Staff, teachers and families have presented questions and feedback during 14 meetings in advance of a proposal to downsize the district.
Susan Simpson places a sticker signaling her approval to a bullet point on an SAISD plan depicted in posters at the final community meeting at Longfellow Middle School on Tuesday evening.Teachers, students, parents and community members got one last chance Tuesday to provide feedback on how the San Antonio Independent School District will decide which schools will close and what consolidation could look like in the 2024-25 school year.
About 100 people at Longfellow Middle School in Northwest San Antonio met the light-hearted reflection with laughter, but Aquino’s face was serious as he thanked the crowd for providing feedback that the district will use over the next six days to finalize a recommendation of schools for closure. Trustee Ed Garza, who broached the process of downsizing months before the board took up the issue for a vote, reminisced on a similar situation the district found itself in in 2008, when Horace Mann Junior High and other schools were closed due to declining enrollment.
According to the district, enrollment is worse now than the “worst case scenario” projected in 2008. While feedback from each meeting — handwritten on sticky notes — has been transcribed and posted on SAISD’s website, the district has yet to share how the thousands of observations and conversations will influence the closure recommendations.
“I find it ironic that there is not a citizen-to-be-heard, or a microphone anywhere in the process,” he said. “It would be nice if there was a microphone in some place in case somebody needs to say something.”Feedback from many meetings focused on ensuring no building was left empty, providing continuity of educational programming for all students and considerations of transportation needs. Ensuring equity throughout the process and as an end result was also a common theme.
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