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San Francisco Unified plans to move Bernal Heights early education classrooms; parents call it a closure

Disputing the district's 'transition' description

About 80 preschool and transitional kindergarten students at Junipero Serra Annex in Bernal Heights will have different classrooms next fall. The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) told families in September that the program will move to Mission Education Center and John McLaren Early Education School in fall 2027.

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None of the teachers know where they’re going next year.

from San Francisco Unified plans to move Bernal Heights early education classrooms; parents call it a closure · Updated 1 hour ago

That’s actually not what’s happening. The staff at the school has done a tremendous job of building such a strong community and for the district to just kind of like come in and wipe that out with no family involvement, no discussion, and then to kind of pretend it’s not happening by calling it a ‘relocation’ and a ‘transition’ is evasive and frustrating.

from San Francisco Unified plans to move Bernal Heights early education classrooms; parents call it a closure · Updated 1 hour ago