Parents share thoughts on new schools at CMS community sessions WSOC TV [Video]

CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School district is hearing from parents on plans to build several new schools. The district has been hosting a series of community engagement sessions on the next round of new schools to be built.

On Thursday, the focus was a new middle school in south Charlotte off Tom Short Road that will relieve overcrowding at Community House and Jay M. Robinson middle schools, in addition to Rea Farms K-8.

There’s excitement but some parents are also concerned about the new school that set off a recent redrawing of middle school attendance boundary lines.

“We were just put through a huge boundary rezoning last year and so there is a little apprehension about how long are we going to be here before we get put somewhere else,” said Shannon Denholm.

The area is experiencing a lot of growth.

“I see houses on this map that are going to be zoned to a totally different school, …