Shuffling Students
UPDATE: The Board of Education voted Monday afternoon, Oct. 4, to scuttle plans for shuttering Chantilly and Highland.
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From Sept. 30: I’m not saying Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ latest plans of upheaval for continuous improvement have anything to do with social engineering.
Here’s what I’m saying: Chantilly Elementary and Highland Mill Elementary are two Montessori schools targeted for shuttering. The combined populations of both schools will be shifted to Oakhurst Elementary, which will see its kids scattered largely to Billingsville and Rama Road.
Chantilly currently has about 250 kids; Highland Mill, 232. Of the major demographics, Chantilly has 66 African-American students (26%), 16 Hispanic students (6%) and 147 white students (59%); Highland Mill has 158 African-American students (68%), 15 Hispanic students (6%) and 44 white students (19%).
Amazing what happens to the demographics when you combine the two schools, as CMS is wont to do: 224 African-American students (46%), 31 Hispanic students (6%), and 191 white students (40%). But I’m sure that’s wholly coincidental.
Full disclosure: I have two kids enrolled at Chantilly. I have zero problem with them going to a racially balanced school, or even a minority/majority school. My kids have wonderful teachers, great friends, and a terrific principal at Chantilly; I’d bet parents with kids at Highland Mill feel the same way.
I’d hate to think CMS is going to disrupt that for hundreds of families, simply to satisfy a racially driven agenda.
I’m not saying that’s the case; but the numbers are what they are … and CMS is what it is.
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