This goes to show you several things: 1. Wake County school board is on a power trip. 2. Wake County school board does not care about the children, their education, nor families. 3. Wake County school board needs to be voted out!! The child in the article has to attend two different schools in order to get the advanced math classes she needs. If that's not an exceptional situation requiring special consideration, I don't know what is. Her parents requested a transfer to a school that can offer both next year...but they were denied. So next year, the child has to again attend two schools. http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1527456/
When my sons were in high school it was common knowledge that to try to get a transfer to a particular school you picked a class that school provided that was not provided in your current school to give you the "justifcation" for the transfer request. I can imagine the difficulty is trying to weed out the valid requests from those just wanting to get a transfer because they want a different school.
What is sad is that WCPSS employee's requests were the 3rd highest number of approved transfer requests, behind only those who were rising and wanted to finish at their current school, and those who wanted to go back to their base schools. They approved 654 transfer requests for no reason other than mom or dad was an employee and got to choose where their kids attend.... ...but they can't approve the request for 1 child who wishes not to have to attend 2 different schools. My child is in high school and has only 4 minutes between classes. Where does the "travel" time fit in for this child to get from one school to the other and back? How does that mess up her schedule? Where does it cut into her class time?
I did wonder these things myself. Since it is really one class (math) I wonder if there would be something available through vocational schools or a university that could be worked out. I can't believe there is only one student in an entire school that would not benefit from a higher level of math.
Maybe he/she could take the class online? We had a student who took an advanced class online this year since we didn't offer the class he needed.
