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Parents and students urge district to reduce combined classes and restore arts programs
Summary
Multiple public commenters, including a fifth‑grade student and parents from Liberty and Rogers schools, urged the board to limit multi‑grade "combo" classes and to restore VAPA (visual and performing arts) offerings; speakers linked combined classes to lost instructional time and student disengagement.
Parents and a student told the Chula Vista Elementary School District board that combined (multi‑grade) classes and reductions in visual and performing arts are harming student engagement and learning.
A fifth‑grade student who identified herself as Annie described feeling isolated in a combined fifth‑sixth classroom and said she missed art instruction: “Arte es un lugar donde las personas te pueden expresar...…
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