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Teachers and parents urge board not to move the ALC into Southwest Middle School
Summary
Multiple Southwest Middle School teachers and district parents told the board the proposed move of the Area Learning Center (ALC) into Southwest would mix developmentally different populations and displace spaces used by social workers and special-education students. Speakers asked the board to reconsider and to prioritize leadership and student safety.
Several teachers and parents used the meeting's public-comment period to urge the Albert Lea board to reconsider a proposal to move the Area Learning Center (ALC) into Southwest Middle School.
Neil Chalmers, a teacher with three decades in the district, said the plan would combine older ALC students (up to age 21) with younger middle-schoolers and would place impossible demands on Southwest's principal, Tyler Johnson. "This proposal asks him to give 200% and he can't do that," Chalmers…
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