Parents, school board at odds over Chesterfield redistricting

The decision whether to adopt the redistricting committee's recommendation for Tomahawk Creek or to make changes will tell the voters of Chesterfield if the citizens are more important than the political favortism that has occurred in Chesterfield for years with the past boards, both School and Supervisor. When a board ignores the majority of citizen opinion, you have to guess they are serving their own political agendas. Chesterfield must look at the county as a whole, look at school feeder patterns and look at capacity of schools instead of redistricting the children of the county every two or three years or leaving children in schools almost 50% over capacity while others are in under capacity schools nearby. Our children are suffering at their hands and it would be great to see that this will end with the new school board.

Middle School is such an important time, yet the middle schools, with their overcrowding, are failing many of our students. Friends have moved their children to independent schools like Millwood, to get the attentive teaching and opportunities to play on sports teams. Chesterfield's school system has a good reputation, but I don't think the middle schools live up to what we should expect. And redistricting every few years does not help.

Our school board director's spin that as"adults" you will have 8 different jobs and therefore moving children around is a learning experience.
I have several issues with this:
1.Adults have a basis of confidence and maturity children do are not. Ericson in his work defined this period as the "Who am I stage". He did not term this as where am I.
2.The communities that were moved this week are apart of the Village of Midlothian not the zip code. This school board is helping create the strip mall society that the Village of Midlothian is for the people. A community is not bricks its people. My wife and I have chosen to live in Walton Lake when others have moved for larger homes because we believe in comunity. We have the means to buy more, but we believe in the community as does Salisbury and how it has always fought to stay in the same school cluster.
3.Providence Middle has 250 seats that need to be filled. Why are you breaking the ties that Walton Lake, Queensmill, and Evergreen communities have with the Village of Midlothian schools.I guess this board is afraid of moving people to those seats.
4.I hope the Sowers and Watkins have payed forward for there next move Middlothian High in 2010. We shall not forget this in our communities and shall not let another Tomahawk happen again.

The best solution is to send students to the closest school. It is such a simple concept.

If you send more students to Providence MS, most will come from Robius MS.