Save Wrightstown Elementary Group to Change Name, Broaden Message

The Save Wrightstown Elementary School group formed in response to Council Rock’s capital planning process will be changing its name with the hopes of getting more people involved in the process.

The group, which formed a Facebook page and online petition following a volunteer committee’s recommendations that Wrightstown Elementary School be closed, said it will now go by Team $ave Council Rock.

“As administration has modeled what a potential redistricting would look like due to a WES closure, we need to widen our net,” the group, headed by Amy McIntyre, posted on its Facebook page. “Our name is changing but our motivation and goal remains the same. We want to keep WES open, we just need to get more people in the fight.”

The post continues, “The idea is that we need all of the Council Rock community to be engaged and a part of this process…We want Council Rock to make fact based decisions rooted in academic excellence with the goal of using our expensive resources most efficiently.”

The group hopes to send a message to the entire community that closing Wrightstown Elementary wouldn’t only impact students who reside in that area. Closing Wrightstown and redistricting would mean more children at Sol Feinstone and Newtown Elementary, among other changes, the group points out in its post.

The Council Rock School Board is expected to discuss the capital plan during a meeting Thursday, which begins at 7 p.m. at the Chancellor Center.