The Board of Trustees held something of a public forum Monday night, allowing parents and community members the chance to offer their input on the 2018-19 preliminary attendance zone released in October.

“I’m a mom within Frisco ISD, and I am a teacher at Vandeventer Middle School,” attendee Natalie Hebert said. “So I came to the board meeting to hear about what the board has to say on the rezoning, their policies, and their plans for the future.”

Monday was the only scheduled opportunity for community input and while some parents and staff were simply trying to understand the process, at least one parent had more personal concerns.

“My son is a sixth grader at Scoggins Middle School and the proposed rezoning has him moving to Lawler, right now we are right across the street from Scoggins. There are only about 30 middle schoolers in our community so it really won’t affect the numbers, and Lawler is about three and a half miles away from our house and he would have to take a bus.”

The Board of Trustees is expected to approve attendance zones at its next monthly meeting on December 11.

Along with talk of rezoning, the school’s girls’ cross country team along with 17 National Merit semifinalists were recognized in front of the district for their achievements.

“We brought our medals and Coach Burtch announced us and our achievements,” senior Gaby Leyva-Montiel said. “It really brought the season to an end because today is our banquet and last night we were recognized so it just brought closure to my fourth season in cross country.”

17 of the 43 National Merit Semifinalists from the district are students at the school, and they too were announced and awarded for their academic success.

“It felt pretty awesome to get the certificate it kinda felt like all the hard work paid off, quite literally,” senior Havish Gattu said. “We were told that almost everyone who’s a semi finalist becomes a finalist as long as they write an essay so it wasn’t as exciting as when we found out we were semifinalists but I’m just really grateful to have the opportunity.”