Uncertain Future Still Faces Shell Point Parents

Shell Point parents have been through the ringer over the past year and a half, over the closing of their elementary school, and Monday night, they faced even more uncertainty over their future. This time it's over what school they'll attend next year.

"We are getting more information about our zone transfers, meaning Broad River, Shanklin, or Beaufort elementary which is how Shell Point has been split, and if we're unhappy with those assignments, we have different options on where our child can attend school next year," said Amy Painton.

And those options were presented to parents at a meeting Monday night. They include transfers to Lady's Island Elementary, Shanklin Elementary, St. Helena Elementary, and other general transfers, meaning students could be going all over and that is a concern for some parents.

"They are scattering our children to many many different schools, and that was not what was presented to parents well over a year and a half ago. Children will be going to five or six different schools and I think that really hurts the educational aspect that Shell Point has been so strong in for so long," said parent Lisa Kindwall.

And to parents none of this makes sense.

"In the beginning, the whole reason they wanted to close a school was to fill seats, and in essence I feel like they are creating the same problem again by letting us go to five possibly six other schools in the north of the Broad area," said Painton.

Aside from the confusion and frustration for parents, they say the kids are the ones suffering-- in not knowing where they'll be going next year.

"It's hard on our children cause they really don't know, we just recently had assignments, but now theres choices to go other places, so where they thought they were going to go, now they may be going somewhere else. It is a difficult time for our children, they want some security and they want to know who they're going to go to school with, and where they're going to go to school," said Kindwall.

Another interesting fact, the Office of Civil Rights, which has to sign off on all school closures, has not yet approved the closing of Shell Point -- which means things are still up in the air.

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