Daily News | Asbestos closed their kids’ Philly school. These parents say ‘no’ to relocating to Strawberry Mansion
Some teachers and parents wondered why their students couldn’t continue learning virtually. Others wondered why Building 21, with 390 students, couldn’t relocate to district headquarters, where Science Leadership Academy students learned when asbestos and construction issues temporarily closed the building they shared with Benjamin Franklin High School.
One parent wept when she contemplated the possibility of her son attending classes in Mansion’s building. Her older son was shot and killed in that neighborhood in 2020. “I said, you might as well put me in truancy — I’m not sending my daughter to a neighborhood that she’s not familiar with,” said Lokey. “Is she going to have to fight her way out of school? There’s a chance she could get shot on the way home. I’m not OK with it; a lot of parents aren’t OK with it.”
District officials, in a statement, said Mansion was chosen to minimize travel time for students and staff, because the building was able to accommodate all students at one site, and because it had amenities like a separate cafeteria, bathrooms, and entrance for Building 21. Part of Mansion has been designed by the district as “swing space,” used before when other buildings needed to be temporarily closed for repairs.
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