“I don’t think I would have gotten the help I needed at any other school other than KAPS,” Katherine Anne Porter School graduate Austin Adams told the KAPS Board of Trustees on Monday night.
Adams was one of many KAPS students, teachers, parents and alumni who recited stories of how the school changed their lives. They were there together to face their fears that the school would soon be closing or at the minimum changing significantly enough that it would be unrecognizable to those in attendance. Without help, drastic changes are coming to KAPS soon due to financial instability, but those in the crowd were not ready to give in.
“This school has been a saving grace for so many in the community and surrounding communities as well,” Rochelle Nixon, a KAPS graduate said. “We could still change this. This is the point. We are all here as former students, alumni and parents. We are trying to change this outcome and make it a possibility for our children to have the same experience we did.”
