By: Las Vegas Now Staff
Parents upset about proposed school zoning changes voiced their opinions to Clark County School Officials Monday night. The Attendance Zone Advisory Commission, or AZAC, met at Coronado High School.
Zoning for the following schools were discussed: Bartlett, Beatty, D. Cox, Kesterson, Lamping, Roberts, G. Taylor, Twitchell and Vanderburg Elementary Schools. Burkholder and B. Miller Middle/Junior High Schools; and Liberty and Sandy Valley High Schools.
Many parents at Lamping Elementary in Henderson have been very vocal about how the proposed zoning will affect their families. They are angry because the zoning changes will force hundreds of kids to be transferred to schools further from their homes.
Teresa Lobosco tells Eyewitness News, “They are going to move us to a school that is farther away which means that we will be on Eastern which is very busy and probably take us 45 minutes to get home from school. The three schools show no continuity in their education. If my daughter was to go to Lamping to Glen Taylor and then to the new school when it is built, there is no continuity in her education.”
Parents from the Sunridge Community set up a mobile billboard last week to show their opposition to the plan.
Lamping Principal Michael O'Dowd is tired of the fight. “I think at some point we need to put our differences aside and say the district has policies and procedures in place to handle this. Let's let them handle this, do their job and let's get back to being a community and supporting our children.”
The School District is trying to fix the overcrowding population. The Zoning Committee will make a recommendation to the Board of Trustees after the meeting and a final decision is expected in early March.
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