The girls and I canvased part of the neighborhood today to make sure we were connecting with all parents in the area and to ask them to get involved in the process.
We found 3 families with 6 kids either going to Indian Hills now, or starting to attend next year. Two of those families had not heard about the boundary changes and were very concerned. I invited them to the meeting tomorrow night and asked them to get engaged.
What was really nice was the great support from the families that we talked to that had older kids in Brown or Century. They commented on how they would have felt to get kicked out of Indian Hills and one parent with no kids even asked if we had a petition that they could sign once I explained why we were walking the neighborhood.
We got drenched and frozen but a break for tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches helped get us re-energized. I had to reprint my map on waterproof map paper to keep the inkjet print from smudging, that is great stuff, like plastic paper you can print and write on.
Conclusion: People are just fundamentally nice, even when you show up dripping on their doorstep on a Sunday afternoon.
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