SEATTLE — Seattle Public Schools (SPS) may have backed off a plan to close nearly two dozen schools, but some parents are still upset that any school, especially elementary schools, could close.
They rallied Wednesday morning at one of the schools that could be a target for closure, Sacajawea Elementary. Dozens of students and parents gathered before the school day to call for the school to stay open.
Rachel Kubiak and her child showed up in the darkness of morning, not to get to school early, or for an early school day activity, but for the rally, where they were greeted by students singing in support of keeping the school open. For her and the other parents along with the students, closing the school would close a part of their community and their lives…