The regular school board meeting of the Frisco ISD Board of Trustees held Monday discussed the proposed attendance zone changes for the 2017-2018 school year, legislative priorities, and District of Innovation updates.

Approximately 10 parents began the meeting by voicing their concerns about attendance rezoning, including increased drive length to schools, student separation from siblings, and standards of education at specific schools.

“I have [three kids] that will hopefully be attending Gunstream, and we want to voice our opposition to the rezoning request that would move the kids from Gunstream to Christie, because the scores are lower at Christie than at Gunstream,” FISD parent Ryan Greg said. “I moved my family to Frisco specifically because of the great schools and in particular because of Gunstream’s high rankings, if we get rezoned it would mean we would be rethinking living in Frisco because I don’t feel like the standards are up to what I hope for, for my kids at Gunstream.”

The FISD Board of Trustees assured parents they are looking at what’s best for students in regards to rezoning for the upcoming year and for years in the future with a final decision expected at the Jan. 9 regular board meeting.

“We’re doing what we call minimal rezoning, from a district wide perspective, next year based on what we see from the demographer,” a FISD Board of Trustees member said. “There may be some more strategic rezoning so that we don’t have to have any additional construction costs that come with opening a school.”