Posted by Fixerupper on January 23, 2013 at 10:43:59 from (100.42.82.30):
In Reply to: School consolidation posted by Greg K on January 23, 2013 at 10:00:03:
Like what was mentioned, it's a sign of the times. We went through that twenty years ago. Two schools that had been viscious rivals for generations merged. A couple of years later this new merger, merged with another district that involved two districs that had merged years before that. So now we have had four towns involved in one district that's forty miles long by maybe twenty miles wide. They started out with high school in one building, middle school in another and grades 1-6 in the other two buildings. Then about 12 years ago or so this new district build a new K-12 building in the country by one of the towns. Taxes went up and people grumbled but this new building is far more efficient than maintaining the four old brick three story behemoths with the huge single pane windows and there's no more shuttling kids between school buildings. A couple of years ago, a fifth district, which is a consolidation of two districts started shipping their high school students to this new school under a shared agreement. So now, this new school building has high school students from six former districts and middle and grade school students from four former districts. (whew) A lot of fuel is burned up every day in transportation, but we just don't have the population we used to. One benefit we do have transportation-wise is we're on pretty much flat land with good straight well maintained roads so the buses spend a minimal amount of time on the road. Jim
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