New School Boundaries for Maple Valley area residents
The Tahoma School Board unanimously approved the "Bryson plan" last night and just like that....new school boundaries are in place.
Over the years while raising our 3 sons, we lived through a few boundary changes in the district. One impacted us directly with our youngest being moved from Shadow Lake to Rock Creek and the other not so much as by then, they were in High School....of which there was only one.
When we moved to Maple Valley back in 1994, I remember being very surprised to learn there was such an over crowding issue. I called the WA State Superintendent of Education's office and spoke with a very kind man who had kind things to say about the district. But I'll never forget his words to me,
"Yes, well....Tahoma has had to get, well....very creative in their structuring".
And they did.
When my sons were in Elementary School, Shadow Lake was a K-3 school and then they went to Cedar River as a 4-6th grade school. We loved it! Shadow Lake was nurturing and intimate. Cedar River was the perfect stepping stone prior to the Junior High. And then the big change came and suddenly we were thrown into a K-6 with different teachers, faces, policies, methods of communications....you get the picture.
Change is never easy and I assume there are some families who aren't happy with this final outcome. But Tahoma Schools are committed to excellence in all things. If your child is doing well in one school, he/she will be just fine.
Trust me....I've been where you are.
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