Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea then
http://www.magnoliavoice.com/2008/07/24/briarcliff-development/

$12 million to reopen the school on 28th – how did it fall into such disrepair? Seriously, how could fixing it possibly cost that much?

They sold off the high schools on queen anne and now have to bus kids all over town.

It seems like the school district has a history of short sightedness.

Chris,
I think the problem is that to reopen a school you have to bring it up to 2008 building code-seismically and everything else.

Same with the schools they closed only 2 years ago. To re-open, they have to bring them up to code. Hugely expensive.

It’s very disappointing that the district’s long-term planning is so poor we end up in crisis mode. At the meeting last night they discussed only the “fix” for next year. Not even looking at the next two or three years, which is probably how long it will take a longer-term “fix” to be developed.

my guess is that you will see portable classrooms at blaine and lawton for the next few years.

They found the money to replace old Coe School and also John Hay with taxpayer money. Why not Magnolia?

“It seems like the school district has a history of short sightedness.”

example–the african academy in magnolia!

After John Stanford died, we decided we would privately educate our children. Without a guiding force, I feared that there would be no direction. And look. Our children deserved better. Portable units are not the solution. Where are the great planners here? If changes are not made, the system will never improve. Private school is so expensive and should not be a solution to this problem. But, I could not subject my children to this mediocracy. It just doesn’t make sense.

re: Portables. Per the handouts from the school district….the only schools in our cluster that can house portables are Blaine and Old Hay. There is a rule about how much of the footprint can have structures on it, and Lawton, Coe and Hay already meet that ratio.

A great question to ask the district is how this growth could come as a surprise to them. A grassroots neighborhood group that proposed a high school 4 years ago (or more?) had demographic data showing the high rate of growth (of families/ school aged kids) in Magnolia/ QA- if they had that data, why didn’t the district?

I predict we’ll be having these emergency meetings every few years as the bubbles of growth move through. Kids approaching middle school and high school in this cluster will face it soon. Will the school district realize it now and be proactive so we don’t have to go through the short term fix fire drill?

I’m frustrated. The bottom line is that the district is 20 million in debt which makes any new/remodeled school that serves Magnolia/QA very unlikely. Our schools are great but I’m already worried about high school. We have a strong neighborhood that could make a HS strong if we could just stay together. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the new boundaries for school assignment gives us a choice that people will stick with through HS.

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