APS lets parents keep kids out of DH Stanton ES | 11alive.comWell, gosh, how bad does a school have to be if even Cook parents don't want their children to go there? How insulting can you get?
Monday night the board agreed to adjust the attendance zones in order to transfer the Cook students to a better performing school, Parkside Elementary School in nearby Grant Park, instead of to where the students were going to be transferred, D.H. Stanton ES -- which is a lower-performing school -- in the nearby Peoplestown neighborhood.
Parkside is already running close to capacity without the extra Cook students. And the D.H. Stanton parents just won a major victory by mobilizing loudly enough to convince the board to let the school stay open despite Superintendent Davis' recommendation that they close it. If the parents whose children are getting zoned into it are going to say "no, thanks", you can bet D.H. Stanton will be right back on the "recommended to close" list next year -- and next time there will be no last-minute reprieve.
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