The school board has officially approved our inclusion in the new redistricting plan for Ballyshannon Middle School. It is clear that the persistence of our neighborhood regarding proximity and logical bus routes helped secure this outcome. I appreciate the resolve of those who signed because this decision ensures a better …
November 11, 2017
Final supporters
The residents of The French Quarter and Orleans North propose that we be included in the redistricting of the new Ballyshannon Middle School. We live in a community that was built with walking trails and the vision was to have a community where the children can walk to school. There are other neighborhoods in Boone County that have trails to their schools where the children can walk. Our elementary kids will be the only kids not following their peers to middle school and then to Cooper.
I'd also like to include the cost savings in bussing our neighborhood 10+ minutes down the road to OMS, when you have in your proposed maps bussing kids 10+ minutes away to the new middle school. We as a tax paying neighborhood have a right to send our kids to the school closest to our homes. It is more convenient for parents who may have to drive their child to school or pick up a sick child or even getting a child to Cooper for after school sports. I know CEMS offers bus service to Cooper for sports but OMS does not. Players are late for practices because of this. Please reconsider the lines and include The French Quarter and Orleans North.
Thank you,
Residents of The French Quarter and Orleans North
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Reached 100 supporters
September 7, 2017
46 Comments
I live in Ballyshannon and my children will be attending the new middle school. I am signing this petition in support of the families who live in Orleans. The children who live in Orleans should go to the new middle school and remain with the friends they have gone to school with for the past six years.
The districting decision to exclude the French Quarter from Ballyshannon Middle School is very concerning to our family and will definitely play into our future plans of whether or not our children will remain in Boone County Public Schools.
My younger son had to go to a different middle school than his elementary school friends, and even though he was reunited with them in high school he still at age 27 recounts that event as a devastating time of his life. Please allow these Longbranch Elementary students to have consistency with their classmates throughout the stages of their education.
Having our children go to Ballyshannon only makes sense. They are within walking distance if needed. Also, if you have a student in middle school and elementary school and choose to pick up both children, 1 of the children will have to wait 20+ minutes for you to cover the distance between OMS and LBES.
Having our children build relationships with friends from K-5 and then all of a sudden in 6th grade have to start over will be emotionally devastating at a very vulnerable time in their lives. PLEASE do the right thing! We live exactly 1.5 miles from the parking lot to Ballyshannon middle school, and pay Union taxes.
Orleans South should also be added
Traffic on US 42 is awful. Having to drop my kids off at Ockerman today took me 25 mins whereas Ballyshannon is within walking distance from the French Quarter - Orleans. I have a middle school athlete that ran varsity for Cooper as a 7th grader. There is no transportation for her from Ockerman to Cooper daily. It's hard balancing working full time with being a single parent and having children that have to travel so far to get to school. Hearthstone kids - if they were to go to Ockerman - they would have an easier commute. They're closer to Ockerman than we are. They would also miss the majority of 42's traffic nightmare.
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The school board has officially approved our inclusion in the new redistricting plan for Ballyshannon Middle School. It is clear that the persistence of our neighborhood regarding proximity and logical bus routes helped secure this outcome. I appreciate the resolve of those who signed because this decision ensures a better …
November 11, 2017
Final supporters
The residents of The French Quarter and Orleans North propose that we be included in the redistricting of the new Ballyshannon Middle School. We live in a community that was built with walking trails and the vision was to have a community where the children can walk to school. There are other neighborhoods in Boone County that have trails to their schools where the children can walk. Our elementary kids will be the only kids not following their peers to middle school and then to Cooper.
I'd also like to include the cost savings in bussing our neighborhood 10+ minutes down the road to OMS, when you have in your proposed maps bussing kids 10+ minutes away to the new middle school. We as a tax paying neighborhood have a right to send our kids to the school closest to our homes. It is more convenient for parents who may have to drive their child to school or pick up a sick child or even getting a child to Cooper for after school sports. I know CEMS offers bus service to Cooper for sports but OMS does not. Players are late for practices because of this. Please reconsider the lines and include The French Quarter and Orleans North.
Thank you,
Residents of The French Quarter and Orleans North
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
September 7, 2017
46 Comments
It makes no sense for our children in Orelans North to be sent anywhere else but to Ballyshannon. The main road into ballyshannon is directly across the road from one of the entrances to our subdivision.
I live in Ballyshannon and my children will be attending the new middle school. I am signing this petition in support of the families who live in Orleans. The children who live in Orleans should go to the new middle school and remain with the friends they have gone to school with for the past six years.
The districting decision to exclude the French Quarter from Ballyshannon Middle School is very concerning to our family and will definitely play into our future plans of whether or not our children will remain in Boone County Public Schools.
My younger son had to go to a different middle school than his elementary school friends, and even though he was reunited with them in high school he still at age 27 recounts that event as a devastating time of his life. Please allow these Longbranch Elementary students to have consistency with their classmates throughout the stages of their education.
Having our children go to Ballyshannon only makes sense. They are within walking distance if needed. Also, if you have a student in middle school and elementary school and choose to pick up both children, 1 of the children will have to wait 20+ minutes for you to cover the distance between OMS and LBES.
Having our children build relationships with friends from K-5 and then all of a sudden in 6th grade have to start over will be emotionally devastating at a very vulnerable time in their lives. PLEASE do the right thing! We live exactly 1.5 miles from the parking lot to Ballyshannon middle school, and pay Union taxes.
Orleans South should also be added
Traffic on US 42 is awful. Having to drop my kids off at Ockerman today took me 25 mins whereas Ballyshannon is within walking distance from the French Quarter - Orleans. I have a middle school athlete that ran varsity for Cooper as a 7th grader. There is no transportation for her from Ockerman to Cooper daily. It's hard balancing working full time with being a single parent and having children that have to travel so far to get to school. Hearthstone kids - if they were to go to Ockerman - they would have an easier commute. They're closer to Ockerman than we are. They would also miss the majority of 42's traffic nightmare.
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It makes no sense for our children in Orelans North to be sent anywhere else but to Ballyshannon. The main road into ballyshannon is directly across the road from one of the entrances to our subdivision.