The signers of this petition call on the Special Administrative Board (SAB) of the St. Louis Public Schools (SLPS) to immediately rescind the deed restrictions on closed public school buildings which prohibit buyers of the buildings from reopening them as schools. These buildings were built with taxpayer funds for the purpose of educating our children. This policy defeats that purpose and harms our communities and our city by limiting educational opportunities for our children.
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Last 10 of 41 signatories
Pamela Parsons, Barrington IL 75 Lakeview Parkway 60010
This deed restriction hurts everyone. There is nothing that insures that everything that is harmful in the world will continue than to block opportunities for excellent education. To refuse to allow new schools to purchase buildings that used to be available for schooling is insanity. What are you doing to your community, your future? What can you be thinking?
Melissa Von Rohr, St. Louis MO 5950 Kingsbury Ave 63112
It is ludicrous that a School Board with such dire education issues passed legislation restricting closed school buildings from being used as schools.
Dianne Gray, St. Louis MO 41 Kingsbury Place 63112
I only heard of this issue 2 weeks ago, and am FURIOUS that taxpayer owned property and the communities they are in have been abused so thoughtlessly by the SAB. I truly cannot believe it was legal for such a deed restriction to be imposed without input from citizens.
Briana Vogel, St. Louis MO 6508 Southwest Ave 63139
My daughter is now attending a St. Louis Public School and the class room is overcrowded with students. I recall a few years back that several city school were closed and students had to be bused to other schools, which doubled the sizes of the classrooms. If the schools would sell these properties it would allow for them to reopen and give our children the opportunity to have a better learning experience and more one on one with the teachers because the classrooms will not be overcrowded.
Janet S. Snyder,
Amanda Brown Kidwell, Saint Louis MO 5839 Southwest Ave. 63139
These school buildings do not belong to the school district, they belong to the people. As such the people may determine that an abandoned school building may be used in a similarly suitable manner, including but not limited to not-for-profit private and charter schools or any other not-for-profit agency.
Tristan Meck, Kansas City MO 6158 NE Meadow Lane 64118
Schools are an integral part of our society and communities. The use of the deed restrictions benefits no one. Please reconsider your position for the good of the community and the education of those surrounding theses abandoned facilities.
xxxxxxxx, Saint Louis Missouri 7816 N. Broadway 63147
Why let publicly funded buildings go to waste, especially when the children still need an education.
xxxxxxxx, Saint Louis Missouri 3131 morganford road 63316
How could you possibly oppose more schools?
xxxxxxxx, St.Louis MO 7082 Lindenwood Pl. 63109
