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School Board Votes To Close Carver/Century
March 18, 2009
Carver/Century K-8 School will close forever at the end of this school year; the Escambia County School Board has voted 3-2 to close the school.
Less than a dozen Century residents attended Tuesday night’s school board meeting, some making last minute pleas to keep the school open.
“I’ve pleaded every way I know how. I just ask that before you go into your vote that you ask yourselves if you have done everything you can do to save this school,” Century Mayor Freddie McCall told the board. “Spare us if at all possible. Give us that three years that I have asked for.”
But in the end, just two board members — Bill Slayton and Linda Moultrie — voted against closing the school.
“It is very important to this community…very important to the north end of Escambia County,” Slayton said. “I’m concerned.”
“I’m really concerned about the children,” Moultrie said. “Are we doing the right thing for the children of that community?”
School Superintendent Malcolm Thomas told the board that a majority of parents had already decided how they felt about the school, with 56 percent of the parents in the Carver/Century district sending their children to other schools. Of the 473 students in the Carver/Century attendance zone, only 210 attended the school when Thomas analyzed data prior to recommending the closure.
“We struggle year after year to subsidize the school,” Thomas said, noting that the district would save about $600,000 per year by closing the school. Most importantly, the students will be moved to Bratt Elementary, an A-school for five consecutive years, and Ernest Ward Middle, also an A-school. Carver/Century was an F-school prior to rising to a B-school last year.
“They have proven that they can sustain excellence,” Thomas said of both Ernest Ward and Bratt.
Thomas asked the board to support closing Carver/Century for dollars and cents reasons.
“You will save money that will save jobs,” he told the board.
“You would think you were sending the students to something terrible,” board member Jeff Bergosh (pictured left) said. “You are putting them into a situation where they have everything. They students will adapt. They will overcome.”
“We are not turning your kids loose and saying ’sink or swim’,” Jeff Bergosh, board member, said “If you can look to Him,” he said of God, “and expect the best, you can get it.”
“This was not an easy decision,” board Chairman Patty Hightower said. Her church, Trinity Presbyterian of Pensacola, has volunteered at Carver/Century for 23 years. Prior to the meeting, many Century residents saw Hightower as the swing vote that could save the town’s only school.
She announced that she would support Thomas’ recommendation to close the school because of the great educational opportunities provided at Bratt and Ernest Ward.
Last Minute Pleas
Prior to the board’s 3-2 vote to close Carver/Century K-8 School, a few people addressed the board in support of the school.
“I am a Century Blackcat,” Century native Jewel Canada-Wynn, now a member of the Pensacola City Council and an administrator at Escambia High School, said. “Without a school, that community will suffer.”
Annie Savage, grandmother of a Carver/Century student, has attended every school board meeting concerning the closure of the school. Tuesday night, she told the five member school board that they were placing the Rock of Gibraltar on the outskirts of Century, “putting us out of action in our town”.
“You say no child is left behind,” Savage said. “Do you not mean no child except the children in Century left behind?”
“You are killing our town. We have a prison and we have inmates running around, but no students,” Century is not going to grow anymore when you take away our school…Don’t kill our community; don’t kill our town.”
Carver/Century employee Lillian Robertson told the school board they had put Carver/Century last, providing fewer resources for the school, staff and students.
“You have done nothing but undermine us,” Robertson said. “You are going to lose a lot of money when you close us.” She said 175 Carver/Century students would cross the line and attend school in Alabama. “You have lost Century.”
Leroy Boyd, leader of Movement for Change, said his group “certainly won’t be quiet while you put a padlock on Century”. The Century Town Council voted Monday night to fund Movement for Change lawyer Jeffery Toney in seeking a possible injunction against the Escambia County School Board to keep the school open. Read more here.
Click here for a photo gallery from Tuesday night’s school board meeting.
Pictured top: Century council member Gary Riley, Mayor Freddie McCall, Century businessman Jack Moran, Carver/Century Principal Jeff Garthwaite and Century businesswoman Julie Booth-Moran listed to the Escambia County School Board Tuesday night. Pictured bottom: Century resident Annie Savage addresses the Escambia County School Board. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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42 Responses to “School Board Votes To Close Carver/Century”
What can we do to keep Alabama students from entering Escambia County Florida Schools? Atmore has experience the shifting of students to private and Florida schools. Can this help reduce the crisis we are experiencing?
