Students from Kedron Hills

subdivision in Peachtree City are feeling left out, according to Maria

Kachadurian, a parent who lives there.

A survey of the community conducted

the fact that Kedron Hills children are forced to leave their classmates

behind when they move up from elementary school to middle and high school,

Kachadurian told the Board of Education Monday night.

"Our concern is the social

impact that the current zoning has on our children," Kachadurian

said.

Kedron Hills children attend

Kedron Elementary School along with their surrounding peers, but when

school districts were redrawn two years ago, the subdivision was cut out

of the pattern for the rest of Peachtree City on to Booth Middle School

and McIntosh High. The Kedron Hills children go to Flat Rock Middle and

Sandy Creek High.

There's nothing wrong with

those schools, Kachadurian hastened to say, adding that the problem is

the social disruption.

All of the other children in

their churches, scouting groups and other social organizations attend

Booth and McIntosh, she said, and those groups' events are often planned

around the schedules at their schools.

"Our children often are

left out," she said.

And if they want to socialize

with their Flat Rock and Sandy Creek classmates, she added, they face

"commutes of up to 30 minutes to play with their school mates.

"The children have very

little interaction with their classmates because of this," she said.

The neighborhood is asking

the board to consider switching their students to Booth and McIntosh in

the next round of redistricting when new schools come on line in the next

couple of years. Or if the Kedron Hills students are placed in a new school,

they want the board to "insure that we are not the only Peachtree

City neighborhood attending the school," Kachadurian said.

Board Chairman Mickey Littlefield

thanked Kachadurian for her input and directed school board staff to take

her comments under advisement.

Redistricting talks have not

yet begun for the new schools, said Superintendent John DeCotis. That

won't begin until a third and final school site is purchased.

Board members discussed a site

Monday night, but did not make the purchase.

Once they know the locations

of all the new schools, school board staff will come up with recommended

boundary lines, and then the public will be asked for comment, said DeCotis.

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