To the Editor:

By a slim majority (5 to 4), the LBI Consolidated Board of Education has voted to pursue closing the Ethel Jacobsen Elementary School and moving all of our 3- to 12-year-old students to the Long Beach Island Grade School. This is a mistake for many reasons.

At best, they are choosing the wrong school. Such a massive change to our education, our community, our Island should be approved by an overwhelming majority. It is far from it.

August 28, 2019