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Parents, neighbors, alumni and kids across the district asked BVSD to vote no on its school-closure plan. BVSD approved it 5–2 on September 22. Here’s one voice:
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My family lived in the Paul Nor neighborhood directly behind Douglass Elementary and all three of us kids grew up being able to walk to school. We also played there in the summers. Having an elementary school within safe walking distance of an entire neighborhood, and less than a five minute drive from numerous others is an amazing benefit to the community. It’s also very close to Platt Middle School where numerous students continue on to allowing friendships to continue on into a new type of schooling which can be disorienting at first.