Please Help me save our school!
If you have not seen it, http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/10/21/1777018/parents-students-plead-to-save.html CMS is still planning to close Oakhurst Elementary. This time they are looking to move the population from the Morgan School into the building after closing the Magnet and the neighborhood school ( earlier they wanted to close the magnet and rehome the montessouri schools). I need your help once again in fighting the closure of a tremendous resource for our kids. As you know my sons have both attended Oakhurst, and one still does. The proposal has yet to be accompanied by a proforma that details savings vs cost to the education system. There is no focus on closure of underperforming schools. There has also been no indication of how they plan to continue the OI designated students education in any location. Oakhurst is a school that has been retrofitted and provided the resources to care for physically handicapped students. There is no way they could thrive with the Morgan school population . I see this as a poorly planned attempt to address fiscal needs with no sound projection of either fiscal nor educational success if executed. Please take a moment to write to the school board to save our school! I am scared for my son and the children of Oakhurst who should not bear the cost of CMS over-building and then saving the suburban schools at the cost of our city schools.
The email addresses of the school board follow:
'ericc.davis@cms.k12.nc.us'; 'tom.tate@cms.k12.nc.us'; 'kayemcgarry@cms.k12.nc.us'; 'trent.merchant@cms.k12.nc.us'; 'coachjoew@cms.k12.nc.us'; 'ronda.lennon@cms.k12.nc.us'; 'richard.mcelrath@cms.k12.nc.us'; 'joyce.waddell@cms.k12.nc.us'; 'tim.morgan@cms.k12.nc.us'
Please take a moment to help with an email !