District asks community how to honor soon-to-be-closed Parma High School and Parma Park and Renwood elementary schools

PARMA, Ohio — Under the banner of “Honoring Our Previous, Envisioning Our Long term,” the Parma City School District is scheduling various meetings this thirty day period connected to its new consolidation selection.

That consolidation includes closing Parma High College, Parma Park Elementary College and Renwood Elementary College immediately after the 2022-2023 university yr.

The district would like to honor the legacy of these educational institutions, which is why they are reaching out to the neighborhood.

“We really do not have established-in-stone tips, so these conferences are definitely open periods for us to just listen,” Superintendent Charles Smialek reported.

“Do we want to have specific football video games in which we’re going to honor distinct lessons? How do we make the very last yr for all three of these universities as memorable as probable? How do we make absolutely sure we’re hunting again and stating this is our past and we’re very pleased of it?

“Also, as we start to system the consolidation, how do we make it as constructive for our families and personnel users and our young ones who are at these educational institutions appropriate now? Now is the time to begin to have these conversations,” Smialek mentioned.

Redmen learners, mothers and fathers, staff, alumni and the group are invited to attend a 6 p.m. July 19 meeting in the Crimson Rees Place at Parma Significant University.

Subsequent is a 6 p.m. July 26 conference, also in the Pink Rees Space, with regards to Renwood Elementary College and Parma Park Elementary Faculty.

Both affairs will be centered all around preserving historical past and making unforgettable excursions for folks to pay a visit to the properties that served the local community for the superior fifty percent of a century.

“We’ve by now read from a first rate variety of residents asking if there are heading to be stroll-throughs in the buildings,” Smialek said. “Obviously, we have a whole lot of time to prepare people. We’ll be pretty lively earning absolutely sure individuals can tour and see where by they made use of to sit or have class.”

As for the district’s recently permitted 6-3-2 consolidation system model — which features reconfigured quality bands at the remaining 11 schools to K-4, 5-8 and 9-12 — the superintendent said the community appears to have accepted the fact.

“In all honesty, the negativity looks to have died down,” Smialek claimed. “We’re making an attempt to get individuals listed here to realize the actual eyesight listed here is not two large colleges becoming Valley Forge and Normandy, but just one superior faculty being (a model-new) Parma Senior Higher.

“Obviously, we want some aid to go that challenge this slide, but finally which is the correct eyesight of the future of our district.”

Pertaining to Parma Significant Faculty, district officials a short while ago toured the setting up with architects GPD about honoring the school’s loaded tradition in a new facility. This bundled the clock tower.

“We’ve even presently engaged our architects to see how we can preserve legendary pieces of the school, like the famed clock tower,” Smialek claimed. “We want to honor and respect the previous, not erase it.”

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