More Middle School Redistricting Options for Reading; Superintendent Recommends No Change or Original Option
School Committee to decide Dec. 10 or 17.
A proposal to move the Parker and Coolidge Middle School district lines has come full circle. After developing and reviewing a total of nine redistricting options, Supterintendent John Doherty recommended Monday that the Reading School Committee either maintain the current district lines or tweak the lines for Birch Meadow and Killam students, as he had proposed last month. Eleven people spoke at Monday’s meeting, some emotionally, about the issues they said their child faces as one of a small group of students assigned to Parker or Coolidge while a larger group of their Killam or Birch Meadow peers heads to the other middle school. Parents want to know -- some even before their children enter elementary school -- where the children will …
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Don Key
2:27 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Kathleen, this is about redistricting. Of course it will have an impact on little Debbie or Dan, if they are assigned to a different school than the majority of their former peers, but this can't be about the individual. The negative impact a few students/parents encompass due to redistricting shouldn't deter the town from making the right decision to redraw the lines for the future. The object … more ›