School worries

I went to the task force meeting last night and they decided unanimously to recommend to the school board the closure of Valley Oak for fall 2007. They will be meeting with the school board on Monday night to go through their recommendations. While it's up to the school board to decide, clearly Valley Oak at this point is going to have few resources and little backing. I also learned that the teacher we have grave concerns about is quite likely to be Owen's teacher for this fall.

Given those two facts, plus the fact that almost all of his friends from kindergarten live in the new neighborhood and thus are going to be at the new school this fall, we are seriously considering trying to get an interdistrict transfer this summer so that he could start elsewhere in the fall. Part of the problem is that if the board does decide to close it, we don't know with absolute certainty what school he would be sent to in 2007. However, the school that is the "overflow school" this coming year is Birch Lane, and that is the second closest school after Valley Oak, so it is not unlikely that he would be sent there in 2007 anyway. So, we may try for that.