Monitor staff
Published: 11/7/2021 11:00:10 AM
For those who are interested in learning more about the Rundlett Middle School building project or sharing an opinion on grade configuration, there will be two opportunities to do so next week, and another the week after. The Concord School Board is holding two public forums on Monday and Tuesday to discuss the options and gather public opinion.
Monday’s forum will be held in person in the Beaver Meadow School gymnasium from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday’s forum will be held in the Abbot-Downing School gymnasium from 5:30 to 7 p.m. A week later, on Nov. 16, the district is holding a virtual meeting at 5:30 p.m. for those who were unable to attend the prior meetings in person. At each session, district officials will give a brief overview of the project, followed by a public comment session where families and community members can share their thoughts and ideas.
The school board is currently considering two options for grade configuration in the new middle school building: staying with the current system of grades six to eight or expanding the middle school to also include fifth grade. The grade configuration will impact the way the new building is designed.
“Since this decision will affect 10-year-olds in Concord New Hampshire one way or another for a long time, we thought this was important,” school board member and Capital Facilities Committee member Barb Higgins said Monday.
“This is far too big a decision to fall upon a four-person committee and a nine-person board and an administrative team. We really do need public input from all facets of our community ... anyone who has something to add to this conversation is a necessary part of it.”
Eileen O'Grady is a Report for America corps member covering education for the Concord Monitor since spring 2020. O’Grady is the former managing editor of Scope magazine at Northeastern University in Boston, where she reported on social justice issues, community activism, local politics and the COVID-19 pandemic. She is a native Vermonter and worked as a reporter covering local politics for the Shelburne News and the Citizen. Her work has also appeared in The Boston Globe, U.S. News & World Report, The Bay State Banner, and VTDigger. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Northeastern University and a bachelor’s degree in politics and French from Mount Holyoke College, where she served as news editor for the Mount Holyoke News from 2017-2018.
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