Wearing school gear and buttons that say “Save Alpine Crest,” around 100 parents, teachers and students gathered at the Red Bank Community Center on Wednesday evening hoping to preserve their community school.
The school’s closure has been proposed by Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp and Superintendent Justin Robertson.
The effort to save the school came the same week Wamp told a Republican group that Red Bank is too woke, describing the area as “an unmitigated disaster” and as an area whose leaders “have run it completely into a ditch.”
Earlier this month a working group appointed by Wamp released a school facilities plan calling for campus closures and renovations in the interest of lowering maintenance costs by having fewer buildings.
Among other recommendations, the plan proposes building a new elementary school on the current DuPont Elementary site in Hixson, consolidating three out of four smaller schools in the area — Alpine Crest, DuPont, Hixson and Rivermont — onto one larger campus.