park twitter thing called us Nike Air Max 97 Uomo Scontate , Residents of Hill City soon will be contained in the highly prized zone for Normal Park Museum Magnet School.
The Hamilton County school board voted 5-4 Thursday evening to affirm a 2007 decision and can include the area of Bell and Spears avenues into Normal Park’s attendance zone. But not before lots of discussion.
A Hill City parent along with a parent of Normal Park students each were given 30 minutes to convey their cases. In most, nearly 200 people — dozens on each side of the issue — packed the school board meeting room.
School board member Joe Galloway brought the Normal Park issue to the board last week, when members voted to hold a special meeting on the issue. The board voted in 2007 to incorporate Hill City in Normal Park’s zone. But in 2010, then-Superintendent Jim Scales said the zone couldn’t widen because of an influx of parents moving into Normal Park’s boundaries.
Scott Shaw, a parent of two Normal Park students Nike Air Max 97 Scontate Italia , said the addition of Hill City students would cause overcrowding. It also indicates fewer magnet students could be accepted in to the school. He explained the magnet process is responsible for bringing most of the diversity towards the North Chattanooga school.
“If you bring in the Hill City people and all the people that include that, you are going to destroy the magnet program,” he said.
Shaw suggested that the recently resurrected debate over Normal Park was instigated by landowners, who hoped that a new school zoning would increase property values.
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He explained there could be no compromise around the issue. In fact, Shaw said the standard Park attendance zone should be contracted, not widened.
“This is disturbing,” school board member Jeffrey Wilson said. “My opinion is it is an issue of class.”
hamilton park twitter thing called us Nike Air Max 97 Italia , Wilson noted that Normal Park students are generally wealthy and not racially diverse.
“I am no more likely to support a course that favors one group over another,” he explained.
Hill City resident Mitta Chestnutt asked the board to help keep its 2007 promise. Currently, public school children in Hill City are bused several miles away to schools in Red Bank.
Living miles away from their children’s school could be a barrier from involvement by Hill City parents, Chestnutt said.
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Chestnutt asked the board to permit the 100 approximately students of Hill City to be a part of Normal Park simply because they, too, recognize the company’s school.
“At the finish during the day, a promise is a promise,” she said.
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The vote Thursday included an amendment that requires a phased-in entrance of scholars. Additionally, it allows Hill City families to carry on with Red Bank schools if they choose. School district administrators were charged with bringing back an agenda to the board on how to phase in students.