On the other side I was a parent who choose to send my chiid to private school because I felt her own needs would be better adressed in a school where she got extra help and small classes, and then, when we return to public school, we went outside our assigned school because we needed speech therapy which was not offered in our neighborhood high school. I am very familiar with driving many miles daily to take and pick a child from school. All the friends live many miles and it was a real planning project to arrange a visit.

Why on earth would any planner try to split up the schools of Morningside, Inman and Grady. There is no logic to this. It certainly is not “going Green” – the older kids could ride bikes to Inman or Grady. Even with the school bus transporting the student to one of these three schools, there is such a saving on gas, which is getting more and more expensive.

Continue on this road- the whole planning system, and I can see what happened in the 70s and 80 when more and more families moved to DeKalb and Gwinnett and East Cobb.

And, by the way, I have no axe to grind. I have grandchildren who go to their neighborhood school where their mother teaches- first grade, fourth grade – even the middle school brother is right there in a separate building. Of course, this is inSouth Carolina.

I certainly hope that these plans, as I understand them, do not come to pass.

Linda C. DeMars