Parents applaud dissenters on school rezoning

Eastern School District trustees voted Wednesday night to examine rezoning all eight elementary schools in Charlottetown.

The vote came in spite of repeated applause for trustees speaking against rezoning. The 300 parents who were at the meeting are worried rezoning will upset their kids and disrupt their education.

Rezoning is part of the school board's solution to accommodate nearly 1,000 kindergarten students who will join schools next fall in the eastern district. Kindergarten is currently housed in private facilities.

Trustees also voted to look at rezoning in a couple of areas outside Charlottetown at Donagh School, east of Charlottetown, and within the Morell family of schools.

The school board is also talking about building new classrooms onto some existing schools.

The school board's ad hoc committee plans to compile a report by the end of January. Public meetings on that report will follow, with a final vote on rezoning sometime in late winter.