Schools, schools, schools

The Task Force did a workshop with the school board last night that I attended and presented their recommendation for closing our school. The Board seemed to take it very positively, which sort of surprised me. About a half dozen people stood up and gave reasons why Valley Oak should not be closed, but overall there was not too much public comment. The Board asked the Task Force to do more outreach to the VO community, particularly the non-English-speaking parents, and to study a few more angles of the issue such as transportation. But overall it appears that this may well happen. Even the board member whose kids are at VO, while she was very upset about it and didn't want to rule out the possibility of keeping all the schools open, said "I can kind of see the writing on the wall."

It looks like there may be just one more year for Valley Oak.