
Transportation for Grandfathered Siblings


We, the undersigned parents of children attending Hawthorn District 73 schools, hereby request the District 73 Board of Education members consider the following:
At the Board of Education (hereinafter referred to as the “Board”) meeting on November 10, 2014, the Board voted to extend grandfathering to the siblings of students going into 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades, beginning with the 2015-16 school year. The main reason given by the Board in their discussion is to allow families to remain together. Later in the same meeting, with less than 4 minutes of discussion, the Board voted to only allow the siblings of the grandfathered students to be transported by school bus through the end of the 2017-18 school year. Starting in 2018-19, the parents would be responsible for transporting their child if they sent them to a school other than their boundaried school.
The signers of this petition request that the Board revise that decision to at least offer transportation for a fee for the following reasons:
Time is of the essence, as many of us have to decide within the next 30 days where to enroll our incoming Kindergarteners. Thank you.



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