Janice Brown of Greensboro asked if a family had the option of sending its children to another school once the new lines are approved. The Guilford County Board of Education hopes to have new attendance lines drawn for the 1998-99 school year. One of the maps, or some combination of them, will be chosen as a starting point for drawing individual attendance lines for all the county's public schools. About two-thirds of the audience raised their hands in agreement. And from there, the forum became a dialogue between the panel and the audience.
Attendance zones are the smaller areas drawn around individual schools.
When new schools are built, those would change. She advised the audience to consider the maps in relation to where their children currently attend school, then choose between the four proposals. But Brown said none of the options would help the area where he lives, near Dudley High School, since most would mean students would be bused from downtown into the suburbs. What we need to do is bring the inner-city schools back.