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LETTER: Keep FPG a neighborhood school

Posted on April 19, 2012April 18, 2012 by Staff

I am writing on behalf of the Frank Porter Graham elementary school community – a richly diverse school with more than 50 years of history. The recent dual-language report under consideration by the school board will end this community as we know it. The report calls for FPG to become a “magnet school” for the district’s dual-language program, busing students from across our district to this school and ending our access to our community school here in Carrboro.

The school board is charged with educating all our students, but there has got to be some consideration to our most vulnerable constituencies. The Karen community of refugees from Burma, people who fled their homeland for their very lives, is at home at FPG. Many of these families can walk to the school and the events that are hosted for parents, students and the community at large.
FPG scores are on the upswing – for all our students. Students from 41 countries learn at FPG!
We are not against dual-language education; we are against ending a neighborhood school’s long history of great education and diversity.

I hope the school board will vote to save this diverse, community school.

Laura Hayes Morgan
Chapel Hill

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