Here's an excerpt from a letter that Mr. Larry Perez (Leader of www.stophhh1.blogspot.com) wrote to Commissioner Moss.....
"Due to our concerns regarding significant impacts to roads, traffic patterns, noise, property values and crime, we have requested that the school board present residents with their plans for this new school on Wednesday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Jorge Mas Canosa Middle School, at 15735 SW 144 ST."
Wow, they think our children are criminals!!!
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I was at that meeting last night and I am amazed at the misconceptions that were being peddled at the meeting. A neighborhood school is a school that serves the neighborhood. This school will not be importing students from Southridge or anywhere else. It will be serving the students in our neighborhoods.
Thank you for setting up this blog.
Mary A. Milan
Teacher, Mother, Resident and BOD Secretary of San Jose (aka Oak Creek North)
http://moms2398.wordpress.com/
Thanks Ms. Millian,
We all need to come together to voice our approval. So far they are only hearing the small group residents that are opposing. We need to make sure Ms. Ana Rivas-Logan and the rest of the school board know that we are the MAJORITY. Please let everyone in Oak Creek North know whats going on. WE NEED EVERYONE ON BOARD!!
At no point in the meeting did anyone say that OUR children are criminals. Lets take a step back and look at Jorge Mas Canossa. That middle school is designated as a neighborhood school. Guess what, one moth before school opened the administration was advised that they would be a NCLB school. NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND. This allowed almost 300 students who are not zoned for this school to go their because they can not make it in their assigned school. Is this fair to our children. Bring in children that can not pass the stupid FCAT exam and place them in our community middle school. Guess what the school grade will be this year? I bet it is not an A school.
This area is now becomming the dumping ground for those students that can not make it at their own.
One more thing, in talking to Dr. Ortiz, he stated the the high school students come to JMC on early release days and MAY be looking tp start trouble. Do you really want to put this school less than two miles from the middle school?
Please wake up and realize that we are not against the school but just want it relocated to a location that is more suitable for a high school.
A COUNTRY WALK RESIDENT
I think that the High School is going to be build to close to a Middle and Elementary School. Now this is going to bring problems. Also is not going to be a NEIGHBORHOOD school. I think they should reconsider and build the school at another site.
While it would be great to have a neighborhood high school that was for our neighborhood, school board documents say something else(see Special Application to Ammend the Comprehensive Development Master Plan, Sept 19, 2007). As you have indicated in your blog, HHH1 was conceived as an "overflow" facility, and the CMPD document from last Sept. states that 1100 students from Felix Varela and 800 from Sunset will go to HHH1. With a capacity of 2000 S/S, there will be no capacity left for neighborhood students. At public meetings, the school board repeatedly states that the capacity of HHH1 is 2000 students. Neighbors have supported the construction of other Miami-Dade schools, only to discover the school was an "overflow" school, like HHH1. At a meeting last month, school board representatives said that HHH1 would be for students from Princeton and Goulds areas. We would like to have a school for our children.
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