Can we truely love God and demonstrate our love for him this way?
Today I visited an old friend in Century and was gravely disappointed after hearing the news that the last school is Century was closing. Currently I am employed with a major manufacturing company in Alabama. A major part of my duties is recruiting new employees; one of the main concerns of young parents is the school system. I have several questions for the school board:
1. How do you ever except to attract industry if there is not an adequate school
system for the employees’ children?
2. Do you realize the tax dollars which a school system would benefit as a result
of industry tax dollars?
3. Are your aware of the infrastructure of Hwy 29 versus that of Hwy 4?
4. If there was a new industry interested in locating in North Escambia, Florida;
which infrastructure would they prefer a two lane or a four lane for shipping
and receiving goods.
5. Is there any concern regarding busing a 5 year old at 6:30 a.m. for school?
I have lived both in Florida and Alabama, the education which in received in Century prepared me for the future. If I had a choice between Alabama and Florida I would chose Florida’s education every time.
If this closure were in my community we would have already been on the road to trying to form a charter school or private school. Communities make schools, schools do not make communities. Stop the blame game and legal injunctions.
Work together to find a solution. I am in a group of moms that help each other. One might pick up a sick child from school and this weekend I babysit for her for a couple hours. We all need help, but it is our responsibility to find it. It is not the government or school districts responsibility. They are offering your children the best educational opportunity possible and all I have read are complaints. Afterall, don’t you want your children to have a better life than you have had? Education is the key!
Some of you are saying that it’s immature of others to say that it will be a hardship for some parents to pick up their child if they become sick if they are in school way out in the middle of nowhere. Well, immature it may seem to you, but it is a fact that when you don’t have a vehicle or gas money for someone else’s vehicle, you most likely aren’t going anywhere far and certainly not all the way out there.
This will offer plenty of opportunities that most of the Century kids will NOT be able to use. They won’t be able to be in the band or after school clubs because it’s too far and too expensive when they are so far below the poverty level and in many cases, don’t even own a vehicle to drive them back and forth.
I understand that the school board wants to save money. We all do, but if they had truly tried everything possible to make this school succeed and to bring back the kids whose parents had moved them, they would have given the school the same funding and help that they gave others. This didn’t happen. They caused the sorry state that the school was in just a few short years ago when parents first started sending their kids to other schools. That’s what happened to these kids, NOT white flight. It was wanting to give their kids a better education and they knew it wasn’t going to happen at Century. Now that they have a decent principal there who can turn it around (and yes, I am a former student of his), they pull the rug out from under him.
The school board will no longer need any Century votes, obviously, because they won’t be getting anymore.
Btw, someone said that nobody stood up to fight when they closed Century High School, but that isn’t true. We ALL were very vocal about it, but we were told that the building was no longer safe for students and that we would have to have a new building and that it was the same situation at Ernest Ward, so they were going to save money by combining the two schools into Northview (which we vehemently opposed, with good reason as it has turned out) whether we liked it or not. We were never given the choice of keeping it since they told us the building would have to be condemned. That’s very interesting since they later used it for Carver Middle and even now it is in use. But, oh, we can’t have high school kids in it, just middle schoolers and church goers.
Delane, yes we all make mistakes on here and wish there was an edit button but even you have to admit that alisa j, well that was just plain ol’ sad!!
Tell me what makes this any differant than when they closed century high.Century is the same now as then.Looks like to me kids get to Northview with no problem.What about kids getting sick there,that don’t have transportation.It’s all what you make of it.We should of had all this support mybe we would have a high school.That’s when the ball started rolling down hill for Century.
Excuse me “harsh judge” but there is their not thier, if you are going to correct someones’s spelling you need to learn where the check spell on your own computer!
I’ve been keeping up with this, even though this isn’t my school district, or even county for that matter. Even if it were, we’re a homeschooling family and it just doesn’t apply to us. Yes, I realize school closures would apply if something unforeseeable happened and we had to enroll them in public school. I don’t think that the closure of the school is fair. I believe it will have a negative impact on the town. I wouldn’t want my kindergartner getting on the bus before sunrise. I agree with many of the negative points brought up thus far.
