Linden Hill Elementary is having to use temporary classrooms (trailers) due to having too many students. I supposed that it is due to the fact that the kids who go there actually benefit from the experience and so are not fleeing to private schools. But this got me thinking about why the person who draws the feeder pattern was allowed to screw up resulting in expensive overcrowding. It does not appear that they did.
According to reports, they have six temporary classrooms. With their average class size being about 25 kids, that leads to an excess of about 150 kids. I checked to see how many kids had been allowed to “Choice” into Linden Hill. The answer: 130.
Enough said. Someone seems to have “Chosen” to overcrowd this school.
Overcrowded by Choice?
November 23, 2011 by Steve Larrimore
There is plenty of room at Warner in Wilmington but that will conflict with the neighborhood school law but yet Red Clay buses city middle and high school students to the suburbs.
There is a Red Clay “capital” referendum set for February 2012 to build a new school on Graves Road and a “operational” referendum.
I am not a big fan of charter schools but respect parents rights who choose them. But the Red Clay taxpayers could save million in construction and ongoing maintenance of a new school.
Some of the Red Clay schools are over-crowed due accommodating school Choice whereas perhaps Choice should have been closed to out of feeder students.
The poor economy is forcing many middle class families (students) who attended private schools to come back to public schools.