Class of 2019 to be the last at Dana

First there was a note from a name that I was not familiar with. Then came a note from Principal Ryan.
San Diego Unified School District needs to close ten schools in order to address next year's budget deficit. On October 3rd the District's School Closure Committee presented the following recommendations to the Point Loma Cluster Foundation.

DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE POINT LOMA CLUSTER:

1. Close Cabrillo Elementary effective July 2012.
2. Close Barnard campus but keep the Mandarin Magnet K-6 program by relocating it to the Dana campus effective September 2012. Expand the magnet focus from Mandarin Chinese to a Pacific Rim Language Immersion K-8 program.
3. Close Dana Middle School Grade 5 effective July 2012.
4. Convert Dewey, Loma Portal, Ocean Beach, Silver Gate, Sunset View from K-4 to K-5 schools effective September 2012.
5. Dana's current fifth graders will return to Dana for sixth grade in September 2012. The sixth grade program will share the Dana campus with the Pacific Rim Language Immersion K-8 program for the 2012-13 school year.
6. Completely close Dana Middle School effective July 2013.
7. Correia's grade level configuration remains the same for 2012-13, but will convert to a 6-8 middle school in 2013-14. Correia will serve as the only middle school in Point Loma.
8. Point Loma High School is not impacted by the draft recommendations.


First, the feedback from local FB parents were more like "sounds great! keep kids at elementary longer! positive!" However, I wonder what the feedback is going to be with the closing of Dana all together. I know this much, the past few years at OBE in the fall, when they kept rearranging rooms, teachers and student, it was BAD. I can't imagine the negativity and commotion it will be with rearranging the whole cluster. Ugh. What are other options we could look into? Start applying at other charter schools, other than HTH? This is so not cool.