That said, those who ardently were in support of keeping Carver/Century open put up a good fight. But what’s done is done. It’s really time to move on and make the transition easier on the children. Many times when parents have a bad attitude toward something, it trickles down to the children. That’s something that no one needs. If you just can’t move passed the closure then, as “!” said you have two other options: move, or opt for private or homeschool. For a lot of people, neither of these are feasible, so that brings us back to the first option of going to Bratt/EWMS.
It just seems like the right thing to do at this point is to move on with a good attitude.
Agreed with a.nicole: what “A harsh judge” said bordered on breaking comment rule #1 (be nice). (S)He chose is screen name well.
Renea,
I think you really need to take a look at your comment. Dont feed anyone that junk about having to make your kids ride the bus earlier….get over it! Lifes not fair and if they dont learn now they wont ever learn. And I completely agree with the Flomanton parent, why should Alabama residents pay for Florida residents coming in to their state just like why should Florida residents pay for Alabama Residents? They shouldnt. And it is a race thing…it always has been. And honestly its getting old and it needs to stop. So before you go around trying to point fingers get your facts straight. And about kids being sick……if they are sick before they leave then dont send them and if they get sick while at school you need to make arrangements now in case of those situations. And parents need to better their lifes for thier children. So maybe its not about the kids anymore its about the parents. Carver is closing and thats the end so lets quit fighting about it and try to improve our communities but being positive.
At 6:20 a.m. I put my 1st grader on the bus to go to school. Please give me a break about getting on the bus an hour early and riding for an hour to go to Bratt or EWMS from Century. My older child used to not get on until 7:10 because school times were 8:00 a.m. several years ago. When the start time changed “WE ADJUSTED”. Molino children have adjusted to being on the bus an hour or more to attend EWMS. I work in Pensacola and have had a sick child at school 30 miles away. LIfe is about change and if you do not adapt to change you will be left behind. That is what I teach my children. I don’t make the rules, I follow them!!!!
To “A harsh judge”…. that was just plain MEAN. I see no benefit in humiliating someone and that is all that was, no matter what your disclaimer at the bottom said. I agree that the grammar needs improvement, but it is not your place, nor mine to go line for line and correct her. I will say if you are going to judge, maybe you should edit your own writing with a little more care…..
It is their not thier
I also see some unnecessary commas and some missing commas
is should be are
etc.etc.etc.etc
My point to this is that everyone makes mistakes, some more then others, but no one put you in the almighty position to correct them. I hope that if this is a child, then your negative comments do not discourage her from stepping forward to offer her opinion in the future. Stick to opinions on the story, not trying to make someone feel “less then”.
And for the record… I am sure that I have made several grammatical and spelling errors, so there is no reason for anyone to proof-read my opinion.
Congrats to the town of Century, your failure is complete. The town is a shell of its former self and like Escambia County, it will only get worse. The lack of serious leaders and the lack of taking responsability for your own actions has lead the town and County down a path for which it might not ever return from. It saddens me to come back home and see what the area has become, no jobs, no schools, and no pride.
To alisa j
I realize you are only a child, and I am sorry to say this, but somewhere down the line, you should be told:
You have the intelligence to write a sensible letter but you really should at least not insult your readers by being unable to communicate better. I counted over fifteen grammatical and spelling errors, not including the failure to capitalize the first letter of the first word in a sentence.
Word Should be
stupied stupid
colse close
open opened
missed place misplaced
there thier
no No
AnD and
caver Carver
the their
blackcats Blackcat
i I
best time my grades best time. My grades
great students great, students
togather together,
way away
use us
If your ability to form sentences and your grammar and punctuation is any indication of the education the Blackcats at Carver-Century are getting then it is time the school is closed and the students go where they will be taught and hopefully in an atmosphere where the kids want to learn..
I give you an A in effort and guts, but an F in grammar and spelling and this isn’t even FCAT.
I don’t intend to be mean no matter what it reads like – but maybe you should take some remedial writing, grammar and English courses.
Take heart, everyone, Bratt and EWMS will alleviate all these problems.
EWMS grad, I totally agree and Renea, I am a Century resident and am for the closing. Also, some of the people posting against closure should take a better look at your remarks. The spelling and wording make for a great argument for closing the school.
