This petition asks the School Board to:

• Adopt Superintendent Reid’s initial recommendations without amendment regarding WSHS
• Provide the WSHS pyramid with stability by rejecting further boundary review in 2027 

We are parents and families from every neighborhood across the West Springfield High School pyramid - from Sangster, Irving, Hunt Valley, West Springfield ES and Orange Hunt. For the past year and a half, we've attended countless meetings, submitted feedback, and clearly expressed our unified position: our pyramid wants to remain intact.

Two School Board members, Sandy Anderson and Kyle McDaniel, said in public meetings they want to put our community on a "watch list" for potential boundary changes in 2027. This is unacceptable. After 18 months of engagement, our community is asking for time—time for residency checks, programmatic improvements, and enrollment projections to work as intended. 

We ask our elected leaders to reflect upon the harm caused when communities are kept in a permanent state of uncertainty. Perpetual review does not allow real solutions to take hold. Instead, it creates fear, suspicion, and division—pitting neighbors against one another while avoiding enforcement and investment at the system level. 

Our community participated fully and in good faith, trusting that the conclusion of this process would bring closure. As parents and voters, we expect our elected representatives to advocate for enforcement, stability, and solutions—not repeated disruption.

Please sign our petition asking the school board to adopt Superintendent Reid's initial recommendations and do not add West Springfield High School to a watchlist for further review in 2027.

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CLARIFICATION: This petition doesn't touch on issues at the elementary school level. 

Dear School Board Members,

We are writing collectively as parents from neighborhoods across the entire West Springfield High School pyramid. Although different elementary areas have been repeatedly examined during the past two years, we are not separate communities. We are one West Springfield pyramid and we are united in our request to remain whole.

Our diverse neighborhoods are deeply connected. Our children grow up together—playing sports, carpooling, riding bikes, and spending summers together. We are a walkable, bikeable community where friendships and daily life naturally cross elementary boundaries. Treating parts of our pyramid as interchangeable solutions has unnecessarily divided neighbors who, in reality, share one community and one identity.

Throughout this process, families across West Springfield have been consistent and clear: no community wants to be moved out of its school. We have also been clear that operating over capacity is preferable to boundary changes. Other pyramids get to take advantage of “creative solutions” like modulars that keep them under the 105% target, but for our pyramid we have not been offered any solutions other than ousting currently zoned students. The focus should be on residency verification and meaningful programmatic improvements—not on shifting boundaries that fracture cohesive communities. The challenges facing the division are complex, and therefore demand real solutions. Boundary changes are not an “easy button.” They disrupt stable communities while avoiding the harder work of enforcement, investment, and equity.

The consultant’s work, the Boundary Review Advisory Committee, extensive public input, and the Superintendent’s recommendation all point to the same conclusion: this process should end. Board policy already provides for future review when warranted. Reopening or extending deliberations now, by placing us on a watchlist, only prolongs uncertainty and erodes trust in the process.

We are speaking with one voice—as one West Springfield High School pyramid. We want to keep our current neighbors, our current boundaries, and our shared community intact. We want our children to continue growing up and attending school together.

Thank you to the Superintendent and her staff for listening to our community and hearing our concerns. We urge the Board to accept the Superintendent’s recommendation as written, reject amendments that prolong or reopen boundary discussions for West Springfield, and allow our community the stability and closure it has repeatedly requested.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Neighborhoods of the West Springfield High School Pyramid:

Families of Sangster/Irving/West Springfield Parents Collective

Families of Hunt Valley Families South of the Parkway

Families of West Springfield

Families of Orange Hunt