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Tutoring Instead of Tranfers
By Steve Alexander Reporter
Published: Mon, March 17, 2008 - 9:38 pm
Last Updated: Mon, March 17, 2008 - 9:48 pm
Last Updated: Mon, March 17, 2008 - 9:48 pm
Steve Alexander
Saraland is forming its own school system next school year, and taking an elementary and middle school from Mobile County.
Next school year, students who live in Satsuma and other parts of Mobile County will no longer be able to go to Adams Middle School.
Mobile school administrators have proposed moving those students to Shaw High school so they can keep teachers and children together in a fully functioning middle school program.
But many people who attended a meeting Monday night to hear more about the proposal weren't happy.
Some suggested that since Saraland students will be leaving nearby Lee Primary and Intermediate Schools, put students in those Mobile County schools instead of in Shaw.
Daniel Stolee, a parent who lives in Satsuma, said, "Those students will be gone. We're going to reduce staff at Lee. We could easily with two gymnasiums both at the primary and the intermediate turn the intermediate into a temporary secondary or middle school."
Other parents say Shaw is too far from where they live in case there's an emergency.
Another parent who lives in Satsuma, Danya Ardis, says, "My daughter has asthma. If she has is an asthmatic attack, that's forty five minutes to get to her."
Alabama state law says students who live in Saraland will go to Saraland schools.
At least one parent was unhappy about that.
Kim Feurtado said, "Most of them (students) are taking ninth grade classes already. Adams might not even offer that."
But Mobile County School Board Member Ken Megginson said nothing is final yet.
He says the meeting may prompt the Superintendent Roy Nichols to take another look at things.
Megginson said, "I think after tonight, that he has some new input. The folks that are here have new input, new information, new concerns, and that they will go back and re-evaluate the plan."
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For those of you who may not know. The School Board meeting is Tuesday, March 25 @ 6:00 in the Lee Intermediate gym. Let’s all attend and show them how outraged this community is with this decision.