Goodrich- School board trustees voted unanimously Monday to opt out of a program allowing enrollment of students from Lapeer and Oakland counties.
The Genesee Intermediate School District Collaborative Schools of Choice program allows students from contiguous counties to apply for enrollment in participating school districts. While the program allows for trustees to determine the number of students who attend, they can not stipulate the area of the county students from which students are selected. This means students living on the boarder of Genesee County would not be granted preferential treatment as opposed to those living deeper into county lines.
Trustees instead decided to keep their current policy, School of Choice Program 105c. The program allows students to leave the district and to change schools within the district. It does not, however, allow the enrollment of students outside the district.
Trustees expressed concern over allowing students from outside the county to attend while taxpayers are facing the proposition of a bond extension. The difficulty of asking for support of an extension when students whose parents are not contributing would be allowed to attend was echoed by several board members.
?’Why am I paying for a school building so someone else can go?’that’s a question we’ll all have to answer,? said board member Michael Thorp.
Superintendent Kim Hart said two Genesee County school districts’Lakeville and Montrose’currently participate in program 105c.
The board also declined to participate in school of choice program section105, a state wide program allowing a district to accept students from anywhere in Michigan.

Goodrich- School board trustees voted unanimously Monday to opt out of a program allowing enrollment of students from Lapeer and Oakland counties.
The Genesee Intermediate School District Collaborative Schools of Choice program allows students from contiguous counties to apply for enrollment in participating school districts. While the program allows for trustees to determine the number of students who attend, they can not stipulate the area of the county students from which students are selected. This means students living on the boarder of Genesee County would not be granted preferential treatment as opposed to those living deeper into county lines.
Trustees instead decided to keep their current policy, School of Choice Program 105c. The program allows students to leave the district and to change schools within the district. It does not, however, allow the enrollment of students outside the district.
Trustees expressed concern over allowing students from outside the county to attend while taxpayers are facing the proposition of a bond extension. The difficulty of asking for support of an extension when students whose parents are not contributing would be allowed to attend was echoed by several board members.
?’Why am I paying for a school building so someone else can go?’that’s a question we’ll all have to answer,? said board member Michael Thorp.
Superintendent Kim Hart said two Genesee County school districts’Lakeville and Montrose’currently participate in program 105c.
The board also declined to participate in school of choice program section105, a state wide program allowing a district to accept students from anywhere in Michigan.