Oct. 20, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: To shut Gabriella Constitution Faculty can be a tragedy for college students and their households, academics and supporters (“A popular charter faces closure to make more room for an LAUSD school,” Oct. 16).
Gabriella, whose origins have root in making a tragic death depend for L.A.’s underserved kids, is a good college: rigorous, disciplined and joyous. College students know they’re protected and beloved by academics and directors who’re excited by their arduous work and reference to them.
The truth of the varsity “specializing in dance instruction” is that girls and boys of all sizes, in all grades, take a dance class taught by knowledgeable dancer each day. Some excel and grow to be members of a dance troupe that performs across the metropolis. Others overcome their embarrassment to train and carry out for his or her proud dad and mom. Dance is a part of their curriculum. The kindergartners dance the alphabet as they study.
The college board ought to spare the neighborhood this tragedy, compounded as it might be with so many others.
Louise Schwartz, Los Angeles
This author is a neighborhood volunteer at Gabriella Constitution Faculty.
