Parents offer own plan for Hamilton County schools

[CMF Newsman]

After feeling ignored by the Hamilton County Department of Education, a parent committee in the eastern part of the county is asking school board members to consider installing portables and using another year to gather growth information before signing on to the superintendent's proposed rezoning plan.

"We quickly discovered that we were not [meeting with HCDE staff] to provide our input to craft a solution but rather our attendance was perfunctory to give the illusion of community involvement," the parent committee wrote in its report.

"...nstead of refuting our concerns with facts and research; they simply told us that they know what they are doing," the parents added.

Four committee members and two other parents met Saturday afternoon in the Hamilton Mill subdivision to discuss their next move in reaching out to board members.

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[apriled]

The boundaries for the school zones have little science and are more subjective. The HCDE central office attitude is not conducive to having meaningful dialogue to arrive at a basis for a new boundary for the zone. I feel certain the parents are correct and the meetings are nothing more than a show for the HCDE staff to later argue that they exhausted all remedies, and outreached to the community or parents. Based upon my own experience with the Bonny Oaks Road empire, I doubt there is a genuine intent to resolve this dispute.