WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - It was a heated meeting Thursday night as the Wichita School District held its second listening session to get feedback from parents before making a final decision on closing six of its schools.

"If this goes through, the City of Wichita will not remember you guys for what you've done, or the good things you have done, but we will remember you for failing all of the poor children," said parent Ruth Lehman.

Lehman stood up in front of the entire room at Thursday's listening session and demanded her voice be heard.

"It's very clear that [the] administration is more than happy to cut some of the most impoverished schools out of the budget before they even touch a penny on their own cents," said Lehman.

Lehman says the reason she decided to give the speech in front of the whole room instead of joining one of the listening circles was because of what she found out the school is doing with everything the parents say in the sessions.

"Yesterday, they informed us that our comments will be reviewed by people and then evaluated and cherry-picked by AI," said Lehman.

WPS Operations Manager Fabian Armendariz says it's true.

"It really is a way in many ways to take away that human error element, where someone is looking for certain themes, that the system will automatically pull for us," said Armendariz.

Armendariz says when you ask people open-ended questions like the school is asking parents during these sessions, you often get answers based on personal opinions and feelings rather than on facts.

He says once the meetings are complete, AI will analyze comments received from parents and generate a report highlighting the top categories of concern, which the team will use when presenting the board with a final closure recommendation on March 4th.

However, many parents argue that the human emotion of the situation is what the district should consider the most.

"I have lost both my parents. I have lost my sister. And now we are losing our school. And that's how it's impacted my life," parent Ashley Hawley told staff members during the listening circle.

Hawley says the emotional burden it will put on her family if the board closes Cleaveland, her 4th-grade son's school, is worth more than any amount of money.

And Lehman agrees, saying as hard as it's been for her, Cleaveland is her 5-year-old daughter Lyra's second home.

"Do you want to have to change schools," we asked Lyra.

"No, 'cause I really like to learn and stuff, and I really like my principle there," she responded.

The next and final meeting is Monday, 5:30 pm, at AMAC Administrative Center, where the focus will be on Clark and Jardine.