Teachers send out presidential appeal .
Menu Help Tips . The local school board is small political potatoes for some Neshaminy teachers trying to keep their middle school open. They've sought intervention from the nation's head honcho. So a team of sixth-grade teachers wrote him a letter explaining their plight. The letter idea was hatched as the sixth-graders and their teachers prepared for the annual social studies field trip to Washington, D.C., during the height of the school closure frenzy almost two weeks ago.