Final Redistricting Public Forum Set for Wednesday

Residents are invited to join the Cobb County Board of Education and Cobb County School District officials on Wednesday for the final south county redistricting forum. The meeting will be held at at 6:30 p.m.

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Under the last proposal, and its students attend the new, larger , which is to be completed in time for the upcoming school year.

District officials would like to hear additional input from parents, whose children attend the affected elementary schools. No final decisions have been made regarding the proposed redistricting plan.

In addition to providing input at Wednesday's public forum, parents can submit comments on CCSD's public commenting wall or by emailing redistricting@cobbk12.org.

After reviewing the input from the community, district officials will develop a final proposed redistricting map, which will be presented to the BOE for a vote in February 2012.

Here is a sampling of comments left recently on the CCSD redistricting commenting wall:

Keep Clarkdale Together | Clarkdale
Please consider keeping all of the Clarkdale families together. These families and students have been through so many transitions and have shown flexibility over the past two years. The excitement of being able to be together in a new school has made the sacrifices that have been made worth it, but now there is a possibility that some of these students will not attend the new school. Clarkdale has more than enough room to accomodate the few neighborhoods that have been redistricted to Austell. Please consider keeping all of the Clarkdale students together.

Patricia Maya-Salem | Clarkdale
We live in the C4 area ( Cureton Woods - Austell) and for the past two years have been waiting for the brand new Clarkdale Elementary school to be completed. I have a child currently in 1st grade and a second child joining Kindergarten next year. My kids have been waiting as much as everyone else for their brand new school. We drive by every week to check on the progress of the school and comment on what has been done. It would be unfair at this point to take this away from my kids and the kids in this subdivision. I understand that a little over 40 children would be affected by this change, which in a way makes this change unnecessary. I don’t believe that 40 children will make any difference, more so at this stage that Clarkdale has enough space to take these kids. We, at Clarkdale, are family. We have gone through similar experiences since September 2009 and thus deserve to stay together. Our teachers, school staff and students see themselves as “one”. Please don’t break them at this point.

Frustrated | Austell Primary
Does it really matter what we think? The district will ALWAYS do what they want to do.