Moving Cabrillo Kids To Point Dume To Be Explained
Written by 991KBU on April 24, 2018
School officials met with parents at Juan Cabrillo Elementary School last night … to explain their thinking about ending elementary school instruction in Malibu Park … and shifting it to the Point Dume school campus.
A similar meeting is tomorrow night … for the parents at Point Dume.
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Neighbors to the Point Dume school will get a presentation about the plan … Thursday night.
And we are already hearing some noises from the point about the increased traffic that this would bring to the neighborhood …
School board member Craig Foster tells KBUU News that this second meeting … Thursday night … will explain the concept to the neighbors on Point Dume … and to listen.
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“Our goal is to stay close and working collaboratively not only with the school population but with the neighbors.”
Although the student population at Point Dume has dropped to 190 … the number of parents driving to the school would about double …
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“Point Dume at its peak had about 300 students … and this is going to have about 380 students there …. so it is going to be a bit more traffic than peak.
Foster says the school district will have to come up with innovative plans … like using electrically-powered minibuses to transport students to and from the Point Dume school.
All this is happening very fast … the meetings this week will be followed by a decision by the Santa Monica-Malibu school board next week.
