Parents Voice Redistricting Opposition by Email

Parents of students living in three Paulding communities expressed via email their desires to see proposed middle school redistricting maps altered to keep their children in the same middle school attendance boundary.

Dallas-Hiram Patch received Tuesday emails from 16 individuals, with the emails containing a letter expressing parents’ reasons against a redistricting plan that would move their students out of the attendance zone of McClure Middle School and into that of East Paulding Middle School. The majority of the emails had the subject line “Paulding Community Opposes Middle School Redistricting.” Dallas-Hiram Patch was copied on the emails that had been sent to Paulding School Board members, school district officials, state education leaders and other news outlets.

You can see the letter in its entirety in the PDF file attached to this article.

The concerted effort from concerned parents came nearly three weeks after () that focused on maps that had been revised following .

The school system is going through the redistricting process with its middle schools as officials , which . Redistricting is being utilized to fill the new school and relieve overcrowding in some of the district’s existing middle schools.

Paulding School Board members are slated to consider a final middle school redistricting plan at their Feb. 14 meeting.

Dallas-Hiram Patch will continue to follow this issue as it develops.