backstory here
The school board meeting was packed with concerned parents. Nine separate recommendations, most dealing with the closing or amalgamation of small schools. Seven heartfelt petitions read.
Eight recommendations passed, heart-broken people gearing up to do whatever they could in the next step of the process.
Our school was the last recommendation to be read. And the motion to review the school (aka get ready to close).....
FAILED.
Our little school -the village school - my son's school - will not be targeted to close. It will stay open, open and welcoming to the children of the area. Teaching them life-lessons and rooting them in their surroundings, showing them their history. Giving them roots and wings in our community.
Sometimes failure is a good thing.
19 comments:
Jess, I am so happy for you! Cass's school sounds like it is such an asset to your community, from what you've said in the past.
Doing a happy dance for the failure!
Yeah! More than an hour on a school bus would suck for anyone much less our Miss Rosey-Posey!
Yay! Congrats for this victory. I know how important it is to keep that school open. I am so happy for you and your community.
Congratulations. Nice to know commons sense wins sometimes.
BIG SMILE. Wonderful.
that's such good news. The school district Shortman was in for kindergarten - 9th grade started closing schools when he was in 8th grade.
It was such a sad time to see the neighborhood schools - the ones kids could walk to and learn from, the ones that teachers loved - close down.
That is fantastic!
Woohoo!
Hooray!
That's so great! The tiny K-5 elementary school I went to, where my mother was the Lunch Lady for more than thirty years, closed a few years ago. I'll always regret not having been around to help fight for its survival.
Yay for you and yours!
Hooray for small miracles!
Yeah. We need to get back to neighbourhood schools. It's not progress to make kids go to school miles away from the place they live, so they can't see their friends after school without complicated arrangements, and they never feel that their school is part of their community. Yay for your school and occasional failure....
congratulations! nicely done!
Way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even the words "little village school" are enough for me to vote "stay open"
Go you guys! That is a wonderful victory. Seems little schools are endangered everywhere.
Yay!! You must be so relieved!
Yippee!
That's fantastic news!!! Well done to the community!
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