Although I fully understand parents’ concerns about possible relocation from their neighborhood school, I was an overflow, relocated kid and loved it.
My progressive, college-lab, famous, neighborhood public elementary school was overcrowded by the time I was in second grade. Although my big sister was already there and I’d already been there 2 years, I was bused away from my school to what was considered the crummy, under-performing more multi-ethnic school south of the railroad tracks.  I learned later that the parents were vocally against it

I remember that time as my happiest in school. To this day—fifty years later–thoughts of that other school evoke such pleasant emotions in me.  I loved it, everything about it! The bus! The kids! Lunch! Learning! Cursive! New faces! New ways of doing things that made me happy! I missed it terribly when eventually the school district sent me back to my neighborhood school. I wish I could have stayed there.

Kids are resilient, and they will all be just fine.

I am grateful that the leadership team of the Milton Public Schools puts our kids’ and our families’ best interests above all else.

Annie Davis