If you implement new boundaries, you will still be back at the table in two years. Operating at 96-98 percent capacity leaves no room for growth. If the southern campus is at 83 percent now, going to 96 doesn't help in the long term, while staying at over 100 percent at the other schools is not conducive to a decent learning environment. I remember a lot of discussion about building a 4th elementary school in the Maurertown/Toms Brook area. Sounds like this discussion is about to take the stage again....
Agree - A school in Toms Brook/Maurertown is needed. Growth in the area, but torn between Woodstock and Strasburg, leaves no community enviroment for our children. Neighbors are torn between two differant schools! My guess is District 5 - Dennis Morris would boo that idea in his only concern seems to be his farm and not the community....
Many school districts have changed boundaries to help with overcrowding. Neither solution is very appetizing, but it would seem to me that redistricting would be the cheapest. If we build a new elementary school, then in time we will need to build a new middle school and a new high school as well. The solutions here are going to have pros and cons and not everyone is going to agree.....just like with everything else in life. I just hope that whatever decision is made, it is made not only with the money to consider, but most importantly, how our kids...
I agree with the previous posters. I live in Strasburg, and am concerned about the crowding in the school, but what options do we have? I seem to remember a plan being on the books for an additional elementary school near Tom's Brook? to help alleviate Sandy Hook and WW Robinson...but let's be real here: we have limited options. We can barely afford the facilities/teachers/curriculum we have now, let alone paying for an additional school (or two or three, as has been pointed out); and I highly doubt anyone will be amenable to a tax increase to pay for it....
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