In the redistricting plans Atlanta Public Schools parents are currently reviewing, the two options call for the consolidation of Cook Elementary in the Capitol Gateway neighborhood and Hope-Hill Elementary in Old Fourth Ward.

The combined student body would attend one campus and the other would close.

Old Fourth Ward resident Priscilla Borders says shuttering Hope-Hill would leave the neighborhood with three closed schools all within a short walk of one another — Hope-Hill, the former Walden Middle School and former Howard High School.

In this Patch Voices editorial, she explains some alternative solutions and uses APS should consider.