The Katy ISD is considering rezoning children who are presently zoned to Beck Jr High School well east of the Grand Parkway out to the new Woodcreek Reserve Jr High School in the far western part of the school district. The idea behind the moves is to ease some of the children out of Beck and make sure we have enough children to properly open the new school in Woodcreek Reserve.
This is obviously a very bad idea and seems to be based more on ease of transition (only one school would be re-zoned rather than multiple schools) than what is practical and best for the students. We spoke with Linda Mathis (sec. for John Bailey who heads zoning) and she told us nothing has been set on this matter and the administration would be taking up the issue at the meeting on November 8th at the KISD administration building at 6:30pm. We let her know we expected a very large turn out for the meeting!
We appose this re-zoning not because we think the new school will not be a great school...to the contrary...based on previous schools we assume this will be a great school with wonderful teachers and technology. Our opposition come from the fact that based on distance the children will be required to take long bus rides after a long day of school, it will make extracurricular activities more difficult, and it will require our children to drive past three quality Jr High Schools (Beck, Beckendorf, and Cinco Ranch Jr High School) to get out to the new school many miles from home..all while taking them away from the friends they have in neighborhoods surrounding the move.
A much better solution would be to move the children who attend Cinco Ranch Jr High but live in neighborhoods closer to the new school (like Falcon Ranch) and have the children who presently live in the neighborhoods surrounding Peek Rd east of the Grand Parkway to move to Cinco Ranch Jr High School (they already live closer to CRJHS than Beck). This would keep them attending school with the children they will eventually go to High School with.
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