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Box Elder parents and former officials urge district to prioritize crumbling middle schools over moving ninth grade
Summary
At a packed Box Elder School District meeting, dozens of residents urged the board to rebuild aging middle- and elementary-school buildings and to delay plans to move ninth grade into high schools, citing survey results and safety concerns after a failed bond measure.
Hundreds of residents and several former education officials pressed the Box Elder School District board on May 7 to reverse or delay a proposed reconfiguration that would move ninth graders into high schools, arguing the district should first replace aging, unreinforced-masonry middle and elementary schools.
Melissa Little, a first-grade teacher at Century Elementary, told the board she opposed last fall’s bond because she feared the grade-reconfiguration element would place immature ninth graders among older high‑school students,…
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