“Starting a child in a school and then moving them to another school that is much further away is unacceptable,” wrote one Fox parent. “We urge you to think about what this does to our neighborhood and the kids in it.”

Said a Cary parent: “Both white and minority students would stand to benefit from being integrated. It’s 2019. Why are we still having the segregation debate?!”

In North Side, students would go to Holton through second grade and then transition to Ginter Park for grades three through five.

Kenya Gibson, who represents North Side on the School Board, said the conversation of integrating schools is “long overdue” while adding that it’s important for the district to address overcrowding.

“This work must be done right,” she said. “At this point, I think it’s premature to support any of the current options because there are problems we haven’t yet solved for, and questions we haven’t yet answered.

“At the end of the day, these plans won’t work without buy-in from families throughout the city. As eager as we are to transform our schools, these are big changes and change makes folks uneasy, whether we like it or not. But I think we can win trust and buy-in if we take the time to fill in the blanks together.”