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Parkrose public commenter urges reversal of proposed high-school choir cut; district cites $75,000 staffing savings and $3 million shortfall
Summary
A Portland State choral volunteer urged the Parkrose budget committee to retain the high school choir program; district leaders said the choir position would save about $75,000 but acknowledged the cut would remove a key source of belonging for roughly 30 students and said they will seek alternatives if possible.
A Parkrose budget committee public commenter urged the district to reconsider a proposed cut to the high school choir program, telling the committee the elimination would remove a primary source of community and belonging for many students.
"This is gonna remove their main source of community, belonging," said Apollo Firmway, a Portland State University student, choral music educator and volunteer with the choir program, during the meeting’s public-comment period. He said many choir students do not play another instrument and that removing the program would…
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