While rejecting a plan to alter boundaries for Westfield Community School in Algonquin, the Community Unit School District 300 Board of Education set its sights on the borders of other schools.
The board on Monday agreed to reconsider allowing east side Algonquin students to attend Jacobs High School in Algonquin, rather than Dundee Crown High School, where they currently attend.
After voting against a two-week-old request from a group of Westfield parents to address overcrowding at the kindergarten through 8th-grade school, board member Jill Grung asked why the Westfield proposal made it to the agenda so quickly. She asked that a previous decision, prior to her joining the board in November, to send east side Algonquin students to Jacobs, be reconsidered.
Board President Steven Guetschow instructed Supt. Norman Wetzel to include the high school boundaries issue on the agenda for the next board meeting.
In a presentation to the board Feb. 14, Karen Roeckner of Carpentersville, Christie Underwood of Dundee and Cathy Bork of Algonquin asked the board to consider changing the Westfield attendance boundaries to eliminate two subdivisions currently under construction and have new students there attend another school. The residents wanted the board to take action before any students started attending Westfield.
The board voted 4-3 against changing its plan to not make any districtwide boundary changes before the next school year. Previously, the board rejected a three-year plan to address overcrowding with boundary changes.
