Redistricting Feedback

TOTAL SUPPORT TO A1

Is a short distance from school, lest expensive for buss ride, keep the neighborhood together

SES

I am currently an instructional Coach in a nearby school district and have experienced working in schools with higher SES. In each of these scenarios there in is an unequal balance of students who come from low income families. I understand some don’t want to drive to different schools that may not be close but to really give students an equal education we can’t go with any scenario posted. The schools with 40% or higher will struggle, I’ve seen this with my own eyes for the last ten years and it was the main reason I didn’t allow my daughters to go to the district in which I work. With these scenarios we will see a big gap in students who attend Hawthorn, Union Chapel, Southeast and Line Creek. At that point Park Hill School District will become a District I will no longer send my children to either. All students deserve a quality and equal education and as a community we must do what it takes to ensure this happens. Higher a professional demographer and do what it takes as a community so we all can feel comfortable with sending our children to any school in the district.

A1 works the best for all three of my children.

Criteria for Additional Scenarios

Distance - If this has been changed, great, but can we please, please use bus routes for calculating distance and scoring scenarios! The criteria clearly states bus routes but feel like "As the crow flies" was used for previous final 4 and could have thrown off scoring Maintain Subdivisions vs. SES% - Please create a scenario that skews towards SES% and one that skews towards maintain subdivisions. You need to cover the different ends of this spectrum to provide scenarios that truly give the public a choice to provide feedback on.

A1 and B2 work best for my neighborhood kids

This is Segregation

The gross imbalance of SES is troubling and based on the current proposal, not being addressed by the district. The current proposal unfairly isolates the most at-risk, low-income students to one area of the district at two schools - SE and Line Creek. Dr. Cowherd said PHSD wants to avoid a "haves" and "have nots" situation with redistricting but how is that being achieved with Line Creek moving to 45% FRL and Southeast jumping from 25% to roughly 40%, while schools on the western side of the district are in the teens of FRL precentages? This is not acceptable. Please strongly reconsider the consequences of segregating our district in this manner and the inequities this creates for our young people.

While no scenario is perfect, this comes closest to meeting all criteria.

All A plans negatively impact our neighborhood

B Plans work best for the west side of the district and is our preference. Could also consider small tweaks to best overall plan to improve. (By the numbers this would be B1). All A scenarios completely disrupt lives 10 kids families and have a fractional percentage effect on the big picture numbers. Please consider any B options or make minor tweaks to make more sense to A plans,for example in the Green Acres and Forest Lake subdivisions. Area just north of 76th street and just east of I-435 on the far middle, west of the district. Large land mass area, not densely populated, primarily older empty nest families. No sense to make changes where benefit doesn't outweigh cost. We would like to leave this small amount of kids in their existing schools!

Both A scenarios work for my family. Live in Monticello.

I believe residence of Countrywood Estates should go to Union Chapel Elementary. It is the closest school to our neighborhood & makes sense.

In the Teens and pushing 40% F/R, Balanced?

The "medium" priority of the Board, after shifting HS school numbers to create an even balance; was to "Have a socio-economic balance for all school attendance areas at each level (elementary, middle and high) that is representative of the entire community" . I have yet to see where that fits in any of these proposals. Our Park Hill community has been a great deal of intelligence, experience, heart, passion to the table, meeting after meeting...yet the proposals don't seem to reflect their hard work. We need a better balance of f/r in the elementary proposals. None of these are acceptable.

As I stated with A1. Don't punish Countrywood kids for Jason Brown's decision to force Chapel Ridge into our backyards!!!!

I only support A2 or B2.

I don't like this one. My family is currently zoned at south and it takes 17 mins to drive there. Where as park hill is 6 miles away

When SE students hit middle school, Montebella is the only neighborhood sent to Lakeview over Walden. They will know zero other students.

If Montebella can be switched to Walden for middle school, I like this option, B1, best. The spread between the schools' percentages isn't so staggering.

B1 seems best if we can get Montebella into Walden to avoid the 3x distance and the 95/5 Southeast elementary split into Middle School.

If this can't be changed on B-maps, A2 is preferred.

Terrible for the middle schools

Great idea if you want to make folks drive the farthest to get to their school. Cannot support this!

We would have to drive/bus kids right by Hopewell to get to Line Creek.

