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A circuit court judge affirmed a hearing examiner’s findings of fact Monday in the case of a mother, Megan Steever, who attempted to sue the Sioux Falls School District over boundary changes that will send her third grader to George McGovern Middle School in the future, and not to Memorial Middle School.
Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge Jon Sogn affirmed independent hearing examiner Robert Anderson’s ruling in the district’s favor from January, saying the board and district did not act unreasonably, arbitrarily or otherwise abused its discretion in the boundary change issue.
Boundary changes are “seldom, if ever, met with unanimous approval,” Sogn said.
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A Sioux Falls mother who resides in the current boundaries for her children to attend Memorial Middle School wants her children to stay in the Memorial area and not have attend George McGovern Middle School when new Sioux Falls School District boundaries take effect this fall.
Megan Steever, who lives 1 mile from Memorial west of the Tea-Ellis road, has alleged the district and school board acted unreasonably in voting to change boundaries, so she filed a lawsuit against the district. My kids will be assigned to a school 5 miles away, versus a school that is only 1 mile away, Steever told the Argus Leader on Friday.