Parents are wondering how kids will cope with the closures after the pandemic, and teachers are worried they’ll lose valuable connections with students. Others are worried about how a school closure will change the neighborhood they live in.
After Anchorage School District administrators this week recommended closing six elementary schools after the current school year to help balance its budget, the news began to filter through communities and ricochet throughout the political world.
Northwood is special to her, and the recommendation to close it is devastating, Messick said. It’s common to see kids walking to and from Northwood, which turns 70 next year, she said. The elementary school is a big part of the Spenard community, Messick said, and the kids use the school’s playground all summer.
“This school is a second home,” Klassen wrote over email. “I feel this would be very hard on her specifically because of the COVID pandemic.”was the first year that began to feel normal, she said. Krista Sandhoefner has been a teacher at Klatt Elementary for 16 years. She currently teaches sixth grade there. Sandhoefner said she knew closing schools was on the table but said she never thought Klatt would be considered since it’s at 92% capacity.
“I’ve already heard from people that have some despair and some angst about what this is,” said George Martinez, president of the Northeast Community Council, which represents the area where Nunaka Valley Elementary is located.this summer to shutter a mass homeless shelter at Sullivan Arena and direct unhoused individuals to stay at the campground in the area.“There’s kind of a feeling in East Anchorage that there’s a target on the backs of our community,” Martinez said.
“A lot of these denser parts of the district where we had two underutilized schools next to each other happened to be Title I schools — that’s the reason why we wound up with that situation,” Bingham said.
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