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Greenfield parents urge Birmingham Public Schools to offer junior kindergarten at their home school
Summary
Multiple Greenfield parents told the Birmingham Board of Education that junior kindergarten is being offered at seven district elementary schools but not Greenfield, calling the rollout confusing and inequitable and urging the board to add the program or move an existing site to Greenfield.
Parents at the Feb. 25 Birmingham Board of Education meeting urged the district to offer junior kindergarten at Greenfield Elementary after learning the program will be available at seven of the district’s eight elementary schools but not Greenfield.
Katie Schimanski, a Birmingham Public Schools graduate, teacher and Greenfield parent, said the district’s enrollment rollout produced “conflicting information and frustrating dead ends” and that Greenfield families were left to decide whether to send children outside their neighborhood for a…
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