The district finally backed down from these zoning changes and the magnet programs will remain as they are. I am drained from the fight but I am relieved that we kept these schools intact for now. Keep watching the board agendas because we have to stay ready.
November 20, 2014
Final supporters
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The policies that are currently being proposed by the Clark County School District are that we change the transportation zoning system and that we also balance out all the curriculums of all magnet schools so that every one of those schools will have the same classes. The reason why they are considering these policies is that some schools are overpopulated and others are underpopulated and if zoning changes, then you will be forced to go to your nearest magnet schools and it wouldn't matter because they would all have the same curriculums and thus quality of education. Also, zoning changes will lower the amount of spendings on transportation . This may sound somewhat ideal, however, there are many issues to these policies that will directly affect us students that are enrolled in the current magnet programs of our choice. Additionally, magnet schools were partially created to stop racially segregation in schools--by zoning them again, we risk turning back the clock for thousands of young Nevadans.
First of all, if they make all of the schools' curriculums the same, that will probably mean that schools that specialize in certain areas of academic subjects like Hyde Park and Clark with advanced math and science classes that many other schools don't have, will lose those classes and students who wish to remain living in the city of Las Vegas, but want to exercise their advanced math and science abilities will have to either be separated from their peers and put in a classroom of students that are 2 grade levels older than them or will have to accept the path of all the other students their age in their school. This also applies to other current magnet schools with specialties in different things such as the fine arts (K.O. Knudson, Las Vegas Academy), engineering (Cashman, Roy Martin), Technology (A-Tech) etc.
Gifted thinkers simply can't learn this way. Gifted students need an environment available to them that will allow them to express themselves openly with peers and practice their academic abilities to their full potential at their own fast paced way of learning. We should have the power to choose whether or not we are willing to opt out of school transportation to go to the school of our preference. We have the right to choose our education.
Updates
November 9, 2014
The district has remained silent despite the mounting pressure and that silence tells me everything I need to know about where they stand. It is exhausting to fight for a system that seems intent on ignoring the people it serves but I am not ready to step away from this work just yet.
November 9, 2014
Seeing this grow is exhausting but I am grateful you are staying with me through the slog. It is clear that plenty of people see the danger in these changes as plainly as I do.
Reached 100 supporters
November 9, 2014
160 Comments
Don't faile to raise the ceiling for those already well above the floor.Public education’s neglect of high-ability students doesn’t just deny individuals opportunities they deserve. It also imperils the country’s future supply of scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs.
I do not want this. People say "The education in Nevada sucks!" but this will make it much worse. Hyde park is a collection of gifted and talented students, working in a higher level. I see no justification on why this should be so.
If our zoned school's had the classes we need for our advanced skills, don't you think we would be at our zoned schools? Also, what's the point of a magnet school if they don't provide the bussing for the magnet kids? Aren't the magnet students what make up the magnet part of schools??
Us magnet students come from all over the valley and we don't go to our zoned schools for a reason. Those schools do not attain the amount of rigour we are in need of and therefore, we do not attend them. So, why should the cost of transportation affect our futures?
if this passes the schools of nevada will be even worse. The only reason they want to do this is to save money but wr should be thinking more about the students, who will later be generating the money.
You can't just take kids out of the advanced program they've chosen for themselves. We, as students have a right to choose where we are educated. Taking that right away means disregarding the lives of all of us. If the school district thinks instant changes can be made just because students are hard to buss to school, think about the fact that the student population in Nevada is hardworking, intelligent, and highly determined. The fact that the school district would even propose such an idea that destroys the early academic careers of your students is going so far as to say that your students don't matter against your expenses, and that we are not worth the trouble it is to educate us in the best way possible. Not only is that incredibly ageist, but it is also a reflection of how little the higher branches of education wish to accommodate highly gifted students. It is ridiculous that I even have to voice this.
You can't just take kids out of the advanced program they've chosen for themselves. We, as students have a right to choose where we are educated. Taking that right away means disregarding the lives of all of us. If the school district thinks instant changes can be made just because students are hard to buss to school, think about the fact that the student population in Nevada is hardworking, intelligent, and highly determined. The fact that the school district would even propose such an idea that destroys the early academic careers of your students is going so far as to say that your students don't matter against your expenses, and that we are not worth the trouble it is to educate us in the best way possible. Not only is that incredibly ageist, but it is also a reflection of how little the higher branches of education wish to accommodate highly gifted students. It is ridiculous that I even have to voice this.
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The district finally backed down from these zoning changes and the magnet programs will remain as they are. I am drained from the fight but I am relieved that we kept these schools intact for now. Keep watching the board agendas because we have to stay ready.
