What's the big deal? Let the girl and her sister go to the same high school. Kids should go to the school closest to their homes. You should not have a family of kids being spread out and seperated and attending different schools that is wrong. Oh yeah...It is not a lie that teacher's are over worked and under paid. My mother was a teacher for 35 years. She put up with a lot of crap that teachers should not have to deal with. Misbehaved kids and misbehaved parents. At times the administration had no back bone to help enforce rules or back up their teachers. I feel bad for them. Kids go to school and cuss out teachers, threaten them, vandilize their stuff, and then you have parents who are just as out of control as kids and you wonder why we have a shortage of teachers in america. Hello, will someone please wake up.

nthomas, that was a weird post. Nonsensical dribble.

Most teachers are overworked. True, some don't put in the hours that others do, but those that I worked with were totally dedicated. Many of us would take a sick day just to catch up on grading since most of our workdays would be taken up with workshops and we would have at least 4 school-wide meetings a month. This was in addition to serving on committees (all met after school), attending parent/teacher conferences, and doing after school tutoring for those few students so inclined. I was putting in easily 55+hours per week plus close to a 2-hour round trip commute each day. I tried to switch to a school closer to our home, but WCPSS's dirty little secret is they don't like for teachers to transfer. Out of 70+ teachers from one school, only 5 got transfers. So, I quit. It was not worth it. Since quitting, my health has improved greatly as well as my stress levels. Of course, this myr has them raised again!!!

two words: school choice. Vouchers/Tax Reprieve if you want to go Private. Lord knows, I detest government. What ever happened to: He who governs least, governs best? Of course, all the idiots safely tenured in the Public School system and those among us who have bought the: Teachers are overworked and underpaid lie will disagree. But with choice, we wouldn't have "Bond" issues every quarter and schools would have to get lean and mean. Lots of fat cats (the entire Wake County Department of Education looks like a "before" Subway commercial) would be out of work.

I 100% agree with the right of every child to attend the school closest to their home. I think we are ignoring the larger problem with the attitude of the school system by trying to fix this with exceptions. Let's fix the problem and get every child going to the school closest to home.