As you stroll around Del Obispo Elementary School, there are beautifully designed ceramic tiles, created by families, students and teachers who have graced the halls of the school. Built in 1974, Del Obispo Elementary was built as a community school but it has evolved into so much more. It has become a family, which these tiles are a testament to. Original teachers who have long since retired continue to substitute teach there; alumni have returned to the neighboring communities so that their children can partake in the elementary school experience that they've remembered with fondness. Del Obispo Elementary School is a generational school.
For the 2015-2016 school year, Del Obispo Elementary School has a current enrollment of 375 which continues to grow with each passing day. This school, so rich in history, talent and potential is being considered as a permanent school site for Community Roots Academy charter school, which currently shares a campus with Wood Canyon Elementary School located in Aliso Viejo. If chosen, Del Obispo Elementary would be closed and Community Roots Academy would move in.
What’s wrong with that, you might ask. We will tell you. Currently, Del Obispo has the very unique experience of sharing a campus with Marco Forster Middle School. Students who attend Del Obispo transition across a walkway to their middle school and the middle school students cross that same walkway on their way to their community service opportunities that having an elementary school so close provides. Many students who attend Del Obispo Elementary School walk to school, some do so out of convenience but there are many who do so out of necessity. Currently, traffic officers patrol the neighboring areas dolling out tickets to parents who, lacking a spot to park, park along red curbs or permit neighborhoods to walk their students to school across busy Camino Del Avion. By closing Del Obispo and replacing it with Community Roots Academy, that unique experience alluded to above will be gone without the ability to replicate it elsewhere. Traffic, which is already bad, will be even worse because the number of families who will be converging onto Del Obispo will nearly triple its current state. Increased traffic also increases the risk of accidents. Parents who have no choice but to walk will be placed in the difficult situation of securing transportation for their children. Additionally, those parents will be even more disadvantaged with regard to being involved participants in their student’s education.
Additionally, Marco Forster, not a party to this whole situation, will be left to deal with the negative effects. Increased traffic volume, loss of their community service and leadership programs for their students as well as having to share their facilities with a school to which there will be no options for reciprocity.
Closing Del Obispo Elementary School is an AWFUL idea, and it is one that we do not wish to suffer. Protect your neighborhood generational elementary school. Protect your right to be involved in your students’ lives without additional hassles being placed on you. Protect your community’s right to not be burdened with more chaos, traffic and dangerous situations. Protect your child’s right to walk to school.
Sign our petition to save our school and say no CUSD!
Also, send your comments and questions to the Board of Trustees at [email protected]. Tell the Board why Del Obispo should remain open. Thank you!
Updates
August 31, 2015
The petition has now surpassed one hundred signatures. I appreciate everyone who has taken a moment to support the preservation of our school.
Reached 500 supporters
August 30, 2015
August 29, 2015
We are approaching the five hundred signature milestone. Please distribute this petition to your personal networks to help us reach this threshold before the upcoming board review.
Reached 100 supporters
August 29, 2015
August 26, 2015
The number of signatures is nearing one hundred. Please circulate this petition within your personal networks to help us reach this milestone before the next district review.
370 Comments
Keep the Del O Dragons! I had the pleasure of teaching at Del Obispo and know first hand how committed staff and families are when it comes to educating students attending there. A small campus/enrollment is a PLUS in my opinion, not a reason to close the campus!
I attended Del Obispo School on the first day that it open. Then my 3 kids did too. I ask that to please keep it open. I believe that you will be taking something that it's part of the community. and of its history. Keep Del Obispo Open and its Dragon standing !!!!!
Traffic in our local neighborhood is already bad dealing with the three schools in that area. Adding more incoming and requiring the kids who live in surrounding areas to travel out to another school will only futher the problem and congestion.
Del Obispo Elementary School is a great and safe place to send our kids. I would like you to see how in the mornings the many families that go walking to school...we are all like a family !!! .Please don't close our school, Don't separate our Del Obispo School family !!
I grew up in Dana Point, attended Del Obispo from k-5 (as well as my older brother). I went on to college, obtained my degree and my teaching credentials, and had the pleasure of returning to this school as a substitute teacher. It would be heartbreaking to see it change.
I spent my entire elementary school life at Del Obispo and then transitioned to Marco for middle school like so many others. I hate the thought of the school being closed. :(
This has been a great school for my nieces and the rest of their community. A change of schools will uproot the an important foundation For these children.
