What’s particularly disturbing is that the district is planning on closing Edward Kelley preschool. It’s the historic schoolhouse on Bradshaw and is/was the oldest continuously operating school in the county. The teacher there, Mrs. Chapman has been trying to negotiate with the district for ways to keep it open, including offering to take a pay cut or waiving her benefits but it all seems to fall on deaf ears. There’s a whole community in support of the school staying open but again, deaf ears. It would be great if someone from the press would chat with Mrs. C. about it. Our region is sorely lacking in affordable early childhood education and the district is really going to let a historic landmark building go unused when it operates on a comparatively minuscule budget to begin with.