Deer Creek parents express concerns about new elementary

Parents in the Deer Creek School District met at Church of the Servant on Thursday to talk about Spring Creek Elementary School.

 
BY JONATHAN SUTTON jsutton@opubco.com | Modified: January 25, 2013 at 10:07 pm | Published: January 26, 2013    Comment on this article Leave a comment

The first of two parent forums about Deer Creek's newest elementary school yielded many questions, the most pressing being whether the school will open on time.

photo - Work is proceeding on a new Deer Creek elementary school north of NW 150 and Rockwell.  Photo by Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman <strong>PAUL HELLSTERN</strong>
Work is proceeding on a new Deer Creek elementary school north of NW 150 and Rockwell. Photo by Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman PAUL HELLSTERN

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Another meeting set

Parents will have another chance to express concerns at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Coffee Creek Baptist Church, 1650 Coffee Creek Road. The meeting will follow the same style as Thursday's and run until 8 p.m.

About 50 parents gathered Thursday at Church of the Servant to meet with school board members and administrators about the new campus and the redistricting proposals.

Spring Creek Elementary is scheduled to open in the fall as the district's fifth elementary, which will prompt a relocation of more than 15 percent of the elementary students.

A redistricting task force has drawn up two plans, one of which is scheduled to be chosen by the board early next month.

School board Vice President Danny Barnes said contractors expect to finish the building in early July, but Barnes said the board is pushing for an earlier completion date.

Parents asked what administrators have planned in case the school is not ready to open.

Superintendent Bill White said a backup plan would put classes at an alternate site until Spring Creek could be finished.

“All the teachers and students would move as a unit,” White said.

The redistricting is the second in three years, and several parents asked whether their children would have the option of staying at their present schools.

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