You would think that by building a big shiny new school Blue Valley people who lived around it would be happy. Not in JOCO. We have the whole country....uh the whole world....convinced that Blue Valley Schools are among the best available anywhere but parents still can't be happy.
I've been following this new school boundary issue and it was resolved last night at the School Board meeting. Parents are upset that their kids will have to leave Cedar Hills Elementary and go to the new and yet un-named school. In addition, the kids will have to go 1.8 miles further to get to the new Southwest High school.......oh the unjustice of it all. One father citing safety commented that their child would have to drive an additional 650 miles to high school each year. I'm guessing they will be safe enough driving that Mercedes you bought her for her 16th birthday.
So let me get this right......parents from Cedar Hills Elementary feel wronged because their kids will have to go another new Blue Valley Elementary school that is just as beautiful and just as loaded with stuff and about the same distance away as the one they left. It is like some people have nothing better to do with their time.
Just for the record, I'm speaking with some experience on the issue so before you write me and tell me I don't understand or wait until it happens to your kid....blah, blah....it did already. Our neighbors threw a fit as well. The old school according to them was just so incredible, the principal so incredible, the school community so nurturing that they just couldn't stand the idea of being sent to the new school. It was so unfair. So they fought and fought for exceptions, for being being grandfathered in if they had an older sibling that went there......on an on and on. We were excited to go to the new school. The old one was pretty crowded....isn't that why they build new schools anyway?
Long story shorter......we love the new school. It is such a great place. It is such a great place and now it is the envy of those who didn't go. Sucks to be them.
I can't see myself bitching and moaning over which rich, has everything school my kid goes to these days. Can you imagine how this looks to some poor mom living over in KCMO at about 40th and Troost? Seriously. Her kids still might not have books. It is pathetic and sad.
Laura Butler commented that they were told 5 years ago the last boundary change was "pretty much permanent" and is upset they are moving it again. Uh, Laura....how many years are your kids in elementary school? Is it a right that all your kids should get to go to the same school? She admitted it was an emotional issue for her......really?
Other parents said......make the kids from Liberty View and Morse go to the new school....why their kids and not yours? You make no sense. Spoiled JOCO parents create spoiled JOCO kids who think nothing really applies to them.
The parents ask for so many exceptions that what they really want amounts to open enrollment...pick your school.
Why are Blue Valley Parents so lame when it comes to this stuff?
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