Final Recommendation District Map Posted for Birmingham Elementary
For as many changes as School Board staff made between rounds two and three in the redistricting process, there were almost no changes from the Final Draft district map to the Final Recommendation map .
And it is not like they didn’t get any comments: Eighty-three pages of comments are posted on the redistricting website in case your Ambien is not working.
There were fourteen pages of comments taken at the Round Three meeting and sixty-nine pages of comments collected online. Thirty-four of the sixty-nine pages were PRO the map. When half the people are for something and half are against you have reached a decision.
The only change I could find on the recommended map was that the condos along the west side of Morris Road, including Morris Lake, were moved from Cogburn Woods back to Manning Oaks, where they currently go.
Now that the final recommendation has been made by staff, the full School Board will vote - and make changes as they see fit - to the plan in February. The transfer of government power in a democracy and the redistricting of an elementary school in a public school system: two tasks completed without violence and with orderly process that never cease to amaze me.
Now, I didn’t say there wouldn’t be some politicing; just no National Guard needed.
