WESTMINSTER : Trustees Pressed to Reopen School
Concerned about the growing student population, parents and teachers urged the Westminster School District’s Board of Trustees to reopen one of five schools closed when enrollment declined.
About 100 people attended the Thursday night hearing.
Most of the speakers objected to an alternative plan to change an existing junior high to a middle school. They also opposed adding portable classrooms to existing school sites.
“If the sixth-graders are forced to go to a middle school, I’ll work a second job and my husband will work a second job to pay to send our child to a private school,” said Cynthia Torres, mother of a first-grader.
Teachers Assn. director Richard Snyder also urged the board to reopen a school.
“Those schools were paid for by citizens and that’s what they’re there for,” he said.”It would be foolish for the district to overlook that option.”
Snyder said portable classrooms would create crowding in the cafeteria, media center and computer room.
The district’s elementary schools are filled to capacity with an additional 400 students expected next year.
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