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Santa Rosa Drops Plans To Rezone Nine Schools
April 24, 2015
After a public outcry against the idea, the Santa Rosa County School Board voted late Thursday night to kill a plan that would have rezoned nine schools. The measure failed on a 3-2 vote after numerous residents, mostly from the Ashley Plantation subdivision, spoke out against the plan.
The rezoning proposal would have changed the attendance boundaries for Avalon Middle, Bennett Russell Elementary, Chumuckla Elementary, Central School, Dixon Primary and Intermediate, Pace High, Pea Ridge Elementary and Sims Middle.
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9 Responses to “Santa Rosa Drops Plans To Rezone Nine Schools”
@Mary:
“Money talks or money walks. Wouldn’t it be grand if parents considered what’s best for all children and not just their privileged own?”
Can you please explain what you men by “their privileged own?”
“I find it interesting that so many living in Pace work in Pensacola…but they surely don’t want their kids in Escambia County schools.”
That’s one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that they are working in Pensacola (thus supporting the Escambia Co./Pensacola economies through gasoline taxes they pay to enable their commutes and sales taxes for the wares they purchase on the western side of the river) but living in Santa Rosa/Milton (thus supporting SR County schools and other infrastructure through property taxes, local sales taxes, etc).
Oh Yea The Santa Rosa superintendent can’t get a teacher contract passed after a year of trying. Something that the teachers really deserve.
You can’t blame parents if they want to send their children to a great school. Santa Rosa does have its share of great schools thanks to basicly two reaxons: Great teachers and great parents. Not perfect but some of the best. What Santa Rosa needs is a change in leadership so it is not faced with this type of situation with overcrowding. Leaders in education plan for the future and work the other county leaders and devise plans to have great schools for everyone. There must be ways to solve this problem besides busing kids 13 miles one way to classes down in size.
I know these parents think that they are doing what is best for their children by keeping them in “good schools,” but when you are teaching 30+ kids in a classroom, you can’t give every kid the attention they need. Even the best teacher can only do so much before the 140 students she has to teach, grade, and care about becomes overwhelming. Honestly, if these overcrowded schools worked harder to verify the addresses of incoming students, they would find that many parents have lied about where they live to ensure placement. Fixing this issue may help. The point is, the student will suffer. Whether the child lives in a trailer park or a fancy neighborhood, voting to make that ok is ridiculous.
If the schools are busting at the seams, you would think that the county would stop approving new subdivisions in that district. The last thing Woodbine Road needs is another subdivision.
I wish those 3 school board members who voted against the rezoning would have been on the board in 2009 when the closure of Munson Elementary School was brought to a vote.
Money talks or money walks. Wouldn’t it be grand if parents considered what’s best for all children and not just their privileged own? I find it interesting that so many living in Pace work in Pensacola…but they surely don’t want their kids in Escambia County schools.
There was a time parents supported their child and the teachers. The result was schools turned out students who put man on the moon with only a sliderule.
Nowdays, it seems parents want to run the schools and the school boards. The resulting turnout is left up to debate. But when did a subdivision start making
decisions for the school district? Did they think things would not change in Santa Rosa County? Were the school board members afraid of losing voters or monetary support from certain housing projects?
Another group of elected officials who lack the backbone to do their job. Maybe the overcrowding issue will solve itself just like the courthouse issue has resolved itself. Oh wait….there is still a desperate need for a new courthouse! Can’t wait to hear these parents complaining when some of these schools are bursting at the seams with more students than what the school will accommodate.