To: To be delivered toDr. William Carnes, HSE School Superintendent
Deer Path Opposition to HSE Redistricting Proposal
The current redistricting option splits our neighborhood community into 3 different sections and/or sends our children to completely different feeder schools from current state, some of which are as many as 6-8 miles from our neighborhood and would involve long bus times and lack of easy access for families. We believe that these proposals will impact our children in a negative manner and we ask that the committees re-evaluate these proposals to (a) ensure our neighborhood is kept whole and (b) create greater consistency in our children's educational experience with current feeder structure versus the newly proposed options. We ask that the committee keep the current split in Deer Path with the students being divided between 2 elementary schools and keep ALL sections of Deer Path (Deer Path, Enclave at Deer Path and Meadows of Shelbourne at Deer Path), versus the subdivided comparison data being utilized by the committee, going to the same Intermediate and Junior High schools with all students feeding into Hamilton Southeastern High School.
Why is this important?
As part of the HSE school redistricting initiative our neighborhood has been proposed as the only one that will be split into 3 different schools. In addition, the schools proposed for our children are a wholesale difference from current state and involve much longer bus times and 2-3x greater distance from our home. Especially at the intermediate/junior high level, it is so important that kids can stay together as a group that feed to HSE. Right now, all the options have our kids going to schools that funnel to FHS (in some cases a 65/35 split which is entirely unacceptable) when our children will be sent to HSE HS.