Alabama is putting a stop to that too. If you’ve been keeping up with the latest, you’ll know that out of state students may finish up at the school (Atmore student attending EWMS for example) if they were already enrolled this year, say, they may continue and attend through the highest grade. But they are not eligible to attend the next level of schooling in this county unless they live here. That is because BOTH states were having non-resident students attending their schools and this is a problem. It is a phasing out and closure to this practice.
what about all the kids that are in rolled at Northview that live in ALABAMA.
I don’t know what all the fuss is about? All that is going to happen is that the parents will find a way to send the kids over to Flomaton instead of sending them to EWMS or Bratt. That way they can overburden our school, overcrowd our classrooms, overwork our teachers and staff, take away our children’s opportunities and leach off our tax dollars. EWMS and Bratt may have open arms, but we do not!!! No I am not being racist, this has nothing to do with race, it has to do with what is right. I pay taxes and support my schools for ALABAMA residents, not from any other state that is not paying to support the system. If you send your children to Flomaton from Century, you are stealing from others! If you wish to pay to help increase salaries, classrooms, materials and etc…, that would be fine, but don’t come here for a free ride from Alabama taxpayers. This is one reason I am glad our school board voted to stop allowing the free flow of students from state to state. I didn’t agree with Atmore students going to Florida schools and I don’t agree with Florida students going to Alabama schools. If parents do not like the schools where they live, they should either work to change them or move. You can’t have your cake and eat it too!!!
Wow that is just amazing to me that the people of Century take more pride in their prison than they do in their students… Your proud to have prisoners running around, well that is just SAD. But why dont you look at it this way, your community isnt dead, you still have the Piggly Wiggly. Just because your loosing a school doesnt mean the community is gone because the last time I checked a community consisted of the people and their actions not what is there.
You know, I just don’t buy the argument that parents are at a disadvantage if their child gets sick or injured they can’t get to them because they don’t own a car or because it’s too far to walk. Well duh, 17 to 20 miles is too far to walk to get a sick or injured child…think about it…that makes no sense to even consider such an option. However, I feel fairly confident that each parent/guardian probably knows someone who does have a vehicle and would help them in such a situation. I grew up less than 3 miles from EW and we only had one vehicle which my dad drove to his job in Mobile everyday. If my mom needed to get to school for any reason, she called someone…even at less than 3 miles she didn’t walk a sick/hurt child home. That argument and the long school bus ride are two of the most ridiculous arguments people are trying to make just so they can have their school. I can assure you there are kids in Molino that attend EW that have just as long if not longer bus ride and I’ve not heard them bellyaching about it.
The Century community needs to wake up and face the fact that their school will be no more after May 28th. Everyone is screaming “this is about the kids”, but very few seem to realize that their children will have many more opportunities to succeed at the other schools. If it’s so much about the kids, then be positive about the change. For crying out loud, everything changes at some point. Nothing stays the same forever, except the love of God. Teach His love to your children rather than the poor attitude of having to switch to a new school. Kids are very resilient…they will do fine if their parents/guardians will be positive.
Stop trying to come up with every excuse in the book to gain pity because your school is closing. Instead of the “poor, pitiful me” attitude, get over it, get yourselves together and encourage your children to embrace this change. If you, as the parent/guardian will be positive about it, you just might be surprised at how well your child will adjust.
Stop trying to fight something that is done.
is it just me or does it seem that all the comments that are for the closing of carver coming from people that live in the bratt area and those that are against it from carver. Maybe if the shoes were on a different foot the comments would be different.
It has nothing at all to do with race, these parents are concerned for their kids, I guess no one has thought about them. They are the ones that will have to get up an extra hour earlier and ride the bus for hour and to two hours a day. An yea, I would say that Century is kinda on the poverty level, so what happens to these kids when they get sick at school and the parents have no way to come and get them. That means the kids will have to stay at school sick, because the parents will have no way to get them. And to go ahead and answer the question, its a lot easier to get a ride 5min somewhere, then for someone to take you an hour round trip.
So for everyone throwing the race card out there, this isnt about race at all, it about our children. I have had a child at EWMS, she spend one year there and it was her worst year in school. My child was a shy,white girl that got pick on everyday and the teachers done nothing about it, I was told that they would take care of it and still she came home every day crying. So for the sake of all the kids coming from Carver Good luck I hope the teaching staff has gotten better in the last 4years.
