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In this short video, Superintendent Roger Bearup explains why the district needs more educational space.

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Hi! This is Roger Bearup, superintendent of Grandville Public Schools. You know, we are having a bond coming up November 5th, and we wanted to do some short videos to give you an idea of the why behind some of the things that we are focusing on. We had committees meet and they defined some key areas for the bond. One is creating educational space. I just want to talk to you a little bit about why we need to create educational space. Our elementaries are at capacity or very near capacity and what is happening is we are having situations where we have to kind of go against our values. We believe in lower class sizes, we believe in being able to develop programs for students, whether it's new programs like an immersion program, and also we know we have growth in our community growth that impacts the things we're trying to do with programs. As an example if we have to create a new classroom due to high class sizes and enrollment, there are times where we have to make decisions about: do we put music on a cart? Do we have music and art share classes? Do we have to move preschool from a building to another building as examples, and those go against our values. So we had discussion about how to create classroom space and there's a lot of growth south of town right now and the idea was let's build an elementary; well, that would help south of town but it does not help in town and we have growth here it doesn't help north of the river in Walker where we also have growth or potential growth. So what we decided to do is create a new middle school, and by doing that, we can move 5th grade and 6th grade to the current middle school which gives classroom space for every building, every elementary building within our district. So we're not only looking for now, and we are at capacity now, but we are looking for the growth that might take place over the next decade. We appreciate you listening to the "why." If you have any more questions, please don't hesitate to call my office. Thank you for your time.

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