Parents press board for grandfathering, delay and bus transfers after rezoning proposal
Summary
Several parents urged the Clarksville Montgomery County Board of Education to grandfather students or delay rezoning to avoid disrupting friendships and to accommodate custody agreements; one parent requested a bus transfer after reporting her daughter was assaulted at Kenwood High School.
Parents and community members used the public-comment portion of the hearing to urge the board to limit disruption from the proposed rezoning, pressing for grandfathering, a delay or immediate transportation help in one case.
An unidentified parent said a child who has attended Rossview for four years would be moved to Kirkwood under staff recommendations and then back to Rossview for middle and high school. "I just don't think that that is going to be good for her socially, or possibly educationally," the speaker said, and asked whether the family could be considered for grandfathering.
Kayla Hankins, whose family lives in the Glen Ellyn attendance area, said her daughter has attended Glen Ellyn since kindergarten and will be in fifth grade next year; she asked whether the district would grandfather the child to avoid another move before middle school.
Benjamin Kreisman told the board he had relied on the current school zone when he purchased his home on Alexander Boulevard and said a joint custody agreement would create a legal burden if his child were rezoned. He asked the board to consider grandfathering affected students or postpone rezoning for at least a year.
Shanika Byrd asked about a bus transfer for her daughter, saying her child had been transferred to Rossview after an assault at Kenwood High School in which "the boy knocked her teeth out." Byrd said she needs a bus route to Rossview because of the safety incident and asked how to pursue that transfer.
The public-comment period concluded with the hearing adjourned; the transcript does not record board responses to these requests or any immediate policy changes.
