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Despite concerns over crowded classrooms, board expected to vote to leave current district map alone
By Gina Mace
Special to the Beacon Journal
Published on Thursday, May 07, 2009
CUYAHOGA FALLS: It looks like the parents of DeWitt Elementary School students can put their fears to rest.
When the Cuyahoga Falls Board of Education meets May 18, members are expected to vote to leave the current school boundaries as they are.
Board Vice President Therese Dunphy acknowledged that Falls residents have an affection for their neighborhood schools.
''There's a sense of community with the building they're in,'' she said.
Concerns over crowded classrooms at DeWitt and Price elementary schools, along with an expected state mandate of all-day kindergarten by 2011, prompted the board to look at elementary school boundaries.
The district map was last changed in 2005 when Newberry Elementary and Sill Middle schools closed.
The news of the change of heart among the board comes on the heels of a Tuesday meeting with parents and residents.
The plan would have sent 63 DeWitt students from the far south side of the city to Preston School — two miles away. About 35 students from Price would have been transferred to Silver Lake Elementary.
Gary Davis, whose second-grader attends DeWitt, was among those to raise concerns with the plan.
''This seems like more of a quick fix,'' he said. ''It doesn't look into the future for Cuyahoga Falls.''
Superintendent Edwin Holland said planned housing developments in the Howe Road area could mean more students for Preston.
Board member Kellie Patterson wondered what those extra students would mean for the 63 displaced DeWitt students.
''What are we going to do, tell the kids to go back to DeWitt?'' she said. ''We need to look for something sustainable.''
Board member Dave Rump said he would have a tough timesupporting moving kids to the other end of town.
''I would like to see us take more time and look at other possibilities,'' Rump said.
Therese Dunphy said safety of the students is a major concern — especially with a plan in the works to eliminate busing at the two-mile mark.
Board President Barb Gunter said she plans to name a committee of board members and parents to look at the current boundaries and alternative solutions in anticipation of beginning all-day kindergarten.
Parents interested in being appointed to the committee should contact Gunter by mail at the board office, 431 Stow Ave., Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221, before May 18.
CUYAHOGA FALLS: It looks like the parents of DeWitt Elementary School students can put their fears to rest.
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Posted 12:51 PM, 05/07/2009
You would like to think the board has listened to the people and acted accordingly. But my faith in them has diminished to the point that I believe they are meerly playing us all for fools and will use this pathetic gesture as a facade for the next unneeded levy. Oh look, look, see how much we care.... these antics make me sick.
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Posted 01:24 PM, 05/07/2009
I live in Price School district, and it is a 5 min or less walk in a residential neighborhood, but they were thinking of having my street switch to Silver Lake Elementary which is a 1/2 hour walk with most of it along a busy roadways, Rt 59 and Bailey Road. If they do not have enough kids at Silver Lake (as they claim), then close the school; or else send kids there that are already being bussed to that school.
I am happy that common sense won out this time. . .at least for now.
