Sherman R. Frederick
Marinscope
What’s going on at the Novato Unified School District? They first announced that they must — must! — close an elementary school. They put everyone through the pain of picking one to kill off, and then when the selection is finished they reverse course and now say no closure will happen.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out. The district is, indeed, in financial straits and closing a school is one way out. But the additional problem — perhaps the bigger — is that the district lost a boatload of students during the COVID pandemic to private schools.
Mary Jane Burke has now stepped in to, as she said, “stabilize” the situation. Whoa. Isn’t that another way of saying the trustees and the superintendent are failing?
Anyone who has been watching this situation, as I have, knows that there is big angst with a lot of parents with the NUSD. Communication is poor, parents say. Private schools have been back up and running fairly normally since October. Yet, NUSD isn’t now back to normal and whenever the topic comes up about normalcy in fall, the answers appear uncertain.
This bears a close watch, people.
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