As Leesville families struggle to make school choices, please remember that we are in this situation because our newly elected District 7 representative promised to change the calendar. You had to really listen and cut through the feel-good neighborhood schools slogan, but Deborah Prickett has delivered for her small, but ever-so-vocal minority.
The rest of the new board majority rolled over on this, too, ignoring a promise to make data-driven decisions. No cost-benefit analysis, no impact statement and no questions about why we now need $8.2 million for a new Northwest Raleigh middle school or about what the effects are to Leesville Road High School when an overcrowded middle school takes its trailers, or even about what to do if 33 percent of the Leesville Road Middle School teachers really leave when the calendar changes.
I would implore anyone who disagrees with this calendar change to have a long memory because the only thing that matters is whom you elect in 2013! Clearly, surveys don't matter; e-mails to the board don't matter; talking to board members doesn't matter; speaking at board meetings doesn't matter and even WCPSS staff recommendations don't matter.
