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Monday: County committee to consider school district transfer request
Original post made on May 3, 2015
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, May 1, 2015, 11:44 AM
Comments
Posted by Mary
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on May 3, 2015 at 12:24 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on May 3, 2015 at 12:24 pm
For goodness sake, let those kids transfer to the same school their friends across the street attend. This is not about the schools, it is about the children. A mistake was made in 1983. It is beyond time that this mistake was corrected.
Posted by Elsie
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on May 4, 2015 at 12:45 pm
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a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on May 4, 2015 at 12:45 pm
Elsie is a registered user.
Thank you, Mary, for your sagacity.Sometimes the legal gets in the way of the logical. Give the kids a break!
Elsie
Posted by Jeff
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on May 4, 2015 at 2:22 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on May 4, 2015 at 2:22 pm
How ridiculous that kids are being victimized by school board politics. Correct the mistake. Do the right thing. Say YES to the petition.
Posted by Margo
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on May 4, 2015 at 7:26 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on May 4, 2015 at 7:26 pm
It occurs to me that 101 is a logical boundary between the school districts. Kids should be going to school in their neighborhoods, walking and biking as much as possible and sharing classrooms with their friends and neighbors. The resistance on the part of school boards has to do with prestige and money, Menlo Park doesn't want to take on schools that might not be doing well---it makes the district performance look bad! Ravenswood doesn't want to lose the revenue, although they would also be losing schools and kids, so would need less revenue.
In any event, the middle of a street makes no sense as a district boundary.
Posted by Not Quite 101
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on May 4, 2015 at 8:35 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on May 4, 2015 at 8:35 pm
What many people don't realize is that there's a K-8 Ravenswood school on this side of Menlo Park. It's called Willow Oaks School and it's on Willow Road between Coleman and O'Keefe, just a few blocks away from the O'Connor site. If you are using 101 as the boundary to determine where kids should go to school, what do you do about this particular school? It serves about 600 children from an area of Menlo Park running mostly between O'Keefe to 101 but it also jogs a few streets over into EPA, and it stretches into a part of Palo Alto along 101.
Posted by carab1n3r
a resident of Encinal School
on May 4, 2015 at 10:01 pm
a resident of Encinal School
on May 4, 2015 at 10:01 pm
"Kids should be going to school in their neighborhoods"
There are both RSD and MPCSD schools in the Willows.
I and some nearby friends in the Redwood City School district are very curious about the results of this petition. If it is approved, there is a neighborhood with a similar configuration that will request a move from RWSD to MPCSD.
Go, go O'Connor! We wish you good luck!
