Red Clay eliminated Choice Transportation for Red Clay Elementary Schools in 2005. Currently Red Clay Choice elementary students are either being transported to and from their Choice school by parents or taken to the feeder bus stop. This could account for what appears to be re-segregation of Red Clay city schools.
So currently Red Clay middle schools and high schools student are using Choice Transportation. Keep in mind there is no Red Clay middle school within the city of Wilmington. Cab is 6-12 but is a selective school based on an audition test. Keep in mind Red Clay does not have a high school within the city of Wilmington. Again rule out Cab.
So the fact is there is not re-segregation of Red Clay City of Wilmington middle and high schools are there are none! Wait! Stop the presses! What happen to Neighborhood Schools in the City of Wilmington? Somebody really go rolled under the bus. Should Red Clay have a city middle school and high school? Is it fair for city kids not to have a neighborhood middle school or high schools? Is it fair for city students to be bused to the suburbs?
No other school district in the state of Delaware provides Choice Transportation! But no other school district has students not assigned to a high school or requires them to complete a Choice application and abide by the choice transportation rules. Is this fair? Does it discriminate?
Red Clay has two magnet schools that are 100% Choice with no feeder pattern. Theses students will get pickup as close to their homes as possible. Is this fair? Does it discriminate?
Let’s dump the word Choice Transportation and replace it with a preferential transportation policy that is no equal to all students.
My guess in the board vote at October’s board meeting will be 4-3 in favor of eliminating Choice Transportation as we know starting fall 2009.
Kilroy’s prediction! No more than 5 or 6 parents will fill out a green slip to oppose the elimination of Choice Transportation. The Delaware Secretary of Education will stand down. No legislator will attend the board to speak against the proposal. I will be there and speak out particularly for those students with no assigned high school and force to Choice which will force parents to drive them to the in feeder bus stop of that choice.
Judging by the lack of perseverance of those wanting full financial transparency the 4 board members voting for the elimination of Choice Transportation has nothing to worry about in fact one will be vote out of office this coming May. So I guess its early pay back!
This issue is not about the board’s concerns with school finances, far from it!
Do make note the board is voting on the district proposal given by Merv at the August board meeting! This is not a board proposal as they were ask to support it by district administrators! added 8:30 pm Mervin B. Daugherty, Ed.D.
Assistant Superintendent for
Academics
August 20, 2008
“There will not be an attendance zone assignment to Wilmington High School for ninth grade students. Current eighth graders in the Wilmington High School attendance zone have enrollment options for high school selection but must complete a school choice application by the deadline to be eligible for the options. All Wilmington High School attendance zone students will be guaranteed enrollment in the school selected (Dickinson, A.I.DuPont High or McKean) and will be provided transportation according to the Board-adopted transportation plan for school choice.”
Again, in my opinon assigned some sudents to a feeder high school and not all does appears to be discrimination. Then to tell those not assigned the must Choice to a high school then comply with choice transpotation that may create great hardship the by forcing parents to transport their children to the feeder bus stop of that choice school in my opinon should be criminal. Put students in limbo status is wrong and appears to be discrimination.
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Kilroy: If Red Clay is “resegregating” its schools, then Brandywine has been right there w/’em. Check it: No B’wine middle OR high schools within the city limits either! (This will change next year, however, when PS DuPont becomes a middle school.) Brandywine ARGUED AGAINST Neighborhood Schools as a “hardship” and pleaded to keep feeder patterns essentially unchanged for “diversity” reasons. In fact, the feeders haven’t changed much if at all since 2000.
Someone needs to make up their mind. (And I’m not necessarily talking just to you, Kilroy.) Folks like Jea Street just can’t decide whether the NS law is good or bad — good b/c it’ll give more autonomy to city families with their own schools, or bad b/c it’ll “resegregate” too many schools. The problem with the latter argument, though, is that with choice, there is NO de facto segregation. The whole issue is essentially moot. (This was actually the case back in 1978, too, when the Gen. Assembly allowed for city students to attend a suburban school of their choice; of course, the social engineers said “that wasn’t sufficient.”)
Kilroy: If Red Clay is “resegregating” its schools, then Brandywine has been right there w/’em. Check it: No B’wine middle OR high schools within the city limits either! (This will change next year, however, when PS DuPont becomes a middle school.) Brandywine ARGUED AGAINST Neighborhood Schools as a “hardship” and pleaded to keep feeder patterns essentially unchanged for “diversity” reasons. In fact, the feeders haven’t changed much if at all since 2000.
Someone needs to make up their mind. (And I’m not necessarily talking just to you, Kilroy.) Folks like Jea Street just can’t decide whether the NS law is good or bad — good b/c it’ll give more autonomy to city families with their own schools, or bad b/c it’ll “resegregate” too many schools. The problem with the latter argument, though, is that with choice, there is NO de facto segregation. The whole issue is essentially moot. (This was actually the case back in 1978, too, when the Gen. Assembly allowed for city students to attend a suburban school of their choice; of course, the social engineers said “that wasn’t sufficient.”)
Hube I said the following.
“So the fact is there is not re-segregation of Red Clay City of Wilmington middle and high schools are there are none!”
Can’t re-segregation something that is not there re: city middle schools and high schools. So we have force busing for the city kids of all shades and colors.
The bottomline is the Neighborhood Schools legislation was minipulated by each school districts. The State Board of Education is not a legislative body and were charge with approving the plans.
I’ll add to the post copies of the issue with the old Wilmington High feeder pattern students
Hube I said the following.
“So the fact is there is not re-segregation of Red Clay City of Wilmington middle and high schools are there are none!”
Can’t re-segregation something that is not there re: city middle schools and high schools. So we have force busing for the city kids of all shades and colors.
The bottomline is the Neighborhood Schools legislation was minipulated by each school districts. The State Board of Education is not a legislative body and were charge with approving the plans.
I’ll add to the post copies of the issue with the old Wilmington High feeder pattern students
There are no Christina high schools in the city limits either, except Sarah Pyle the alternative HS. All students are assigned to a HS however.
There are no Christina high schools in the city limits either, except Sarah Pyle the alternative HS. All students are assigned to a HS however.