Originally Posted by tyeman200
Same thing with my city; before the 90s, there was just 2 Catholic schools, both that were built in the 50's and 60s. One of the high schools (my former one) wasn't even a high school till 1988 (used to be a seminary, then an all boys and boarding school). Since the 90s, they have built about 7 new high schools, the most recent being 2013.
My only problem with them closing schools, is closing the rural ones. I agree with them closing the inner city ones, but the rural ones I have a problem with. Mainly because those kids have to travel at least 30 minutes to a hour, on a bus, just to get to school. Plus, the fact that each year they have about 5-10 schools on the chopping block, which is just too much to close year after year.
IMO, the public school board should be closing and merging their schools more effectively, or at least making repairs to the ones they kept open over others. For example, back when they wanted to close Sherwood, Mountain and Hill Park schools, they decided to keep Sherwood and close Barton. But present day, if you have been to Sherwood recently, it is just a crap hole. It looks like it had been closed for the past few years. The exterior walls are falling apart, the courtyard is a mess, cobwebs everywhere, missing ceiling tiles, doors/walls that need repainting, etc. It wouldn't be a surprise to me if they just ended up closing that school as well, since they neglected it and made no repairs to it whatsoever.
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