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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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Neighborhood social patterns are built around the relationships that grow through caring for our children. Patterns of interfamily support, communication, cooperation, as well as neighborhood safety and security begin and are nourished by neighborhood schools. The geography of schools is a primary structuring force of the social patterns of a neighborhood. Disrupting those structural patterns rather than supporting them is the source of the resistance you have to the current plan, and a strategic error with probable numerous long range consequences. Authority comes from the top down. Power comes from the bottom up. Good leadership helps people feel positive about making changes. Strategy is the craft of figuring out which purposes are both worth pursuing and capable of being accomplished. When you can successfully articulate recognizing key values of those neighborhood patterns into specific steps that fit your financial boundaries you will have a good strategy leading to the best community perceived long range with community concurrence