A year ago last March, when word first leaked the Culver Park continuation school campus, ready or not, was being shifted off the garden-like El Marino Language Immersion School campus, Karlo Silbiger issued a warning:
Sounding a clarion call, the School Board member said that School District officials should reassess Culver Park’s relocation after a year.
The 70’ish student body is not quite living out of a car.
However, the portables that students occupy atop an asphalt lot don’t remind them of the cushy comforts of home, either.
On the eve of a holiday, it is not known whether the reassessment was carried out. It also is not known what the score was if the review did take place.
David Mielke, president of the Teachers Union, who carries a soft landing ground in his heart for Culver Park, where he taught 19 years, raised the question of Culver Park’s geographical status last evening in an interview with the newspaper.
He said that Prof. Patricia Siever, whose term on the School Board ends this week, “was the strongest advocate for the kids at Culver Park.
“The kids at Culver Park had better not be forgotten,” Mr. Mielke said. “Patricia really understood that they are our neediest kids, and they have been shunted off to these portable classrooms in a parking lot.
“Patricia was the one who kept reminding the Board that this was a temporary move.
“Now that she is off the Board, I am afraid for the future.
“I hope the new Board will remember,” said Mr. Mielke, “that this move is supposed to be temporary.
“How about if I predict out of my hope that the new School Board, as their first task, will be, ‘we need a real school for our neediest students.’”
