Cross Creek should remain assigned to Orange Middle/High School. These schools are within walking distance of our homes. Students can safely access school, athletics, and extracurriculars while fostering independence. Moving them to a more distant campus would increase transportation costs, extend commute times, create unnecessary safety concerns, and weaken community connections that neighborhood schools are designed to build. It doesnt make sense to bus them past schools they can safely walk t
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Christopher Mabry
10 min ago
I am signing in strong support of Scenario B because it adheres to the Board's Redistricting Guidelines Resolution on optimal utilization. Scenario C starts Orange High School over capacity on day one (105.8%), guaranteeing another round of emergency redistricting by 2030. We need sustainable, long-term stability for our students, not a short-term band-aid.
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Rachel Getzinger
1 hr ago
Why bus kids across town when they can walk to the school across the street?
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Supporter
4 hr ago
We just moved to Olentangy 2 years ago and part of the beauty was that our neighborhood WAS our schools. The logistics, time, and energy wasted to drag these kids away from Orange and to other schools they didn't grow up knowing and supporting is illogical.
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Jessica Hord
17 hr ago
Any neighborhood right across from a school should remain at that school.
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Jill Bayler
18 hr ago
Please consider keeping Cross Creek neighborhood with Orange Middle and High. My family lives so close to our children’s school that we can literally see it from our front door. It is incredibly frustrating to think that our children could be moved away from a school that is right in our own neighborhood. School boundaries should take into account proximity, neighborhood connections, children’s stability, and the impact on families.
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Kristina Clouse
21 hr ago
This neighborhood is directly across from the orange middle and high school. Redistricting this neighborhood is not logistical for parents with kids nor the kids nor is it logical
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Shirali Shah
1 day ago
Our family has been part of Cross creek for many years. Our neighborhood went through redistrict 10 years ago and our kids and us got adjusted to new schools and have worked very hard to build these relationships. All three schools are logistically so close to home and expecting kids and family to pass these amazing schools and go to another school is not a rational decision. Please don’t add trauma to kids & families who have dreamed of being pioneers graduates and have already adjusted once.
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Bryan Coe
1 day ago
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It doesn’t make sense to have kids that walk to school now needing transportation, which causes a financial need for more bus drivers and the district already has a hard time recruiting drivers.
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Todd Helline
1 day ago
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My wife and I grew up in small towns where we were able to build amazing relationships k-12. That’s tough in a growing district like Olentangy, but it can happen: and it HAS happened in Cross Creek. 10 years ago we purchased our home in Cross Creek because of its proximity to FTES, OOMS and OOHS thinking we could help our own children get a small town feel from our local schools. The families are close, and our kids grew up dreaming of being Pioneers. Let’s keep Cross Creek at home!
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Mike Dilger
1 day ago
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Bypassing a school in our immediate backyard to bus neighborhood children to a distant campus is logistically and financially irresponsible. This proposal unnecessarily increases student commute times, introduces avoidable safety hazards on longer transit routes, and strains the district’s transportation budget with added fuel and busing costs.
Forcing our children past their neighborhood school disrupts community cohesion and denies them the safety and health benefits of a walkable neighborhood
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Leeann Allenbach
1 day ago
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My older child can safely and easily drive to school and my other student can safely walk to school in middle school independently.
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Trish Coe
1 day ago
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Why should kids within walking distance (1/2 a mile) be forced to bus to a different school in the district? This not only puts additional financial burden on the schools, but hardship on the families to provide transportation to extracurricular activities.
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Lauren Jennings
1 day ago
Our children have formed a community with our current middle and high school. This change would negatively effect the relationships our children have formed.
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Andey Karamiants
1 day ago
Convenience for parents to pick up and drop off kids, inconvinience for after schools activities due to further distance to travel, emotional stress to kids going to a different school away from their friends
Cross Creek should remain assigned to Orange Middle/High School. These schools are within walking distance of our homes. Students can safely access school, athletics, and extracurriculars while fostering independence. Moving them to a more distant campus would increase transportation costs, extend commute times, create unnecessary safety concerns, and weaken community connections that neighborhood schools are designed to build. It doesnt make sense to bus them past schools they can safely walk t
I am signing in strong support of Scenario B because it adheres to the Board's Redistricting Guidelines Resolution on optimal utilization. Scenario C starts Orange High School over capacity on day one (105.8%), guaranteeing another round of emergency redistricting by 2030. We need sustainable, long-term stability for our students, not a short-term band-aid.
Why bus kids across town when they can walk to the school across the street?
We just moved to Olentangy 2 years ago and part of the beauty was that our neighborhood WAS our schools. The logistics, time, and energy wasted to drag these kids away from Orange and to other schools they didn't grow up knowing and supporting is illogical.
Any neighborhood right across from a school should remain at that school.
Please consider keeping Cross Creek neighborhood with Orange Middle and High. My family lives so close to our children’s school that we can literally see it from our front door. It is incredibly frustrating to think that our children could be moved away from a school that is right in our own neighborhood. School boundaries should take into account proximity, neighborhood connections, children’s stability, and the impact on families.
This neighborhood is directly across from the orange middle and high school. Redistricting this neighborhood is not logistical for parents with kids nor the kids nor is it logical
Our family has been part of Cross creek for many years. Our neighborhood went through redistrict 10 years ago and our kids and us got adjusted to new schools and have worked very hard to build these relationships. All three schools are logistically so close to home and expecting kids and family to pass these amazing schools and go to another school is not a rational decision. Please don’t add trauma to kids & families who have dreamed of being pioneers graduates and have already adjusted once.
It doesn’t make sense to have kids that walk to school now needing transportation, which causes a financial need for more bus drivers and the district already has a hard time recruiting drivers.
My wife and I grew up in small towns where we were able to build amazing relationships k-12. That’s tough in a growing district like Olentangy, but it can happen: and it HAS happened in Cross Creek. 10 years ago we purchased our home in Cross Creek because of its proximity to FTES, OOMS and OOHS thinking we could help our own children get a small town feel from our local schools. The families are close, and our kids grew up dreaming of being Pioneers. Let’s keep Cross Creek at home!
Bypassing a school in our immediate backyard to bus neighborhood children to a distant campus is logistically and financially irresponsible. This proposal unnecessarily increases student commute times, introduces avoidable safety hazards on longer transit routes, and strains the district’s transportation budget with added fuel and busing costs. Forcing our children past their neighborhood school disrupts community cohesion and denies them the safety and health benefits of a walkable neighborhood
My older child can safely and easily drive to school and my other student can safely walk to school in middle school independently.
Why should kids within walking distance (1/2 a mile) be forced to bus to a different school in the district? This not only puts additional financial burden on the schools, but hardship on the families to provide transportation to extracurricular activities.
Our children have formed a community with our current middle and high school. This change would negatively effect the relationships our children have formed.
Convenience for parents to pick up and drop off kids, inconvinience for after schools activities due to further distance to travel, emotional stress to kids going to a different school away from their friends
Safety for our kids.