"Right now, all of our middle school kids from here literally are on a bus for an hour, hour and a half everyday."
Quinto believes redrawing school lines will give students more stability.
"So that groups of kids in elementary schools know who they'll be attending school with in the middle school level and the high school level and unfortunately we don't have that now."
The plan would transfer nearly 750 students from over-crowed high schools to those with more room starting in September. Parent Julie Sanchez thinks it could be done differently.
"They should start it in the 9th grade, so they don't get used to being here and get sent somewhere else."
School board member Carol Mills said the plan fails to improve schools or to balance school populations.
"We're not really achieving the boundary areas we are trying to achieve."
Under the proposed boundary plan, students with Powers Elementary and Wawona Middle will no longer go to Fresno High. Instead they will come here to Bullard. Mills is afraid new boundary designs will disrupt the international baccalaureate program, designed to promote international learning and education.
"The community has spent at least 8 years setting up these programs including Wawona and to have the middle schools baccalaureate program feed into a non-IB high school does not make academic sense."
Quinto said changing feeder schools will not mean the end of the program. She says students will be allowed to attend Fresno high if they want to continue the I.B. program.
Another major component to the proposal is building a new high school in Southeast Fresno. School administrators say because of new housing four schools are extremely overcrowded.
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School Attendance Boundary Meetings Information
The meetings will be specific to the proposed high school areas which can be viewed here.
The proposed feeder pattern information can be viewed here.
Fresno Unified School District Website
February 5, 2009 - 6:30 PM - Bullard High School Area
To be held at Wawona Middle School Auditorium
February 10, 2009 - 6:30 PM - Fresno High School Area
To be held at Williams Elementary School Auditorium
February 12, 2009 - 6:30 PM - Hoover High School Area
To be held at Ahwahnee Middle School Auditorium
February 17, 2009 - 6:30 PM - McLane High School Area
To be held at Scandinavian Middle School Auditorium
February 18, 2009 - 6:30 PM - New SE High School Area
To be held at Terronez Middle School Auditorium
February 19, 2009 - 6:30 PM - Sunnyside High School Area
To be held at Kings Canyon Middle School Auditorium
February 24, 2009 - 6:30 PM - Roosevelt High School Area
To be held at Anthony Elementary School Auditorium
February 26, 2009 - 6:30 PM - Edison High School Area
To be held at Edison High School Auditorium
Written feedback is also invited via email to Communications@fresnounified.org
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