MIAMI -- Parents who packed the Alonzo and Tracy Mourning High School in North Miami Beach Thursday night were not happy.

Many were fighting proposed school boundary changes that would move their children from Sunny Isles Community School to Ojus Elementary in North Miami Beach.

But instead of being able to speak out, parents in the audience were told to write their questions on notecards for board members to read.

A Miami-Dade school board representative said that was standard procedure so the questions were on record.

"We did not know we weren't going to be able to ask questions," one parent told Local 10's Janine Stanwood.

Some residents of Eastern Shores told Local 10 they moved there specifically to send their children to school in Sunny Isles.

Miami-Dade number crunchers, however, said the school is overcrowded and will get worse once 8th grade is added.

The solution: move about 70 students, many from Eastern Shores, to an older Ojus Elementary.

The two schools are roughly three miles apart. Eastern shores is more or less in the middle.

Parents said they are not as concerned about distance as they are about Biscayne Boulevard.

A child who normally walks or bikes to school would likely have to cross several lanes of traffic to get across.

But area superintendent Enid Weisman said that although she does not like to move students around, the the district must abide by class-size guidelines. She said all the schools in her area are excellent.

Ojus is an A school.

The Miami Dade School District will hold more meetings before making a desicion sometime in February.