Results from Sunday Meeting

A meeting was held at the Brown’s house on Sunday night to discuss the proposed DISD Zone Changes. The meeting was open to anyone in the community. The results of the meeting were very positive with discussions centered on what could be done about the proposed zone changes. Some of the results are as follows:

1. The blogger is a very import tool for expressing the opinions of the community, and that people should spread the news about the blogger to ask people to post their comments and opinions. It was explained that any letters needed to be sent to buster_brown@earthlink.net to post. Also, that it is easy to email the blogger to others by clicking the envelope on the site. It is our hope that the DISD administration will eventually make posts to this site.

2. Several questions were agreed upon that needed to be asked during the hearings/presentations this week. And were subsequently assigned to a few folks to be asked during the hearings/presentations.

3. We all agreed that it was important for people to attend the hearings/presentations to show their support for this important issue, and ask their questions both Tuesday night and Thursday night. Ryan High School Auditorium, Tuesday November 16, 2004 and Denton High School Auditorium, Thursday, November 18, 2004.

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4. Discussions took place about the format of the hearings/presentations, and that questions had to be written out on a form. Those that attended the session last week explained that a presentation was given and that questions were answered that had been written only. No oration or statements could be made by the community.

5. Concern was also expressed about teacher transfers from DHS to Guyer over the next few years.

6. An additional question arose in relation to the increased percent of free and reduced lunch students at DHS. Does DHS have the appropriate resources to allocate for this increase?