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Parents, students warn board proposed Mary Woodward boundary changes risk disruption, mental-health harms
Summary
Multiple speakers urged the Tigard-Tualatin board to reconsider proposed boundary moves that would transfer students from Mary Woodward Elementary to a new neighborhood school; speakers cited stability, mental-health concerns, McKinney-Vento protections and poor timing of outreach.
Public comment at the March 11 Tigard-Tualatin School Board meeting focused heavily on proposed elementary boundary changes affecting Mary Woodward Elementary School. Several parents, a second-grade student and a licensed clinical social worker described anxiety about forced transfers, asked for more community engagement and urged the board to consider the mental-health and academic impacts of multiple school moves.
Eight-year-old Saoirse McCool opened the series of comments, identifying herself as a second-grader and asking the board to “reconsider your decision to change the boundaries for my school,” reading a poem and…
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