So this is the latest in crazy Michigan politics/government.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...=2011111110050
All of the schools deemed as "failing" (individual schools, not districts) are being moved to one statewide district to be overhauled.
I have a lot of conflicting feelings about this whole concept. I don't understand how this is going to work. I would think that most parents whose kids are in one of these schools would "school of choice" to a better school. What about schools that feed into each other? You have four middle schools that feed one high school. One of those middle schools is put into this new district. Does that school still feed into that high school? Kids are changing districts constantly if this is true. How is that going to screw up their transcripts? What about athletic conferences? How does that work? What about bond issues that were district wide? Does that money go to the new district or the old one? What do people think about this? What is to stop them from deeming all schools a failure and making a state-wide district where the people have no say in what happens because they don't get to elect the school board, etc.?
I would love to hear people's thoughts, especially the GC educators.
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