Petition For Dunwoody Community Schools

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Target:
DeKalb County, Georgia School Board & Superintendent
Region:
United States of America
Website:
www.dekalb.k12.ga.us

This is a petition to inform the DeKalb County School System where Dunwoody stands on the Redistricting and Consolidation Plan, that will take effect August 2011. DeKalb County has made two preliminary redistricting proposals that affect Dunwoody schools.

The Superintendent is accepting public input and will make her final recommendation on redistricting to the School Board on January 31, 2011. Please sign the petition to show your support.

PETITION FOR DUNWOODY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

1. We do not support the County’s Decentralized Plan as is.

2. The County Decentralized Plan has the following problems:

•Dunwoody Elementary School (DES) cannot accommodate 1,132 students. The cafeteria and gym are comparable in size to Vanderlyn’s. Children will be moved from modular classrooms at Vanderlyn to trailers at DES.

•There is no access to Austin or Vanderlyn for students who live in rental complexes.

•The percentage of renters at DES would be over 60% compared with 0% at Vanderlyn and 0% at Austin.

3. We believe the 4/5 school is an excellent educational model, and one of several plausible solutions. We believe the 4th and 5th graders from Kingsley should attend DES.

4. We believe that limiting access to Vanderlyn and Austin to only homeowners is not acceptable.

5. We believe Dunwoody homeowners should be able to send their children to Dunwoody schools.

6. Modular classrooms are a better learning environment than trailers.

7. The location of the magnet program should not influence fair drawing of school lines in Dunwoody.

8. We believe it is irresponsible to decide to keep magnets where they are before knowing whether it is more cost effective for the County to centralize them.

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