Miami School District Negotiation

Miami School District Negotiation

Miami School District Negotiation Paper

Introduction

The Miami School District is about to rezone the school boundaries for the upcoming year because of a huge influx of students. The problem with rezoning the school district?s boundaries is the amount of students who will not be able to stay at their present school. Parents are not very happy about this situation and have given five different oppositions to this plan. The reasons are: quality of education, increased travel time, crossing economic and cultural boundaries, impact on property values, and social impacts on children. This paper will discuss the impacts of these reasons for objections, who the stakeholders? are, a negotiation strategy that will support the school board?s need to redraw boundaries while addressing the concerns of stakeholders?, and how the ethical and cultural differences will impact the decision made.

Impact of Objection

The parents of the students involved in the rezoning of the school district have given five reasons why they do not want the rezone to happen. The reasons are: quality of education, increased travel time, crossing economic and cultural boundaries, social impacts on the children. The first reason against the rezoning of the school district was quality of education. In this case, the parents do not know the teachers who will be involved with their children. Some parents may have to switch from a private school which has very few teachers, one-on-one time with their students, and very close to the family themselves. Now, their students are going to a school that was so big it had to rezone the boundaries. The teachers will not be able to give that one-on-one time with their children. This new school their children have to attend now may not have the same standards as the school they were previously attending. Another resisting factor that may be involved is if the children will have the same opportunities as they did attending the other school. The second reason was the increased travel time. Since the district is spreading across town, the district is getting bigger and including many people who may be on the complete opposite side of town. If many people drive to the school, a parent may have to leave almost an hour before school starts. Depending on how far the district is spreading, some people may have to leave for school much earlier than that.

Many families may have to move into the city or closer to the school, in order to have appropriate travel time to get to class. The next reason parents are against the rezoning of the district is crossing economic and cultural boundaries. The parents are concerned about what the children may be exposed to when they attend this new school district. Many of the parents may have put their children in private schools in order to keep them away from certain cultural and or poorer children. Now that they have to attend the school district they are afraid of what may happen ...