Parents, community respond to proposed school closings

Published: Jun 25, 2024 Duration: 00:02:40 Category: News & Politics
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online at NBC 4. I dot com. We'll help you stay weather aware and safe. All right. Now, a number of Columbus City schools are on the potential chopping block after a district task force recommended closing them in the near future. >> And you can bet parents will have a lot to say about those recommendations. Of course, there are already speaking out about this. Nbc forces McCleary joins us now. Obviously an emotional issue. That's right, 10, Jared, but we're actually hearing one emotion that we haven't heard on this topic in a while. And that is hope. >> Some say they see the time that went into this decision. Others are excited to see a pause in the process and look forward to giving their input. One CCS parents as seen her kids school on the West, brought her to tears by will be on rolling. >> My my children from the school district and home schooling them. >> If the school clothes as she walks her kids to West brought elementary. She says the other options are ones she can do. I'm hoping that now that they've decided to pause the vote we can have more community engagement and they will decide not to close westbound. Ultimately, West Broad Elementary is one of the 9 schools on the closing list. The others are broadly Fairwood Lindbergh more North Linden Elementary schools, Buckeye Middle School Columbus city preparatory School for Boys and Mcguffey Road facility which houses Columbus Alternative High School. You want to make me mindful of. >> You know what? Schools are merged together with schools are closed down. Things like that. And then the task force do what they need to do. That executing well on the district's website. It says West Broad can hold 550 students. However, this past school year, 359 were enrolled. >> Others on the list like North Linden Elementary Fit 400 this year. It had 296 enrolled. We look at it from a standpoint. >> Of these buildings a lot of classroom, right? A lot of ability, but not a lot of kids. So you want to be mindful that this pause in the vote is giving organizations and parents hope that their concerns will be heard. We are on the precipice of some true transformation in the district. >> It is not going to be easy. There's a lot of trust to build and rebuild with the community. >> But I think that we are really we're really looking at reconstruction in a new way for very optimistic. >> That in the in the solution that we want to offer is one that is long term and not short time. >> Again, the board has not voted on these recommendations. If they do pass

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