. I would have thought these meetings would take place within the community which I would think would be most affected by this, the Cross Keys HS cluster. I’m assuming this means that there are many changes in store for the Chamblee cluster??? Why no meetings at any of the Cross Keys cluster schools?
I was in the middle of the last redistricting effort in Dunwoody. This took place during the repurposing of Dunwoody Elementary from a 4/5 Academy to a K-5 facility. The redistricting decision(s) brought out the worst in our community. It was friend against friend; neighbor against neighbor. I hope and pray the Dunwoody community avoids that same vitriol with this redistricting process. I also hope that DCSD will not succumb to parental and Board of Education pressure to save one elementary schools attendance zone while obliterating another elementary schools attendance zone as was done with the last redistricting effort.
I do encourage all concerned citizens in the Dunwoody, Chamblee and Cross Keys communities to attend these meetings. I am not sure how much your input will sway the district in their redistricting decisions, but at the minimum you’ll be informed and perhaps some feedback (constructive) will be welcome by the district. Yeah, I'm still a glass half-full kind of gal.
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