I think the new Unit 5 redistricting plan needs revision.

Part of the plan affects so few people. The new redistricting will send about 30 students each year from Chiddix Junior High to Normal West while all others from Chiddix will be sent to Normal Community. From Parkside Junior High, about 20 students will go to Normal Community while all other students from Parkside will go to Normal West.

This plan is unfair. It is splitting up people. It is making friends say goodbye and is making people start all over. It is going to be extremely hard for those who are being sent to the opposite school from most of the other students from their junior high.

Starting high school is hard enough, now they have to start at a new school knowing only a small group of other students.

This topic is very close to me. I am one of the students who is affected by this new plan and some of my friends are, too. Because of this plan next year, I have to say goodbye to many of my friends because they will be at one school and I will be at the other.

This plan affects everyone, friends saying goodbye and students starting over. Please think of all the people you are hurting by this plan and please make it better for us students. Please don’t follow through with this plan.

Renee Jiles, Normal