For the last 7 years, my children have attended Sangre Ridge Elementary school. Teagan will be in 1st grade next year so by the time she's finishing her 5th grade year we will have been at Sangre for 13 consecutive years.
So Stillwater is growing. Apparently growing so much that Sangre is overflowing with students compared to the other schools in town. So there have been some changes made to the boundary lines and those changes were announced today.
According to the map Sadie and Teagan will no longer be Sangre Ridge students. I don't like change. I really don't. I know this will be fine but it's change and I just don't like it.
We are less than a block from the boundary line for Sangre, but it doesn't matter. We're now in the Westwood district and the girls will travel past their old school to get to their new one.
This affects lots of kids so they'll know people at Westwood. I still don't like it though. Sangre is like home. I know all the teachers. I know the staff. I know where everything is. I'm comfortable having my kids there. I'm comfortable there. It's not about me though. Right? This is going to be fine. Right?
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These are the senseless ramblings of a stay-at-home mom in the midwest. Please do not be confused, I have no bon bons and if I did I probably wouldn't share. I would probably hide them in the pantry and sneak them in small amounts when no one else in the family was around. However, if you have bon bons I'd love to try a bite. Please share. Pass the bon bons.
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- Margo
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11 comments:
Wow! I didn't realize they'd already built a new school! I know Sangre is familiar, comfortable and a great school... and I would have a hard time too... but think positive! This will be GREAT! You and the girls will have loads of new opportunities in a new building and you'll be part of the crew that sets the standard for the new school! There may be some hiccups along the way, but it's going to be good!
Think how exciting new shoes are... I know it's really not the same thing... but it's always exciting to have new shoes, a new house... change is hard, but this will be something new and exciting to explore and the girls will have friends and probably even some familiar staff/teacher faces! Hang in there!
You can do it! :)
When we moved to Stillwater we lived in the Sangre district. I was still teaching math in Perry and took Parker, a Kindergardener at the time, back and forth with me. The next year I quit teaching and we moved before he started first grade. Our moved put us in the Richmond school district. We love our school and teachers. When we decided to build our new house it was important to me that we find an acreage in our school district. I totally understand your feelings because you don't want your kids to feel like the new kids on the block. However, when we started Parker in Stillwater schools it was all new to him and he did fine. I think it's worse for us as parents because that just what we do... worry.
Wow, I'd have a hard time with that too. I hope it all works out!
Do you have a school-of-choice program in your area where you can opt to still take them to Sangre? If we moved to the neighboring district I'd still be able to keep my kids in the same school, but I'd have to provide transportation as we'd be out of bounds for bus route.
You will be fine, but you're right, change is hard. I don't know about the new school, but perhaps they don't have the open "pods" Sangre does. That could be a good change. You will miss the lunch duty/traffic director lady Brooke's kids call "Janny" (no idea why). She has an awesome Southern accent.
Oh man! That sucks, they should have like a grandfather clause or something for families like yours.
Ame, it's not actually a NEW school. Just new to us. ;) It's the one right across from Warren Clinic.
Pam, nope. The whole point of this was to get people out of Sangre. Our town is quickly growing and the majority of growth is in this school district. So in order to more evenly distribute the numbers...they changed the boundry lines. Doesn't really matter where I WANT to go, I gotta follow the rules.
Christina, actually Janny is one person I WON'T miss! LOL
Everyone else...thanks for the encouragement. The girls are excited about the move and I know it will end up just fine. But still, it's change. And you know how I feel about that!
I am SO sad your kids won't be at Sangre and it's entirely selfish of me to think that way, but I am feeling that way. BUT, we still live in Stillwater and we will still see each other. When I was in elementary we had overcrowding (worse than Sangre) and since there wasn't another school to send kids to we had to go to year-round school. I think I told you about that. My sister's hyper-out-of-control child goes to year-round. Can you say lucky? Ha, ha. No, there are worse options I suppose. Your kids will do fine. Kids are resilient.
Hmmm, all year school. Tempting! LOL
Duh! I knew that! I have friends with kids at Westwood.
OMG! I had no idea! I had heard, since the day we moved to Stillwater, that the Board was talking about rezoning but I hadn't heard that it went through.
I guess it is good we moved to Tulsa!
We miss you guys!
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