School districts clamp down on transfer requests

04-07-2010

By Hannah Dreier/Contra Costa Times

Debbie Barnes was shocked when she received a letter last spring from the Oakley elementary school district saying that her daughter could no longer go to the small Knightsen school that she had attended for four years. The Bethel Island family lives within the boundaries of the Oakley school district but send their 10-year-old daughter, Autumn, to the Knightsen district, which has a rural atmosphere. "First, second, third, fourth grade, no problem," Debbie Barnes said. "I went in to do the fifth-grade year, all of a sudden, Oakley had decided they weren't doing transfers anymore." Barnes said her daughter "just totally freaked out that she might not be able to go to the school she's gone to for years — she didn't understand." (more...)

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