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Richardson ISD approves school expansion plans

White Rock, Wallace, Merriman Park and Dover elementary schools will undergo expansions to accommodate increased enrollment. According to the RISD demographic update, the increase is mostly due to our neighborhood’s abundance of multifamily properties 155 complexes and 15,099 students in 2012.

We covered the story online via the Advocate Digital Digest, and the issue generated hundreds of comments from our readers about whether expansion is the best move.

Reader Comments

My thought is that since the majority of all these children will attend Lake Highlands High School some day, it would preclude everyone to make sure all kids are being taken care of as early on as possible. This will create better stability and more productive kids later on. The poor teachers have their hands full. —Judy

Both my kids went to RISD schools with “apartment kids” — one at White Rock Elementary before the apartments on Skillman were torn down. Both excelled academically, top 8 percent of high school class for one, top 10 in their class for the other. If your kids aren’t doing well in school, look to your kids (and maybe yourself), not whoever is sitting in the desk next to them.

Speaking statistically (doesn’t apply to every kid) apartment kids have higher rates of poor academic performance and discipline problems. My kids’ education suffers because teachers have to devote more time to these kids. They have to pay more attention to their academic struggles and their behavioral issues. This time comes at my child’s expense. Lessons have to be planned to take into account these kids’ abilities while my kids learn much less than they should.

—Bad for my kids!

I measure my success one family at a time.

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