This petition is in opposition to including the students who pertain to the Glen Arden Elementary School District in the planned Charles T. Koontz Intermediate School.

The school is proposed to have grades 5 and 6 and include the students from the Avery's Creek, Estes and Glen Arden Elementary Schools.

Students from Fairview and Glen Arden (who will meet at CCMS for 7th and 8th grades) do not have an equitable education due to major differences in 6th grade academic opportunities

We, the below signed, oppose including the Glen Arden Students for the following (and perhaps more) reasons.

1) Students from Fairview and Glen Arden (who will meet at Cane Creek MS for 7th and 8th) will not have an equitable education due to major differences in 6th grade academic opportunities.

2) Geographic distance from the 4 schools our children will attend is dramatic.

3) The children who attend the 4 schools (Glen Arden, CT Koontz, Cane Creek MS, TC Roberson) will have a dramatic change in their peer group every 2 years during a developmentally challenging time.

4) Property values in the area will be affected as possible buyers realize the impact for their children and choose to go to other areas.

This list is not all inclusive and most of the parents who are in the core group who started this petition are okay with the idea of a 5/6 school. It can be a beneficial thing. OUR OPPOSITION is based on taking the GAES kids and "throwing" them from one district to another every 2 years. It changes their "community" and if "It takes a Village" WHY ARE YOU BREAKING OURS UP?