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As you stroll around Del Obispo Elementary School, there are beautifully designed ceramic tiles, created by families, students and teachers who have graced the halls of the school. Built in 1974, Del Obispo Elementary was built as a community school but it has evolved into so much more. It has become a family, which these tiles are a testament to. Original teachers who have long since retired continue to substitute teach there; alumni have returned to the neighboring communities so that their children can partake in the elementary school experience that they've remembered with fondness. Del Obispo Elementary School is a generational school.
For the 2015-2016 school year, Del Obispo Elementary School has a current enrollment of 375 which continues to grow with each passing day. This school, so rich in history, talent and potential is being considered as a permanent school site for Community Roots Academy charter school, which currently shares a campus with Wood Canyon Elementary School located in Aliso Viejo. If chosen, Del Obispo Elementary would be closed and Community Roots Academy would move in.
What’s wrong with that, you might ask. We will tell you. Currently, Del Obispo has the very unique experience of sharing a campus with Marco Forster Middle School. Students who attend Del Obispo transition across a walkway to their middle school and the middle school students cross that same walkway on their way to their community service opportunities that having an elementary school so close provides. Many students who attend Del Obispo Elementary School walk to school, some do so out of convenience but there are many who do so out of necessity. Currently, traffic officers patrol the neighboring areas dolling out tickets to parents who, lacking a spot to park, park along red curbs or permit neighborhoods to walk their students to school across busy Camino Del Avion. By closing Del Obispo and replacing it with Community Roots Academy, that unique experience alluded to above will be gone without the ability to replicate it elsewhere. Traffic, which is already bad, will be even worse because the number of families who will be converging onto Del Obispo will nearly triple its current state. Increased traffic also increases the risk of accidents. Parents who have no choice but to walk will be placed in the difficult situation of securing transportation for their children. Additionally, those parents will be even more disadvantaged with regard to being involved participants in their student’s education.
Additionally, Marco Forster, not a party to this whole situation, will be left to deal with the negative effects. Increased traffic volume, loss of their community service and leadership programs for their students as well as having to share their facilities with a school to which there will be no options for reciprocity.
Closing Del Obispo Elementary School is an AWFUL idea, and it is one that we do not wish to suffer. Protect your neighborhood generational elementary school. Protect your right to be involved in your students’ lives without additional hassles being placed on you. Protect your community’s right to not be burdened with more chaos, traffic and dangerous situations. Protect your child’s right to walk to school.
Sign our petition to save our school and say no CUSD!
Also, send your comments and questions to the Board of Trustees at [email protected]. Tell the Board why Del Obispo should remain open. Thank you!
Updates
August 31, 2015
The petition has now surpassed one hundred signatures. I appreciate everyone who has taken a moment to support the preservation of our school.
Reached 500 supporters
August 30, 2015
August 29, 2015
We are approaching the five hundred signature milestone. Please distribute this petition to your personal networks to help us reach this threshold before the upcoming board review.
Reached 100 supporters
August 29, 2015
August 26, 2015
The number of signatures is nearing one hundred. Please circulate this petition within your personal networks to help us reach this milestone before the next district review.
370 Comments
I would prefer you keep del Orbison school as I have 2 children that go there and we live across the street. We have a nanny that doesn't drive l, so attending another school outside our neighborhood would not be an option.
Keep the Del O Dragons! I had the pleasure of teaching at Del Obispo and know first hand how committed staff and families are when it comes to educating students attending there. A small campus/enrollment is a PLUS in my opinion, not a reason to close the campus!
I attended Del Obispo School on the first day that it open. Then my 3 kids did too. I ask that to please keep it open. I believe that you will be taking something that it's part of the community. and of its history. Keep Del Obispo Open and its Dragon standing !!!!!
Traffic in our local neighborhood is already bad dealing with the three schools in that area. Adding more incoming and requiring the kids who live in surrounding areas to travel out to another school will only futher the problem and congestion.
Del Obispo Elementary School is a great and safe place to send our kids. I would like you to see how in the mornings the many families that go walking to school...we are all like a family !!! .Please don't close our school, Don't separate our Del Obispo School family !!
I grew up in Dana Point, attended Del Obispo from k-5 (as well as my older brother). I went on to college, obtained my degree and my teaching credentials, and had the pleasure of returning to this school as a substitute teacher. It would be heartbreaking to see it change.
I spent my entire elementary school life at Del Obispo and then transitioned to Marco for middle school like so many others. I hate the thought of the school being closed. :(
This has been a great school for my nieces and the rest of their community. A change of schools will uproot the an important foundation For these children.
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I would prefer you keep del Orbison school as I have 2 children that go there and we live across the street. We have a nanny that doesn't drive l, so attending another school outside our neighborhood would not be an option.