Redistricting committee members agreed that a feeder zone map that few people in the community support almost surely will lead to an unpopular attendance zone plan. People want to see the final map before it goes to the mapping committee, said Turner, who represents the Guilford County Council of PTAs. I don't think that's an unreasonable request from the community. Some committee members said they were disappointed by public comments that unfairly painted some high schools as violent. Redistricting committee member Gladys Robinson said Dudley and Smith high schools have less crime than other schools despite how the public perceives them.
White students are in the minority at both schools.
Some 97 percent of Dudley students are black. One group making claims of excessive violence, Robinson said, includes residents of the Aycock neighborhood near downtown Greensboro. This area sits within the Dudley attendance zone. Residents said at a forum that they want their children to attend Page or Grimsley. But committee member Susan Elliott, an Aycock area resident, said her neighbors have said nothing about crime at those schools.