Parents Dismayed as Methacton District Weighs Shutting Down 2 Elementary Schools
By Brad Segall
EAGLEVILLE, Pa. (CBS) -- Some parents in the Methacton School District, in Montgomery County, are mobilizing after the school board voted to consider a plan that would shut down two of the district's six elementary schools.
School board members insist no decisions have been made and no schools are being closed right now, but parents at Arrowhead and Audubon elementary schools aren't buying it. They are being told that enrollment studies show fewer students over the next decade, but Arrowhead parent Ashley Power says that flies in the face of a previous study that led to the construction of a new school.
"And now, all of sudden, there are new reports suggesting that we don't have the enrollment to uphold this," she tells KYW Newsradio, "and we're hurt and outraged and frustrated."
The parents met with the superintendent today, hoping to get some answers on how the possible closings would affect their children, their bus rides to other schools, and the community as a whole.
But, Power says, the answers were few and far between. There will be a public hearing on the proposal February 23rd.