November 20, 2014
Final supporters
Please sign using your real first and last name.
The policies that are currently being proposed by the Clark County School District are that we change the transportation zoning system and that we also balance out all the curriculums of all magnet schools so that every one of those schools will have the same classes. The reason why they are considering these policies is that some schools are overpopulated and others are underpopulated and if zoning changes, then you will be forced to go to your nearest magnet schools and it wouldn't matter because they would all have the same curriculums and thus quality of education. Also, zoning changes will lower the amount of spendings on transportation . This may sound somewhat ideal, however, there are many issues to these policies that will directly affect us students that are enrolled in the current magnet programs of our choice. Additionally, magnet schools were partially created to stop racially segregation in schools--by zoning them again, we risk turning back the clock for thousands of young Nevadans.
First of all, if they make all of the schools' curriculums the same, that will probably mean that schools that specialize in certain areas of academic subjects like Hyde Park and Clark with advanced math and science classes that many other schools don't have, will lose those classes and students who wish to remain living in the city of Las Vegas, but want to exercise their advanced math and science abilities will have to either be separated from their peers and put in a classroom of students that are 2 grade levels older than them or will have to accept the path of all the other students their age in their school. This also applies to other current magnet schools with specialties in different things such as the fine arts (K.O. Knudson, Las Vegas Academy), engineering (Cashman, Roy Martin), Technology (A-Tech) etc.
Gifted thinkers simply can't learn this way. Gifted students need an environment available to them that will allow them to express themselves openly with peers and practice their academic abilities to their full potential at their own fast paced way of learning. We should have the power to choose whether or not we are willing to opt out of school transportation to go to the school of our preference. We have the right to choose our education.
Updates
November 9, 2014
The district has remained silent despite the mounting pressure and that silence tells me everything I need to know about where they stand. It is exhausting to fight for a system that seems intent on ignoring the people it serves but I am not ready to step away from this work just yet.
November 9, 2014
Seeing this grow is exhausting but I am grateful you are staying with me through the slog. It is clear that plenty of people see the danger in these changes as plainly as I do.
Reached 100 supporters
November 9, 2014
160 Comments
Each magnet school specialize in different areas and are very different from each other, they can't all be the same and not be unique. It would affect many schools reputations and impact many of our careers!
Don't faile to raise the ceiling for those already well above the floor.Public education’s neglect of high-ability students doesn’t just deny individuals opportunities they deserve. It also imperils the country’s future supply of scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs.
I do not want this. People say "The education in Nevada sucks!" but this will make it much worse. Hyde park is a collection of gifted and talented students, working in a higher level. I see no justification on why this should be so.
If our zoned school's had the classes we need for our advanced skills, don't you think we would be at our zoned schools? Also, what's the point of a magnet school if they don't provide the bussing for the magnet kids? Aren't the magnet students what make up the magnet part of schools??
Us magnet students come from all over the valley and we don't go to our zoned schools for a reason. Those schools do not attain the amount of rigour we are in need of and therefore, we do not attend them. So, why should the cost of transportation affect our futures?
if this passes the schools of nevada will be even worse. The only reason they want to do this is to save money but wr should be thinking more about the students, who will later be generating the money.
You can't just take kids out of the advanced program they've chosen for themselves. We, as students have a right to choose where we are educated. Taking that right away means disregarding the lives of all of us. If the school district thinks instant changes can be made just because students are hard to buss to school, think about the fact that the student population in Nevada is hardworking, intelligent, and highly determined. The fact that the school district would even propose such an idea that destroys the early academic careers of your students is going so far as to say that your students don't matter against your expenses, and that we are not worth the trouble it is to educate us in the best way possible. Not only is that incredibly ageist, but it is also a reflection of how little the higher branches of education wish to accommodate highly gifted students. It is ridiculous that I even have to voice this.
You can't just take kids out of the advanced program they've chosen for themselves. We, as students have a right to choose where we are educated. Taking that right away means disregarding the lives of all of us. If the school district thinks instant changes can be made just because students are hard to buss to school, think about the fact that the student population in Nevada is hardworking, intelligent, and highly determined. The fact that the school district would even propose such an idea that destroys the early academic careers of your students is going so far as to say that your students don't matter against your expenses, and that we are not worth the trouble it is to educate us in the best way possible. Not only is that incredibly ageist, but it is also a reflection of how little the higher branches of education wish to accommodate highly gifted students. It is ridiculous that I even have to voice this.
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Each magnet school specialize in different areas and are very different from each other, they can't all be the same and not be unique. It would affect many schools reputations and impact many of our careers!