ARDMORE, OK -– We first told you about the annexation debate on Sunday night. Some families in the southwest Ardmore area want to be rezoned into the Plainview School District. Members of the Neighborhood Boundary Committee explained why they want to be annexed from the Ardmore District on Sunday. Now other residents in the area who want to remain part of the Ardmore City School District are speaking out.

“Not everyone who lives in the areas that are involved are for the annexation,” Sharon McAnally explained to First News.

“There are a lot of us who are against it.”

McAnally and her husband built their home on Marsh Lane because it was in the Ardmore School District. McAnally’s daughter and son both graduated from Ardmore High School.

But now Ardmore School District voters like McAnally will be deciding whether or not to annex the area to the Plainveiw School District.

“I personally feel that we don't need to lose any of the homes in our school district,” McAnally said. “There's not a lot room for growth. We are a little bit land-locked.”

There are approximately 148 houses in the L-shaped area in question. McAnally said she will vote for the district lines to stay the way they are drawn and those homes to remain in the Ardmore District.

“I hate for all of us to have to change our boundaries and district because there are a few parents who are not satisfied with the district they are in,” McAnally said.

But McAnally, who is a retired Ardmore Middle School teacher and counselor, said the possible annexation affects more than just the parents who live in the area.

Katie Parish and Kathrine Patterson are Ardmore High School juniors. They do not live in the area in question, but they feel they could still be affected by the proposal, because if the Ardmore District is forced to annex those homes, the district will also lose the respective tax on those properties. The pair has been handing out copies of an information flyer that the Ardmore Superintendent, Dr. Ruth Ann Carr, mailed home with their report cards.

“We support our school so strongly and we feel so passionately about all this,” Parish explained. “We have friends in the district who don't want to change schools.”

Regardless of what side of the fence you are on, both girls and McAnally say the most important thing is that people get out and vote.

“I do hope that all the patrons of Ardmore School District get out and vote,” McAnally said.

To hear from those in favor of rezoning, check out Sunday's report from Tom Johnson.