CONWAY — Even if the school district doesn’t downsize from three to two elementary schools, which the Conway School Board’s school closure committee is recommending, board member Randy Davison believes the sixth graders should all be moved to Kennett Middle School as soon as possible. Davison, a teacher himself at Molly Ockett School in Fryeburg, Maine, believes it’s the right thing to do educationally.
Davison hoped to have an in-depth discussion at the Conway board’s meeting last week, but with two members missing, the matter was tabled, though he did share some thoughts.
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