It looks like a massive home sell off on Bond Avenue, but these Drexel Hill neighbors are putting up ‘for sale’ signs as a form of protest, reported Rebeccah Hendrickson for 6abc.com.

The school district is contemplating a $24 million expansion for Aronimink Elementary School that would encroach on an adjacent large field across from the Bond Avenue homes.

“We believe that this project is wasting taxpayer dollars,” said Margaret Parenti, one of the ‘for sale’ protestors. “We’re going to lose all this greenspace.”

Frank Salerno, director of Elementary Education said they have to look out for students, who are dealing with overcrowded classrooms.  The school expansion should help ease that overcrowding.

Right now, the district is renting two buildings from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, one in Glenolden, to resettle overcrowded students. If the expansion is OK’d, those students can come back to Upper Darby.

The District plans still need zoning approval and a variance for the height of the new proposed building.

Parenti said she’d rather see a new school built in the neighborhood where the kids live, rather than expand the school across from her home.

Find out more about this school expansion and protest here.

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