As reported on Wednesday, the children of military officers at Maxwell Air force Base can now attend another local school system regardless of where they live.
It's Pike Road. The Elmore and Autauga Schools had already made the same move. "Come on down," they tell Maxwell officers.
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| At Old Alabama Town, NOT a Current Montgomery School. |
Unstated in the stories I read was any mention of the elephant in the room. This is happening because of the continued failures of the Montgomery School system.
Montgomery mayor Todd Strange has already branded the newly elected school board a failure because they didn't immediately approve charter schools. But those are merely another escape clause...for the non-military kids.
Everybody seems determined to make it as easy as possible for students to leave the Montgomery system and take their state funding with them.
Only a handful of Maxwell kids will likely use the new option, but it is another brick in the road that leads to fewer, or at least poorer, true Montgomery public schools, and more area private schools receiving state support or actual financial assistance.
Alabama News Network's story quoted the Pike Road Superintendent:
“Our taxpayers will not feel any impact"
But the Montgomery schools will. Death by a thousand cuts.
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