3 months ago
About 250 Houston County parents attended a meeting Thursday night to discuss a rezoning plan drawn up because of the opening of Veterans High School.
The meeting kicked off at 7 p.m. in the gym at Warner Robins High School.
Houston County Schools Superintendent David Carpenter and his executive board worked to answer more than one-hundred questions, through an outside moderator.
He says the number one reason for the new school is overcrowding. He says they want to bring 1,300 students to Veterans High to reduce Warner Robins', Northside's and Houston County's student populations.
Some parents asked about athletic programs at the new school, bus routes, traffic flow problems from Bonaire to Warner Robins and the zoning process.
The meeting lasted nearly two hours.
Carpenter says they will continue to take questions and input from concerned community members. He says no plans have been finalized.
Carpenter wouldn't answer questions about the Justice Department guidelines that require zones to reflect the district's black population, meaning each Houston school would be 26-percent to 46-percent black. He says he's leaving the interpretation of the court order to attorney's.
Carpenter says the board decided to push their decision on the final plans back a few weeks. They now expect to vote at the end of January.
