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Parent urges board to fix accessibility, safety gaps at middle‑school track
Summary
Parent and teacher aide Katherine Smyser told the board wheelchair‑using students cannot use the district's dirt middle‑school track and must wheel around tennis courts; she urged inclusion, fencing and ADA upgrades beyond the current capital project.
Katherine Smyser, a parent and teacher aide in the district, used the Feb. 10 public comment period to press the board for accessibility and safety upgrades at the middle‑school track.
"We do have wheelchair users who participate in gym class at the middle school, and the current dirt track is inaccessible to them to the point where our wheelchair user students who participate in gym class have to wheel themselves around the tennis courts while their peers go around the track," Smyser said. She also flagged missing fencing between the track and nearby parking and Maple Road, citing safety concerns, and asked the board to consider upgrades not currently included in the capital plan. Smyser said conversations with Superintendent Dr. Michael V. Ginestre and Mr. Feldmann had been "amenable" but asked the board and community to think about non‑capital plan maintenance and accessibility priorities.
Board members did not take action during the meeting but the comment was entered into the record for future consideration.
