Schools
Parents Organize Rally Protesting Prince of Peace Closure
Parents and students schedule rally to demonstrate opposition to June 2012 closure of school, as announced Tuesday by the Dioceses of Rockville Centre.
parents have been hard at work developing a plan of action to convince the Dioceses of Rockville Centre to to close the Sayville School next June.
Parents are not accepting the decision without a fight, and plan to hold a peaceful protest at the school on Saturday at 9 a.m., according to Holtsville resident Marguerite Hachem, a parent of two students at the school.
“We need our voices to be heard, this is our second home,” she said. “We won’t go down quietly, but we will rally peacefully.”
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Hachem requests that children dress in uniform, and encourages parents and kids to bring signs with them to the rally.
To further the discussion, parents also created a facebook page dedicated to the fight to reverse the Dioceses decision, titled Save Prince of Peace School Sayville.
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Officials with the Diocese announced Tuesday that it would close six of its 53 elementary schools on Long Island at the end of the 2011-12 school year due to declining enrollment and other issues.
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