School officials hope it's the last time they'll have to move elementary school students for a few years. They say the move is necessary to relieve overcrowding at some of the schools. Under the proposal, there are several changes. One of the biggest is that about 600 students in kindergarten through fifth grade living in Mallard Village, Mill Creek Subdivision, Garden Acres, the Pineland Avenue area and on Frank Cochran Drive would attend the new Waldo Pafford Elementary School expected to open in August 2000. For more information contact the board at 876-2161.
Parents have mixed reactions.
Birgit Haugen said it would be the second time while living in Mallard Village for three years that her son's assigned school has changed. Haugen objected to that move because her son was moving from a newer to an older school. But she doesn't mind the latest proposal to send him to Waldo Pafford. Her neighbor Stefanie Watson, though, wishes her son could still attend Button Gwinnett next year. A military wife, she expects her child will have to move again during the upcoming school year because of changes in her husband's job.