Last nights school board meeting...

It was short and sweet!
> The elementary school level plan for soft redistricting was approved. This will be a good template to observe and see how soft redistricting can reshape the district in capacity issues. The middle school years were deleted from the proposal last night. This does not mean capacity will not have to be addressed ever. They will look at middle school/high school at a later time.
> This is proactive to be in compliance with capacity laws by 2013. I certainly understand that other school districts will put this off for a while and have bigger issues later. The school board has not been getting many positive comments from us but give them a pat on the back for starting on this early. With that said, my position stays the same, we have schools right here in PSJ that our kids deserve the choice to attend.
> Mr. Hughes qouted numbers of over 500 PSJ students who choose to go to other schools plus close to 200 students who come into PSJ for school. So the swap is 300 students, that are not in PSJ schools but reside in PSJ.
> Well, we have a charter school right here in PSJ, how many of those 500 students attend Charter Campus on Curtis? Those students will be moving to 7th grade too, they will need a middle school right here.
> Sculptor charter is just down the road, how many PSJ students attend there? If things change for them, I'm sure they would be back in PSJ.
> New homes being developed north of Kings HWY on Grissom, of course they are zoned for Titusville but once Jackson is at 100% capacity the next closest school is going to be Space Coast.
> The valid compromise of building classrooms was on the table, parents of elementary aged students do not want to lose that option.
> Still questioning the school board numbers on why this "first time" home buyers community is declining. Perhaps our larger numbers of home school and charter students here in PSJ are why they think we don't have the students. I don't want to lose site of the question Ms. Kershaw asked at the workshop. "Is there historically a bubble of students?" Perhaps there is an exodus of students out of Clearlake for 7-8 to PSJ. WHAT causes the bubble? Do students out of area have a new PSJ address in 7-8 grade only?
Just a few things to think about!
Now we can focus on Odyssey of the Mind competition-woo hoo.