I grew up in a neighborhood of poor & middle class working families, two blocks from HUD housing. My mom didn’t drive, so it didn’t matter that my dad drove our only car to work an hour away. My mom WALKED to the school for teacher conferences, PTA meetings and school events, despite weather or safety issues because she was determined to be involved. When I got injured in elementary school and had to be rushed to the doctor, mom had to arrange for a neighbor to help. Mom made our clothes and peanut butter sandwiches because we couldn’t afford school lunches. There were plenty of kids with one parent/ grandparent only homes. I grew up in it, survived it and feel I can speak to it. Century is not the only area in our community with economic woes, job losses , broken homes, and transportation issues. Listening to the news Century is not going to be the only neighborhood in our county to have a school shut down, more closures are coming. Familes learn how to adjust to changes they go through….
Bratt Resident…
It is your assumption that you don’t know whom I know and I welcome your critical comments because you’re entitled to you opinion; however, one doesn’t have to assume that there’ll be disgruntled staff or students departing from Century because all a person has to do is read their comments, which have been posted on this Website during the past year. If someone has done that, then the fact of disenchantment becomes quite oblivious to the casual reader.
Thank you to Bratt resident!! I teach at Carver/Century and we (the teachers) will be fine where ever we go. We are not worried about ourselves. We are worried about the CHILDREN!! Not only the children but we also will have to ajust to a new school. What people don’t know about Carver/Century is that we are not just a school but we are a FAMILY!!!!
This is to all the students, teachers, parents, grandparents, etc. All involved in this should purchase the book “WHO MOVED MY CHEESE”. They even make a kids version and a movie.
I do understand the poverty level and the problems it will cause for the extracurricular activities.
Read the book.
Watch the movie.
Get involved in a positive way. Help the kids cope, they are more adaptive than you think.
And kids, read the book.
My kids have been to several different schools, one in a particularly rough section of another town. We have tried to teach them they are expected to do their best and act right regardless of where they go to school, who they go to school with or what is happening around them. There are bad people and good people in this world – that’s a fact. But if you go into a situation with a positive outlook, doing your best, good things will probably happen. As we prepare for a transition, if we tell our children, ‘this is going to be awful’ that’s what they’re going to expect and see in a new situation. I have found that no matter where we are, the schools are only as interested as we the parents (or guardians) and our children are in the education of our children. I was taught as a young person my main goal while a student was to be the best student I could be. Period. I have tried to pass that on to my children. THAT is more the bottom line in ANY child’s education ( black , white or pink polka dotted) than what building they are in, what town they are in, who they are taught by or attend school with.
Way to go Nikki, well said and Old Sailor and O!!! I agree with you 100%
To Bratt Resident —
I think people at bratt and ewms realize that the carver kids, for the most part, are in poverty. but why should we keep them there in that proverty? instead of poor, poor me, why can’t this be an opporunity? get the kids out of poverty and into A schools where they have an opportunity make themselves better instead of drowining in their sorrows at carver.
Old Sailor:
Obviously, you do not know the teaching staff at Carver/Century. These highly qualified educational professionals will move on to support any and all students they teach, no matter where they teach.
Your assumption that the teachers will be “disgruntled” harms not only these teachers, but their future students as well. Do not give the students the idea that their teachers may be coming in with something against them or their school. It’s simply untrue.
To All:
I warn any and all people making comments on this board or any other to be careful what you say because students are reading this board, students both from Carver and Earnest Ward. Do not make an ignorant comment that can hurt others on a higher level than you would intend.
It’s also clear that many people who voice opinions here do not understand the culture of Century or the very poor socioeconomic status that it’s residents are currently in. I’m not speaking of race here. I’m saying that a high percentage of parents of Carver/Century students do not even have a vehicle. They walk their children to school, walk to extracurricular events, and walk home.
Unless you’re willing to take a child with no ride the 40 mile round trip home from all of these extracurricular activities that will be “more available” for them at Bratt and Earnest Ward, then do not put these parents who are in poverty down for doing everything they can to keep the school from closing. With the nation’s current economic situation and unemployment rate, it would only be ignorant to do so.
I’m not saying that I’m against Bratt or Earnest Ward and I’m not saying that Carver/Century students could not do well in those schools. I’m saying that the situation is more complicated than what many of us who are above the poverty line could ever understand.
