RICHARDSON – Steven and Pamela Hughes, active PTA members, are facing new challenges this year as their sons, Dillon and AJ, attend different elementary schools due to Richardson Independent School District’s Project RightSize.
“It’s now PTAs—multiple,” Pamela Hughes said. “It’s a lot of scheduling changes.”
Their sixth and fourth graders would have attended Dartmouth Elementary together, but a multimillion-dollar deficit led to the closure of five schools. Trustees redrew attendance zones to absorb students into other schools.
AJ Hughes applied for a transfer to remain at Dartmouth, while Dillon rides his bike to Yale Elementary.
“It’s like me and three other friends in my class,” Dillon said. “We’re trying to get to know all the other Yale kids.”
The change is challenging for Dillon, who had one more year of elementary school before heading to seventh grade. The Hughes family is making every effort to ease the transition.