Riverview Gardens Picks Kirkwood as Second District for Paid Transportation of its Students
After Mehlville voiced concerns about having only enough space for 150 of all the transfer students from Riverview Gardens who wanted to attend there, I was curious where RG would choose as their second choice district. Now they even had some solid numbers to know where their students preferred to attend. If they had been looking out for their own students they would have selected a district already picked by a large number of their students like Ferguson-Florissant (200*), Hazelwood (149*) or Pattonville (60*), so that those students could have buses to ride there and not have to be driven every morning and afternoon. But instead they selected the Kirkwood school district , a choice picked by only 13 of their students. Plus Kirkwood is a smaller district with only one high school who has already stated they can only take in about 100 additional students . This choice makes almost no sense at all, unless Riverview Gardens is just trying to save money and deter as many studen...