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Parents urge town to prioritize teen center, warn proposed survey misses key issues
Summary
Parents and residents told the council the town lacks accessible spaces for middle and early-teen residents and criticized the draft teen-center survey as methodologically weak and missing transportation questions; the survey remains under review.
During the Citizens Forum portion of the council meeting, several parents urged the Tolland Town Council to prioritize a new teen center and raised concerns about a draft survey meant to guide the project.
Parents said middle-school and early-teen residents currently have few face-to-face social opportunities. "We were purposely keeping them apart, and we should. That was what we had to do at the time, but it's something these kids have been catching up for," said Klush, a parent who gave a home address of 24 Liberty Street and thanked the council for placing the teen center on the agenda. Klush described a gap…
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