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Parents urge Wake County BOE to grandfather students as rezoning plan draws broad opposition
Summary
At a public hearing on proposed enrollment/rezoning changes, dozens of parents and residents urged the Wake County Board of Education to grandfather current students, citing repeated reassignments, long bus rides and disruptions to community stability.
Dozens of parents and residents urged the Wake County Board of Education on Oct. 21 to withdraw or revise a proposed enrollment (rezoning) plan and to include a grandfathering provision for existing families.
Speakers during the public hearing said the plan would move current families into different schools, disrupt students’ social and academic connections and impose logistical burdens on working families.
Neeraj Mathur told the board, “Please stop using your time and resources to move families into underperforming schools. Please instead use those resources to improve the quality of the schools so that more families will want to move to areas already bound to those schools.”
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