Fellow Riverbend Plantation Residents
We need your Help Today!
We need your Help Today!
With the new addition of Veterans High School next year our neighborhood has been zoned for Warner Robins High School. We are the only section of Bonaire that will not be zoned for Veterans High School.
How will this affect you?
Whether you have kids or not – this decision will impact you!
All of our children’s friends that grow up together through Bonaire Elementary and Bonaire Middle will no longer go to school together once they enter High School.
We are part of Bonaire and should be included in Veteran’s zoning with the rest of Bonaire.
We pay high taxes and are in the county. Now that we have a new high school in the county which is close in proximity to us, why should we be sent to Warner Robins High School?
Many kids will be bused in from across town to Warner Robins High. We are being used for diversifying “socio-economic” status, as stated in the Telegraph on Wednesday.
Per Mr. Thublin (assistant superintendent for finance & business ops) at rezoning forum on 27 Oct, the primary reasons for the Thompson Mill communities being zoned to WR high were the following:
Each school zone needs to have a “growth zone” for their population – we are one of the few now zoned for WR
The goal (per a verbal recommendation from the Dept of Justice in 2004) was to have each school contain 36% African-American students (+/- 10%). He stated that our predominately Caucasian communities would drive down the average at Veterans (if we were added) to below the 26% threshold.
Don’t have school age kids?
What about future potential homebuyers – they may have kids, how will this zoning decision impact potential homebuyers perception and decision making?
Perception is reality – potential home buyers will more than likely want their children to attend the high school w/ the newest and best (perceived) resources.
If we are the only section of Bonaire zoned differently, houses may not sell as well in our subdivisions.
There is a group of us that would like to lobby for a zoning change from the current proposed status of Warner Robins High School to Veterans High School. We cannot do it alone, please let your voice be heard!
The RPMIA Inc. Board of Directors is interested in your opinion on this issue. Please email any comments to rpmiainc@windstream.net or call Byrd and Company at 478-971-2600 to discuss.
If a majority of our residents either support or oppose the HCBE zoning maps, the Association could take formal action in support of or in opposition to these maps. Please let us know what you think!
