Members of the group were protesting their potential reassignment out of Davis Drive as part of Wake County’s 2008 growth management proposal.

“I’m just here to show my support for the community,” said Sandy Joiner, a parent with a fourth-grader at the school. She is hoping for her youngest, Aiden, to attend kindergarten next year at Davis Drive. “It’s been a stable school for my kids.”

Many who walked in protest would not be personally effected by the reassignment.

“It’s upset us just as much as the people who are being moved,” said Tamara Burns.

Burns said with the current reassignment proposal, many of the school’s PTA members would be moved elsewhere.'

“They can make [the school] as diverse, economically, as they want to, but they can’t take our volunteer base away,” Burns said. “It’s going to ruin our school. We’re a family.”