{"id":5707,"date":"2015-06-03T20:22:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T03:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2015-06-03T20:22:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T03:22:56","slug":"stapleton-kids-to-be-bused-to-highlands-schools-to-make-them-more-desirable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5707","title":{"rendered":"Stapleton Kids to be Bused to Highlands Schools to Make Them More Desirable"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"stapleton<\/a>The tremendous success of McAuliffe Junior High School in Park Hill has caused Denver Public Schools to rethink boundaries and busing. When McAuliffe left its Stapleton campus to move to the Smiley campus, Park Hill residents demanded priority in the school, even though only 20 percent<\/a> had previously enrolled their kids in Smiley. Now, 80 percent of Park Hill residents want their kids to attend the Stapleton-kid school. \u201cWe would never have enrolled in Smiley,\u201d admits Park Hill resident Mary Walsworth. \u201cBut, with an opportunity for my kids to get educated next to Stapleton kids, we can\u2019t pass that up.\u201d Park Hill Resident Joe Weber agrees. \u201cYou can smell the success on these kids,\u201d says Weber. \u201cI\u2019m just hoping a little of it rubs off on my kids.\u201d\n\nIn light of the success of McAuliffe, Denver Public Schools sees an opportunity to continue to work to keep more families in the Denver Public School system. \u201cSo many families in urban areas were choosing to attend private schools,\u201d said Denver Superintendent of Schools Tom Boasberg. \u201cWe were losing the types of families who want to be involved in schools, as they were enrolling at private schools. Park Hill has become a great case study for us. If we can get the right kids, or in this case, Stapleton kids, to go to a community public school, we can keep a lot more families in our school system.\u201d\nBoasberg says now that the ship has been righted in Park Hill, thanks to Stapleton kids, the next community school system they plan to save is the Highlands. \u201cSo many people in Stapleton originally lived in the Highlands,\u201d says Boasberg. \u201cSo, it is pretty easy to draw the conclusion the people can be somewhat similar. Right now, many families there are sending their kids to private schools. But, we think we can change that simply by injecting some Stapleton kids into the school system.\u201d Boasberg says the plan is to start with the junior high, and then potentially the elementary schools. \u201cStapleton is a kid factory,\u201d said Boasberg. \u201cInstead of continuing to build more schools there, why not bus those kids to other schools to help improve them? It is a very simple plan, and we feel it will yield long-term success.\u201d\nStapleton resident Nikki Clark does not support Boasberg\u2019s plan. \u201cThe reason things have worked out well in Park Hill is because it is so close,\u201d said Clark. \u201cIt is a neighboring community. I don\u2019t think Stapeleton residents will support having their kids being bused to the Highlands, Five Points, or wherever.\u201d Dave Stevens is also strongly against the plan. \u201cI don\u2019t like the idea that DPS simply plans to use our kids as a tool to improve their school system,\u201d says Stevens. \u201cPlus, how are they going to decide who has to go and who gets to stay? This is going to cause a lot of animosity.\u201d Boasberg believes that enough Stapleton residents will step up and enroll in the system. \u201cWe feel enough residents in Stapleton think globally and will want to make other schools in Denver better,\u201d said Boasberg. \u201cIf not, however, it\u2019s draft time.\u201d\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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