Keeping PPS Communities Together

Right now my kids can bike quickly to a great school, and that could all change. Let's keep the boundaries where they are.

We bought our house because of the tiny communities of BC and Grant high school. Please keep this community together- so much has been done and so much can be done with strong community support.

Let's keep this positive conversation going and keep our kids together!

Please consider keeping our community whole.

Scenario 1 addresses BCS's current 3 campus problem with a 3 campus solution (Hollyrood, Laurelhurst, BC MS). Seeing RCP re-open as a k-5 (housing former BCS students) feeding BC MS and Grant HS keeps these students together. Please keep cohorts together!

Our family would like to keep Beverly Cleary as a community. We recognize that the middle school model would be best for students and we recommend that Rose City Elementary become a K-5 for Beverly Cleary. Our community already experienced terrible disruption when Rose City was closed, we want to see our school community stay together and not go through that neighborhood divisiveness again.

Lets keep ALL of BCS together!

Listening to other communities wanting to stick together, made me wonder why ours wasn't. This is a step in the right direction. It gives the feel of community that was missing from our school since the 2 scenarios came out. It's important to put ourselves in each other's shoes and look at best for all, not just some.

This sense of shared responsibility and community is precisely the sentiment that seems to have been obscured by all the scuffling. Let's get and stay together to find a solution.

Please keep our community together.

It is clear that there is overwhelming support for the K8 model with PPS parents and students. Communities and neighborhoods don't want to be broken apart. Equity among schools is critical, all K8 schools should have rich and full programs. PPS needs to focus on supporting and enhancing these directives New proposed boundaries and middle schools go against all of what is working and what is best for the kids. Solve for school size by adding capacity at the existing schools with portable class rooms in the short term then design new facilities that provide flexibility for the future. The populations of students will always be changing, what we solve for today will not be the population in 5, 10 25 years. Commit to K8, Commit to rich and equitable programming, preserve geographic neighborhoods, devise flexible campuses that adapt to capacity changes.

Thank you for this....this entire situation is completely heartbreaking...

Let's do the next right thing and keep our kids and community together!

Thanks!

Hollywood is our neighborhood. We walk to BC, and we have a safe route to school. Please consider this for our children!

Our school and community are successful we deserve an option that keeps us together

One team! One goal!

Please keep All the BCS community together, draw from the historical boundaries used previously by PPS during times of higher capacity. Expect more growth and right size buildings/classrooms for long term thinking. Need a long term vision and decisions to build/maintain strong community, and fundraising.

My kids and I value our friends and community. Please don't shift us out for a short-term fix.

Both scenarios fracture our strong community, let's show PPS that united we stand!