Atlanta residents, in addition to City Council and state House and Senate districts, have a third redistricting on which to fix their eyes. Atlanta Public Schools has decided to redraw its student districts, allegedly to relieve overcrowding in its most highly regarded schools. Regardless of which new district map is approved, school closures are planned.
Some parents are concerned that longer-distance busing will be used to balance the enrollment of schools. Upsetting though it may be to some, and though childhood education is far from my area of expertise, I suggest shuffling teachers and other faculty betweeen different school clusters within Atlanta, at least on a single occasion. Although such problems as poor building maintenance and adjoining neighborhood crime can lower the desirability of a school, a greater problem, I think, is disinvestment on the part of faculty an students, which can occur in a sort of feedback loop.
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