About the authorHeather Abreu is the Visual Arts teacher at Colfax Elementary and serves as an ECE teacher all the way through fifth grade. She's also a parent of two middle school students inside of Denver Public Schools, and is the Northwest Sector A Board of Directors member on the Denver Classroom Teacher's Association.
I think that [consolidating/closing schools] is something that needs to be reconsidered and reevaluated. It's so important to consider budget when trying to be a mighty district. Something that's also important to consider is: What is needed to have vibrant, mighty school culture? And some of our schools — including Colfax Elementary — are small, but mighty, in the way that we're trying to approach this hard work that we call education.
I wonder if the School Board knows that eight out of ten of the schools on the selected list have 80% or more of free and reduced lunch provided for their families. I just… I wonder if they are aware of other statistics, other means of communities on the list that play a factor in making education stronger in smaller communities? I just wonder if that's also a part of what they're aware of when making this decision.
I hate looking at and considering the idea of it being a numbers game in my classroom, let alone inside of the district; or trying to look at something solely from a budget perspective, because then it's no longer about students first and it's no longer about unity, if we can't consider everything that goes into unifying a community.
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