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Community urges board to preserve in-person Latin instruction after scheduling changes
Summary
Multiple parents, alumni and Latin teachers told the Fayetteville-Manlius board that a recent plan to reduce in-person Latin sections and move a seventh-grade class to remote instruction threatened enrollment and the program pipeline; teachers said a later reversal left uncertainty and prompted some families to withdraw.
Several parents, alumni and Latin teachers addressed the Fayetteville-Manlius Board of Education during public comment to urge keeping in-person Latin instruction at both middle schools and to oppose remote delivery for seventh‑grade Latin.
Carrie Tyler, a Latin teacher in the district since 2008, said she had been told the program would shrink from 10 sections to seven and that a seventh-grade class at Wellwood had been slated to be taught remotely from another building. Tyler said she offered to teach an additional sixth class without extra pay to keep the program in-person but was at first denied that option;…
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