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‘You guys failed them’: Parents, community members berate school board for closing a Utah elementary school after years of low test scores

Cesar Reyes and Carmen Ramirez live across the street from where their two kids go to elementary school in Kearns.

As Ramirez gets ready for her late shift as a nurse, she watches from the family’s front window as her son and daughter skip along the sidewalk, backpacks bouncing, to the school’s front doors in the morning. And Reyes, a mechanic who works early, is there in the living room by the time they get home in the afternoon.

Next year, though, their kids, 10-year-old Gabriela and 7-year-old Julio, won’t be able to go to Oquirrh Hills Elementary.