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Henrico County Public Schools Redistricting Study: General Feedback Received from 11/07/2019 to 12/02/2019 December 2019 Timestamp School affiliation Subdivision Please provide your questions or feedback related to the process. 2019/11/07 9:52:57 AM EST Quioccasin Middle School Steveston I prefer option A for Middle School and have no opinion on either High School options. 2019/11/07 I have given feedback once before about not wanting my area to switch from Freeman High School to Tucker. Now that the new high school option B shows this same switch, I'd like to mention again that I am not in favor of that 9:58:06 AM option. We bought our house based on the school districts. Our property value is higher because of being in the Freeman district. I would like my daughter to go to Freeman just like her brother. It also makes absolutely no sense to EST Parent Fort Hill have children who go to Tuckahoe Middle School go to Tucker High School. Freeman is on the same road as Tuckahoe Middle and even within walking distance. 2019/11/07 10:44:21 With the previous six proposals, four kept our Raintree neighborhood intact. Now the two remaining options (A and B) both divide our neighborhood into Godwin and Tucker High Schools. I object to splitting up our community and AM EST Godwin Raintree disrupting the present feeder pattern that keeps our children with their friends and classmates throughout their school years. I am greatly opposed to the boundaries as they are presently proposed. I purchased my home with the schools in mind. From 2007 - 2014 I lived in the area slated for J.R. Tucker. It took me 2 years to find a home to my linking and that I could afford within the Godwin boundary. However, as an African-American teacher and single mom raising a young son, it is important to me to give him his best chance. J.R.Tucker with its 84% graduation rate is NOT his best opportunity. Educationally, the students have been preparing for Godwin High (ranked #33 in Virginia with a 96% graduation rate) since entering elementary school. Taking a handful of students who have been preparing for that level of rigor and competition does them a great disservice without much in return for the county. However, it will reduce opportunities, alter high school experience and quite possibly preparation for college. If you want to increase 2019/11/07 diversity, increase affordable housing or alter your specialty center enrollment. Do not do so on the back of my family and others who chose to live in an increasing more diverse area that has a great high school. Further, as a teacher, I 10:44:53 know that the truth is that grabbing a few kids from a perceived area of affluence is not enough to change the culture of a school. It certainly won't increase ranking during what would be my son's time there. What it will do though is AM EST Pocahontas middle/Godwin High Stonegate have home buyers think twice before buying in this area, and force families to look at other options to educate their children in order to give them their best chance. I respectfully ask you to reconsider these two options. 2019/11/07 10:46:50 I am opposed to both the of the latest redistricting maps, A and B, which rezone Canterbury to Freeman High School. I believe this is goes against HCPS's stated goal of building the neighborhood school concept. Godwin is part of our AM EST Godwin High School Canterbury neighborhood. My son walks home from school daily. We can hear the band practice from our home. SAY NO TO OPTION A AND B. SAY NO TO REDISTRICTING SHORT PUMP! There is no way in hell these Options to redistrict should even be presented! We bought a house in our area because of the proximity to Pocahontas and Godwin after our daughter leaves Short Pump Elementary after the next school year. WE ARE OUTRAGED by this proposal! We are being forced to to either move, send her to a costly private school, or home school her to avoid the 2019/11/07 horrible Quioccasin and Tucker schools. We live within walking distance to both Pocahontas and Godwin and we planned our future here with the assumption she would be going to these great schools!! We work very hard to 11:03:16 purchase the home we currently live in so that we could be within a great school system. A system that works! Now your taking it all away and forcing us into a less than mediocre school system!! This should not happen and you AM EST Pocahontas Cedar Chase should all be ashamed of yourselves for hiring these independent consultants to come in and destroy my family's future and mostly my daughters academic future. In 2019, schools are at the center of creating community more so than any other social group--i.e. houses of worship and even neighborhoods. Henrico has grown fast and furious in the last few decades. The addition of new schools and resources has put a strain on different communities as the County considers new feeder patterns for our communities and schools. There are many alumni of the high schools in the older communities you are choosing to redistrict to different high schools--alumni who specifically chose their neighborhoods because they thought they would be protected from growth of county and new school feeder patterns. The last redistricting plan truly hurt one of our 2019/11/07 strongest high schools in the County, Hermitage. The numbers of students and parental involvement significantly dropped with the addition of Glen Allen only three miles down the road. You just have to go to a football game and see 11:19:01 the sizes of the bands to see the impact. Redrawing lines without considering the impact/contribution of the people attending the school could potentially cause the same problem at Freeman. I recognize that this is not an easy process, AM EST Douglas S. Freeman Pinedale Farms but there are more than numbers involved when building a community. 2019/11/07 11:50:14 AM EST Freeman Candlewood 9503 Chatterleigh Dr 2019/11/07 Edenbury (Oakhampton 12:03:51 Place off Glen Eagles Option B for elementary schools is terrible for our neighborhood. Why are we being asked to DRIVE AROUND another neighborhood to reach a school that is FARTHER AWAY than Gayton!? This makes no sense! Our little triangle PM EST Pinchbeck Drive) between John Rolfe, Pump and Ridgefield is being treated like a red-headed step child and an afterthought, just as we were during the last redistricting. THIS HAS TO STOP! DO NOT put Option B in place for the redistricting. 2019/11/07 12:21:42 PM EST Freeman High School Candlewood Keep Candlewood affiliated with Freeman High School rather than Tucker. WE STRONGLY OBJECT TO THE CURRENT proposal to divide the Raintree neighborhood and take it out of the Godwin school district. These students can currently walk or bike to their local school, and instead you are proposing to BUS them to another more distant school. This seems like a colossal waste of resources, time and money, not to mention being environmentally irresponsible. We purchased our home because it is in the Godwin district, and because our children could ride their bikes to school. Our 2 youngest children chose NOT TO APPLY to specialty centers after attending Moody MS, precisely because they COULD RIDE THEIR BIKES TO GODWIN. Why would you split one of the first planned communities and divide the neighborhood of Raintree? We are precisely .8 miles from Godwin High School and 2.4 miles from Tucker. This makes no sense on any level. 2019/11/07 In the last redistricting debacle, there were several proposals that had huge numbers of kids switching from Pinchbeck and Pemberton. These proposals were intended to address growing class sizes. The projected number of students 12:25:17 that would exceed Pemberton's limits, was 13. In the end, the following year 25-30 children left the school or moved out of the district. Please do not be shortsighted in your desire to address relatively small issues in the short term, and PM EST Godwin Raintree make common sense decisions and KEEP OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TOGETHER. Keep the neighborhood of Raintree together. Raintree was one of the first planned communities and it established feeder patterns for elementary, middle and high school. To break off one corner of the neighborhood in order to bus kids to another school which is further away, 2019/11/07 divides our community . 12:37:08 Our children can walk to Godwin and ride their bikes. PM EST Godwin High School Raintree This is a mistake. 1 Revised: 12/02/2019 Henrico County Public Schools Redistricting Study: General Feedback Received from 11/07/2019 to 12/02/2019 December 2019 Timestamp School affiliation Subdivision Please provide your questions or feedback related to the process. We strongly object to the current proposals to divide Raintree. KEEP OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TOGETHER! I am extremely concerned about the two draft options made available on 11/6/19. Our neighborhood has been voicing our concerns since the topic of redistricting even first came up, and from what we can see our concerns have been COMPLETELY disregarded. The options that we have been asking and pleading for are not even included in these 2 drafts. We are not asking for our selves or for silly reasons....we are asking for the well being of our children.

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