The Acadiana Advocate reports that most of the changes the board adopted were recommended by Civic Solutions Group, a strategic planner hired to help the district create and carry out an optimization plan.
Students who now attend Lafayette Middle will be dispersed among four middle schools. Lafayette Middle Principal Tia Trahan spoke out against the closure.
"It is very unsettling to think that our currently zoned students will be split up into not one, but four different schools, losing their sense of community, belonging, purpose, work and belief that they matter," she said.
Board Member Roddy Bergeron said the choice was a tough one but was mostly motivated by the deteriorating conditions of S.J. Montgomery.
Mike Kennedy has been writing about education forAmerican School & Universitysince 1999. He also has reported on schools and other topics for The Chicago Tribune, The Kansas City Star, The Kansas City Times and City News Bureau of Chicago. He is a graduate of Michigan State University.
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