Parents to Be Polled on Beechwood School
The parents of about 10,000 Fullerton elementary school students soon will be surveyed as the local school district determines what kind of curriculum to offer at the soon-to-reopen Beechwood campus.
Parents will chose between a fundamental back-to-basics school and a traditional kindergarten through sixth-grade neighborhood campus.
At a school board meeting last week, parents, teachers and community members were split.
Some said Beechwood should be a traditional school like others in the district so that the district could redraw boundary lines and help ease overcrowding.
Other community members said they would prefer a fundamental school that emphasizes reading, writing and math, a format that has proved popular at other districts. Students from outside the district could attend the school if spaces were available.
After the results of the survey are tallied, the board expects to make a decision on Beechwood, which will open in September and house about 500 students.
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