Fatuma Muhina experienced one of Pittsburgh Public Schools’ most drastic facility changes as a student in 2008. Schenley High School was abruptly closed, and Muhina, then still adjusting to life in the United States as a refugee from Somalia, via Kenya, had her life turned upside down.
Now a parent of nine children, she fears similar disruption for her Somali Bantu community amid the district’s ongoing facility consolidation process. The proposal, alongside other changes, would close the North Side’s King PreK-8, where many of the community’s children attend.
“I feel like parents’ choices are being taken away,” Muhina told Public Source education reporter Lajja Mistry.