We live in Sunpointe Village and have for years. We would have to dive/bus kids by Hopewell to get to our "new school" Line Creek. This would increase drive time and hence make our children have to get up earlier and may even increase distance to their bus stop. I just think that Line Creek is not a viable and safe option for our children. I would hope that board would reconsider this. I know that the "stats" work but puts our children more at risk.

Difference between min and max elementary enrollment is 153. Not much improvement on enrollment balance.

Grandfathering High School Students

I would like to encourage grandfathering of students who are currently attending either high school giving them the option to continue at their current school. Understanding that transportation would be on the student/parents. While this could temporarily increase the anticipated enrollment of either high school under the plan, other opportunities would help ease the pressure including Leads and CAPS. Then within three years, these students are out of the system putting the schools fully into the scenario.

B2 is a Good Idea!!!

The distance from the neighborhood to the school is short, this reduce the expensive s from transportation increase savings with insurance time and keep the kids from mayor changes

Park Hill vs PHS on the western border

With the anticipated development that way, it seems like PHHS' enrollment issues will not go away by having the western edge dip down like that. It makes more sense for that to remain as part of PHS.

Dont like this plan again it seperates timber ridge from all of their elementary friends for middle school for no reason. Makes no sense

When SES > 40% - defined support plan?

While none of the plans do or could achieve SES balance among the elementary schools while considering the other criteria, without a defined (and funded) plan for additional resource allocation (increased ESL teachers, recovery room support, teacher aides, etc.) accompanying these models to counter the disparity, I believe these plans with multiple schools in the 40%+ range should be avoided. All of our kids and their teachers deserve equitable not equal resources, but how that will happen isn't concrete.

25% difference in FRL rates is unacceptable

Plan A isn't equitable nor does it address the issues with high school overcrowding

Just another neighborhood perspective...

I fully respect and appreciate the complexity of a project like this where there is little black and white... and a plethora of variables to tend to. This additional plan would send our children to a different MS than all of the previous plans. However, we are absolutely fine with whatever decision is ultimately made. One thing that gives us comfort is that care has been taken to ensure the equity and consistency of the PHSD brand and experience across the entire organization. This is a wise move because it keeps parents like us satisfied regardless of the school our kids ultimately attend. The only thing I would add off note from a neighborhood perspective, is the fact that this particular scenario features a split down the rather artificial Thousand Oaks/Hidden Valley line between two adjoining densely-populated neighborhoods. TO/HV are in many ways one densely-populated "island" neighborhood surrounded by a relative sea of lightly populated Platte County. We have zero preference for a particular MS. I only wonder whether the advantages gained in that split outweigh the disadvantages. Just an additional qualitative data point to consider.......

Monticello

Monticello should continue to stay at English Landing since it is within walking distance to our neighborhood

SES% DOES Matter - Link below to 1 piece in that puzzle....

Below is a very good article on the Shawnee Mission school district and the various amounts of money that PTAs bring in for their schools. The numbers thrown around in this article are jaw dropping..... https://www.kcur.org/post/shawnee-mission-schools-are-case-study-impact-rich-and-poor-ptas?fbclid=IwAR02RWyLeLgWa1VyuomJ7TSLD7ChSP4X6AkfGkC44gdhp7Cb-WaQfR1JNRg#stream/0

Grandfathering High School Students

I would like to encourage grandfathering of students who are currently attending either high school giving them the option to continue at their current school. Understanding that transportation would be on the student/parents. While this could temporarily increase the anticipated enrollment of either high school under the plan, other opportunities would help ease the pressure including Leads and CAPS. Then within three years, these students are out of the system putting the schools fully into the scenario.

Please keep kids at the schools closest to their homes. Parents with transportation struggles are less likely to attend conferences,

performances, etc. and kids less likely to participate in after school activities when the school is farther away.

B5 is the best for us (and could be tweaked to be the top choice overall. please see below)

Thank you to the committee for putting forward one option that does not move our neighborhood to the 5th closest school, 4 times the distance. So we are in favor of this option. However, obviously there is a lot of feedback now that another large neighborhood is being asked to move, albeit a shorter distance. What if this scenario was tweaked to flip Monticello back to English Landing? I think B5 would instantly become the leading candidate, so please consider that. Thanks again!