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Rural parents, students urge Atascadero Unified to restore grades 6'8 at Carissa Plains Elementary
Summary
A group of parents and students from Carissa Plains Elementary told the board that sending older students to town will require multi-hour bus rides and urged the district to hire a teacher to keep grades 6'8 on campus or create on-campus virtual options.
Parents and students from Carissa Plains Elementary told the Atascadero Unified School District board on April 1 that the planned move of sixth through eighth grades to town would force some children onto buses for more than two hours each way, and they asked the board to hire another teacher to keep those grades at the rural campus.
Pedro Ruiz, speaking for a group of parents, said the board's prior decision to add a second teacher two years ago helped families and asked trustees to consider funding another teacher now. "If we don't ask, we don't receive," Ruiz said during…
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