Next year the School administration will tackle Elementary/Middle School zones. Here is the story in today’s Knoxville News-Sentinel, an excellent article written by Scott Barker. Scott is one of the few over at E.W. Scripps owned News-Sentinel.
Interim Superintendent Roy Mullins has the most bizarre reaction to the proposed rezoning. From the News-Sentinel article: Mullins said the parental laments are similar to the complaints received when school officials rezoned students from Farragut to Bearden and Bearden to West in the early 1990s.
“It’s dramatic up to the vote,” Mullins said Wednesday during a meeting with school board members on the budget. “After the vote, it goes away.”
Brian’s Blog believes from what we have seen in comments here and other places. From emails that Brian’s Blog has received and from the phone calls that the School Board Members and County Commissioners are telling Brian’s Blog they are receiving, this is a bigger negative public reaction than the County Commission appointment process for the term limited positions on January 31, 2007.
County Commission must pass a budget by June 30, 2007. The School Board has requested a budget with more than $13 million in new dollars. With television news reports like this one. It is likely that the spirit of cooperation over conflict may have just ended.
Only time and the election results on February 5, 2008 will tell whether the reaction to the proposal will simply go away after the vote.
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