The Board votes September 22
Now tell the Board how you feel
A ready-to-send email for every board member, opening with these words. About two minutes.
Write to the Board →My family has lived in the foothills and around the school since 2003. We moved a number of times over the years, and through all of it, the school was the one constant in our children's lives, the thread that held things together across the Sugarloaf, Four Mile, and Sunshine communities. That kind of continuity matters enormously to kids growing up in the mountains. Losing it now would land on a neighborhood that is already under serious pressure. The new occupancy rules have opened the door to opportunistic development, much of it driven by entities from outside the area with little stake in what happens here after the deal closes. The community fabric is fraying. A school closure would be one more fracture in something already fragile. What makes this school worth fighting for is that it has never served just the families closest to it. Placing it centrally, accessible to both mountain and local kids, has created a community larger than any single neighborhood. That breadth has been quietly good for Boulder as a whole. It connects people who might otherwise live parallel lives in the same county. I am a professor at CU and a parent who has watched this place do that work for over two decades. Closing the school doesn't just affect enrollment numbers. It removes something that cannot easily be rebuilt once it's gone.
The Board votes September 22
A ready-to-send email for every board member, opening with these words. About two minutes.
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