CLINTON -- Some parents of Foxboro development in North Salt Lake are not happy with a boundary decision made by the Davis School Board, which moves their students from Millcreek Junior High School to Mueller Park Junior High School.
"They're wrong," said Becca Mecham after the meeting that was held Tuesday at Parkside Elementary School in Clinton.
School board members voted 5 to 1 for the change. Barbara Smith was the only school board member who voted against the boundary change, saying after the meeting that her constituents have voiced concerns about it.
"They have been moved a lot," Smith said. "Also some are concerned about the length of the bus ride."
Davis School District officials said the change in boundaries is necessary because too many students are attending Millcreek Junior High School and not enough are enrolled in Mueller Park Junior High School.
Parents who want their children to stay at Millcreek Junior High can apply for a variance, said Rick Call, secondary school director. The district will also extend the deadline for those parents to submit variance applications. For most students the deadline is this Friday.
The district will also stagger the changes, so students who are currently attending Millcreek Junior High can continue.
But for Mecham, the change is just one more her area has been dealt in four years. When she moved her family into their home, her junior high-age children were attending South Davis Junior High School. Then the district changed the boundaries and placed her children and those in her neighborhood at Millcreek Junior High.
Her concern is not so much about her children's education.
"I have no problems with the schools. I love them both," she said. "It's the friendships. My children will have friends at three different junior high schools."
Her husband, Brad Mecham, said he hopes school district officials will consider changing someone else in the future.
"We don't want to move again," Brad Mecham said.
He also believes school district officials may have the wrong numbers and the schools will need help within a few years because of huge influxes of students who will feed into the junior high schools from charter schools.
Also, even though some areas of Davis County have seen a decrease in houses being built, Brad Mecham said his area has not.
"Just this last week, six new houses were started," Mecham said.
And that just means more families moving into the area.
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