Philadelphia Neighborhoods | At Overbrook Elementary, The Fight against School Closure is Intergenerational

“You get a precious period of time to develop into a lot of the human being that you’re going to be, and a lot of that is determined by the nurturing and care that you receive during those developmental years,” Joell said. “It’s completely developmentally inappropriate to take [Overbrook Elementary] students from a place where they feel safe and cared about and are not just a number [and put] them in a space where they will become nothing but a number.”