Baldwin School Student Maren Cohen gives an impassioned speech at the August 21st LMSD School Board Meeting
#growoakwell
HELP US SAVE OAKWELL FROM THE LMSD.
MONDAY DECEMBER 18, 8:00 p.m.
LMSD School Board Meeting
MEETINGS take place at
301 E Montgomery Ave, Ardmore, PA
TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT UPCOMING OAKWELL-RELATED EVENTS. VISIT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE
THURSDAY DECEMBER 14, 8:00 p.m.
Facilities & Purchasing Committee Meeting
Facilities Meeting at
301 E Montgomery Ave, Ardmore, PA
2023 Lower Merion High School Graduate, Turned Activist Noah Fohrer, Documents Her and Her Fellow LMSD Classmates Fight To Save & Preserve Oakwell.
Video Courtesy: Jan Terweish
Video Courtesy: Jan Terweish
With Oakwell shuttered, LMSD expects us to go away. No building plan has been submitted to the township. So, Oakwell's fate has NOT been determined.
Lower Merion Township residents are urged to speak out against the misuse of their taxes for Oakwell's destruction. Nonresidents can make a valuable contribution by simply being there to make a visual statement. Board meetings are admittedly tiresome, but let's make it more tiresome for the board than it is for us!
Updated Oakwell brochures and yard signs are available. If your yard sign was stolen, free replacement is offered.
Contact us at preserveoakwell@gmail.com
The above picture is what 13.4 acres of Oakwell looks like today. Home to 700 mature trees-some in excess of 100 years old. Home to hundreds of species of birds and other animals, and is the site of numerous historical structures.
Help us Preserve Oakwell.
If the Lower Merion School District proceeds with its plans, all of those trees, animals, and structures would disappear in favor of auxiliary athletic fields to be used by the students at Black Rock Middle School. Help us Save Oakwell
To find out more about the rich and impressive history of Oakwell Visit GROWOAKWELL.COM here you will also be able read letters from experts in their field regarding Oakwell and read stories from local media and news outlets.
If you would like to purchase a $9 SAVE OAKWELL or PRESERVE OAKWELL lawn sign, Please Email us at preserveoakwell@gmail.com
THE OAKWELL MOVEMENT is a group of students in the Lower Merion School
District (LMSD) dedicated to the preservation, stewardship, and re-imagining of uses for the
13.4 ecologically valuable and historically significant acres owned by LMSD.
For more info visit us at THE OAKWELL MOVEMENT.
Lower Merion School District touts their excellence in education, and their cooperation with the community, But actions speak louder than words. A hasty decision made years ago threatens to destroy hundreds of trees and an historic estate. While public support to save the property is growing, the school district stubbornly continues to forge ahead with their costly, ill-conceived plan
Harriton High School Student Pauli Voelkel Takes us on a Tour of Oakwell.
Lower Merion High School Senior Noa Fohrer Tells the LM School Board That They Are Out Of Touch With What Students Really Want, and That Destroying Oakwell Is Definitely Not On Their List Of Things To do.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please speak out at Lower Merion School Board Meetings
https://www.lmsd.org/board/meeting-schedule
clickn the specific meeting for details
Please write to Lower Merion School Board Directors communitycomments@lmsd.org
Please write to your Lower Merion Township Commissioner
http://www.lookup.lowermerion.org/forms/whocomm.html
Please write to Lower Merion Zoning Board Zoning Officer Scott Houchins. shouchins@lowermerion.org
Need help with these contacts? We're happy to assist
PLEASE VISIT OUR SISTER SITE AT GROWOAKWELL.COM
Some say that those of us who oppose the School Board plan to destroy hundreds of trees for ball fields are pitting the children against the trees. Nothing could be further from the truth. Of course our children are more important than the trees. Our children are also more important than school district programs.
Yes, we do understand the importance of school sports. But the greatest threat our children face is the prospect of environmental catastrophe. Environmental degradation will have a more profound impact on our children and their generation than any school program.
The School Board has prioritized its programs before our kids’ futures. They have endorsed a plan for sports fields, and then, having acknowledged that it is an environmentally bad plan, expect compromises be made to support those plans. The School Board has it backwards.
For the benefit of our kids’ future, we first need to commit to avoiding further environmental destruction, and then, given the constraints imposed, devise the best programs possible. Our children’s planet, and therefore our children, come first, not the programs. Our children deserve better from us. Twenty years from now we want to tell them with pride we acknowledged the problem and were were part of the solution, and contributed to saving their finite, priceless natural world.
“When children play in natural spaces, they’re far more likely to invent their own games than in more structured settings – a key factor in becoming self-directed and inventive adults later in life”
~Richard Louv
"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Trees are sanctuaries.”
~Herman Hesse
Copyright © 2023 Preserve Oakwell - All Rights Reserved.
Powered by GoDaddy Website Builder
We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.