10 questions for FBISD and Trustee: 1. Why does FBISD leave Travis so much vacant capacity while all other schools around are highly utilized or overcrowded? Does it even make sense to shift the enrollment eastward while there are many seats left in the west? Isnt moving GSA from the east to the west a self contradictory design? 2. One said goal of the rezoning is to better utilize district wide school facilities. However, we dont see much change in the most under-utilized high schools (Hightower, Willowridge and Marshalls) in any proposed scenarios. Meanwhile, Clements and its feeder schools including Fort Settlement and Common Wealth, which have never been under-utilized, have to bear the high risk of overcrowding again. Any explanation for this, especially when Common Wealth is still under frozen condition? 3. Clements functional capacity is 2543 and current enrollment is 2502. To serve this amount of students, Clements has utilized two extra buildings and 8 trailers. Plan C will bring 3200 more families to current 10500 ones, nearly one third increase. What will the district do to the school if immediate overcrowding occurs? Adding more trailers? Squeezing more students in every classroom? Asking Fire Marshall to issue safety warning and freezing the enrollment again like CWE? 4. Clements utilization of functional capacity was 94% in plan A for year 2018 with more than 2700 units net increase. It was still 94% in plan B with only about 900 units increase. Those numbers obviously dont fit for each other. And in plan C with near 3200 units increase, the district didnt even bother to post rate any more. With such high rate, any mistake on assumption or data could get Clements into overcrowding trouble. Disclose of raw data, assumptions, and methodologies for this area is strongly requested since they can have material impact. 5. With more than 2500 single families, Telfair will crowd any high school around as a single addition, why cant it be split like other communities such as New Territories, Sweet Water, Woodstream, Avalon at Riverstone and so on? What is so special about Telfair? 5. Telfair is the biggest piece moving around in the feeder pattern and will make material impact to more than 10,000 households wherever it goes. FBISD has the obligation to disclose all related raw data, assumptions and methodology about Telfair enrollment projection and to allow audit. 7. For the past 5 years from 2008-2013, Fort Bend ISD enrollment total growth was only 3.24%, the 45th among 60 school districts in the state with more than 20,000 students according to PASA. The state average growth rate for all those districts was 7.26%. Does FBISD really need to make such a large feed pattern movement since the demographic change has been so small compared to other districts? Is the goal mainly to reduce the splits? If so, when did this become a main criteria and is there any solid proof that reducing splits would increase school performance? 8. If a new plan need to be reviewed and very likely to be revised every year, what is the point to make such a huge movement and affect so many peoples life? Does combining Clements, Dulles and Elkins together for utilization means every year those residents will get rezone hassles, except telfair because it will be far away from Elkins and Dulles? 9. Why did FBISD go backwards after listening to the communities and coming up with plan B? Does it mean the early 7000 feedbacks were completely overwritten by new feedbacks ? Did the district explain this intention to the public in advance? The district promised that paper surveys would be taken into account and that was why many people focused on filling out hard copies with signatures and addresses. Were those paper surveys actually counted as stated? In another words, we request the survey results to be published and audited if they have been used materially in the decision process. 10. What rules did the fbisd administration announce to the public on how the surveys would be counted and considered in the decision process in advance? Have those rules been followed in the actual decision process? Anybody could fill the online survey as many times as they wanted with current design. How those kind of surveys were counted in the process?
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 03:39:58 +0000
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