re: #337 nearly-headless smith25

The ideas of Busing lead to the discussion or redistricting. Ideas about this are related to the charter school/voucher issue. We don’t have charters in Lexington KY, but as the school board is working on drawing up new districts this year, there is a push to get them. (State Legislature is split on allowing them). I would never accept or support either in the county. One of the leaders of the redistricting committee came out stating that the main goals of redistricting included attempts to balance the socio-economic levels of the schools more than they are now, but not in an unfair way. The other main goal is school balance of population, and limiting overcrowding. He said that (for the High schools) getting all to between 105% and 120% capacity is key. And that is counting the new HS being built set to open in 2017. Any charter school that exists, does so at the detriment of all other public schools in the district.

In our situation, some families pulled their kids from the public schools and put them in my school.

It had nothing to do with the quality of the education in public schools. IT had everything to do with “OMG! Our children CANNOT go to school with Black Kids”