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Henrico County Public Schools, Va Redistricting Study 2021: General Feedback As of October 15, 2019 HENRICO COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, VA REDISTRICTING STUDY 2021: GENERAL FEEDBACK AS OF OCTOBER 15, 2019 School affiliation Please provide your questions or feedback related to the process. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and How will redistricting address changes to the coursework for Defense Against the Dark Arts as well as Wizardry Potions? HCPS Central Office This is a test of the feedback form. I repeat, this is only a test. While I understand the need to reduce concentrations of poverty, it is very frustrating to us that we are districted to a school that geographically makes no sense. There are 2 other middle schools closer to where we Brook land Middle live. I hope that you will keep students at their current schools. I went thru a redistricting myself in high school and keeping students who are already enrolled in their current high school (if they wish to stay) should be a priority. Only incoming freshman and those that wish to change schools should be forced to a different high Godwin school. At what grade level(s) will students be "grandfathered" to choose to remain in their current enrolled school, Mills Godwin in the event their address becomes redistricted to a different school? Sir/Madam, Will the school board be given a ranking of each applicant for each school with justification of the ranking or will they just be given one name per school. Do school board members select the representatives for each school in their respective districts or will there be discussions about each candidate by all school board members? Respectfully, Gayton Kendall Currently residence of Sadler road send their kids to Rivers Edge and Holman. County has approved plans to Rivers Edge Elementary and build mixed use urban developments in Innsbrook Area. Has any public hearing been done about the impact Holman Middle of approved developments which is expected to impact these schools and roadway infrastructures? Will rising juniors be able to attend their current high school to finish their junior and senior year if they are displaced into another school during the redistricting effort. The junior year is THE most important year for academics and athletes (that want to potentially play in college.) The AP load the junior year is the toughest, and trying to adjust to a new school AND take a large number of AP classes while adjusting to a new counselor to look at colleges will be very tough. In addition, student athletes have already established themselves at their schools. Having to change schools their junior year would leave them at a disadvantage in regards to playing time and player/coach relationships. When will we be provided this information (at the very least) so we can potentially make alternate schooling plans earlier if they will be asked to attend a different school their junior year? Parents with rising 9th graders really should be given this information prior to the redistricting effort Glen Allen High School starting so we can be prepared. Thank you. Gayton Elementary Do those chosen to sit on the Committee receive compensation for their time? My husband and I just signed a purchase agreement for a home in River Mill. The driving factor behind that purchase was the school district. We have invested a lot of money for our home and it is not fair to take that away from hard working families that specifically sought out the neighborhood for that purpose. This is heart Glen Allen High School wrenching. Please do not redistrict River Mill. Both my daughters participated in band at Hermitage HS. I found it frustrating that the county supported music programs with an equal amount of money. The problem is, affluent schools like DRHS, GAHS, GHS, and Freeman HS, have strong band booster programs which can supplement any shortfalls in funding. It is crazy, for example, that DRHS has a semi truck for their band equipment while Hermitage has a very old trailer. DRHS band boosters can afford a semi truck or one was donated by a DRHS family. That kind of support doesn't happen at poorer schools. Even community businesses would prefer to support wealthier communities because they may make more money from the advertising in more affluent communities. The bands are approximately the same size but the outside support is completely different. It likewise didn't seem fair, when GAHS was built, that they got all new instruments while schools like Hermitage had really old instruments. It seemed like they should have shuffled instruments around so all schools had some old and some new. Newer schools like DRHS also have instruments stored in air conditioned rooms while Hermitage has no air conditioning in the music storage room. Lack of air conditioning means more repairs. More repairs means more band booster money which poorer schools don't have. This sort of disparity was also apparent in other parts of the school. For example, the entire Hermitage Theater budget was the same as what GAHS spent on wheely shoes in one of the GAHS productions. Again the booster support is different. The point is HCPS needs to recognize that all schools and their community support are not equal. I think this should be Hermitage High School factored in to some degree when allocating resources. Will a child be able to continue at the school they had already been attending prior to the change if their area is affected? I was happy that I got to remain at Hermitage High after the district change to J. R. Tucker back in the late 1980s. My daughter with be going into 7th grade and my son will be going into 9th grade for the 2021- Pocahontas Middle School 2022 school year. I am praying so very hard that we won't be affected. HENRICO COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, VA REDISTRICTING STUDY 2021: GENERAL FEEDBACK AS OF OCTOBER 15, 2019 School affiliation Please provide your questions or feedback related to the process. When will committee applicants be notified if they are chosen for the Redistricting Committee? When will a Glen Allen Elementary list of Redistricting committee members be available to the public? Rivers Edge elementary is over crowded and as a parent of two students who go there I am VERY concerned. I think you need to look at Rivers Edge when redistricting or rezoning and really it needs to be done sooner rather than later. More and more homes keep getting built in our area, yet ours is the main school that feels the brunt of it. There are a bunch of other schools around including: Shady Grove, Twin Hickory, Colonial Trail, Kaechele, Springfield Park and Echo Lake that are still nowhere near capacity of REES...except CT is close. Kaechele is WAY under, which is just crazy considering it can take much more than it has right now. I just saw we are getting another "learning cottage" getting setup behind the school, which I am assuming means that the enrollment went up even more this year and we are going to be even more over capacity. This is disappointing considering we just got one last year that took up part of the blacktop, plus no plumbing and kids have to go out during bad weather to get to their classes. Also due increasing numbers year after year, REES has to deal with an understaffed front office, lunch room staff, custodial staff. Here are stats I pulled for last year 2018- 2019 and as you can see REES is way above most schools and is one of the highest in Henrico county overall. I have spoken A LOT of REES parents with who have this very same concern, yet nothing is being done by the country, school board, etc. to alleviate it. REES 764 Twin Hickory 581 Shady Grove 684 Kaechele 440 Colonial Trail 692 Echo Lake 546 Karla Rice Springfield Park 678 Checking in about the redistributing committee. I submitted an application many weeks ago and haven't heard anything. I learned from another parent that some sort of email should have come to each person that applied, and I have not heard anything. Thank you, Parent and Community Member Crystal Varner Parker How will you truly address the concentrations of poverty in schools when the majority of the poverty in the county is located at one end? I'm sure your plan isn't to bus students from one end to the other, so can you Teacher really do anything to provide more equity in this regard? Godwin HS, Pocahontas MS, Nuckols Farm ES Are any of my affiliated schools affected by the proposed redistricting? Is there any chance our kids would change from Freeman to Tucker? We live in Monumental Floral Gardens Freeman on Lake Avenue. My daughter attends Freeman- will she be affected by this redistributing? Douglas Freeman Zip code 23226 Deep Run Will Deep Run HS be affected by any rezoning? What I didn't see on the timeline was implementation and what grades it would effect? I realize that is a few steps ahead... as the timeline shown acknowledges "if approved" and "up for a vote", that these details may not be available. But is it possible to give an idea of.... For Juniors returning to school for 2021 - 2022 school year (as this is the year I'm assuming the change is planning to take place - confirmation would be appreciated), would those students be allowed to remain in their home school? Same question for Sophomores. I would expect that Freshman would go to new school boundary, and Seniors would be allowed to remain at their existing school for 2021-2022 year, but confirmation again would be appreciated.
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