ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – When the Anchorage School District voted to convert O’Malley Elementary into a French immersion school, Verena Gill said she was under the impression that the change would not affect her family.
With no children in elementary school anymore, it seemed to her like the closures and boundary changes that came would only affect students at those schools. Gill’s daughter, Juniper, is in 6th grade at Hanshew Middle School, which O’Malley feeds into.
“I didn’t see anything that would impact us and dug around, looked at things, and then on Monday, I received an email, telling me that there could be changes, boundary changes,” Gill said…