It is my observation that school closings are very much like navy ship decommissionings. As sailors, we had to remind ourselves every time the navy made a decision to remove a ship from active service, that it was us, the sailors (officers and crew), who gave a ship its life and character. Without sailors, a ship is nothing more than an empty, dark, cold, steel hull.
When the order to decommission is given, the crew never liked it, but they still followed the directive because there was much to be accomplished before “the lights were turned out.”
One of most agonizing events was reassigning the ship’s crew to other ships or shore stations based upon the “needs of the navy.” Some received their duty station choice, yet others were assigned to places they did not want and they carried with them huge chips on their shoulders. I felt badly for the receiving ships of these disgruntled sailors because they were like a festering sore that would infect and poison the atmospheres at their new commands.
Just like a navy ship decommissioning there is the pending closure of Carver-Century. The staff will be reassigned around the district according to each member’s qualifications and skills and the students will be directed to either Bratt or Ernest Ward based upon grade level.
It is my concern that there will be many former “disgruntled” teachers and students from Carver-Century that will be either re-assigned or directed to these two outstanding schools. I want to challenge all involved in this process not to let personal feelings fester into a cancer, which will destroy the great teams assembled at Bratt and Ernest Ward. These two schools welcome each and every new student and staff member, but the newly assigned have an obligation to themselves to assimilate into the receiving school’s organization. After all, the closure of Carver-Century is for the betterment of every student’s education.
Parents really need to grow up and quit complaining. You wonder why are children are the way they are its because are parents are so immature. Just because they are closing Carver doesnt mean the world will end. I completely understand that the communitiy wont be the same but you could send your kids to EWMS which is a great school and bring the two communities together. All this fighting is getting a little ridiculous. And Im sick and tired of hearing about race. It does not matter if you are black, white, or purple we are equal. We try and teach our kids that and make this world better but yet we still have some that think they do no wrong and that their color should rule. Get over yourself. Thats enough talk about it. Carver is closing and obviously for good reasons. Quit dewelling on the past and look to the future. Proud to be an EWMS alumi!
this is very stupied to colse a school down that you just open in 03.why would you want these kids to go to a school were they feel like they are missed place because the color of there skin.no child should have to be sent off to another school cause the board thinks it will save $$$$$$.if you send these kids to another school half of the kids will cross the state line AnD go to FHS.then you will see just how much money you will lose.some kids have been going to caver century all the life.you are taking a very big part of them away.i was a blackcats student last year and i had the best time my grades were great students worked togather just great .please do not take the heart of the south way from use kids this school is our world.WE ROCK BLACKCATS UNTILL THE END
“Less than a dozen Century residents attended Tuesday night’s school board meeting”……that’s enough said!
Waahoo!!! Good decision schoolboard… Now that it has been finalized let’s focus on helping the students in school and look at the positive possibilities.
This post is not meant in a negative way. Nonetheless, parents in the Carver district have 3 options:
1. Send their children to Bratt/EWMS
2. Move to another district or state OR
3. Pull their kids from public school & homeschool them.
These are their 3 rights. So can we please just make the decision that we feel is best for our own children, stop complaining & move on?? The tackiness of this situation just needs to end.
Let’s move on–there’s a bright future to look forward to!! And that bright future is centered around our children. Help them to believe their future will be nothing less than exciting & filled with accomplishments–regardless of where they are educated!
As for the town…
I have made this statement on this board before & I will make it again: Schools do NOT make communities. Communities make schools! It’s all about the people in the community supporting the school, not the school supporting the community.
I would like to say that the kids will be welcomed at either school. We need to give the kids a better out look than the back and forth chatter. Kids will be kids they will get a long with each other because they will have something in common with each other, the Hate for the FCAT. LOL Best of luck to all of the kids next year.
Tracy your opinion, but where are the facts?
Its just wrong to close that school. GOD BLESS YOU STUDENTS!!!!
This is the biggest mistake that the District can do. You are harming the Town of Century. The Districts responsiblity is to the children, not themselves. All they think about is $$$$, not the best for the children. BIGGEST MISTAKE THAT WE COULD DO!!!!
I think this will prove to be a good decision overall for Century students and the county as a whole. However, I think it will be difficult for some people to move on.
I agree with Jay. It’s time to move forward and do what is best for the kids.
It’s done. Now let’s move forward and make the adjustments necessary to facilitate a smooth transition of Carver-Century’s former students into their new schools.