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“Learn from past when deciding fate of old school buildings
- The contentious history of education in Carroll County,” Eagle Archives By
Kevin E. Dayhoff, Sunday, November 18, 2015
Recently, on Facebook, “Carroll Unite,” remarked: “Without
getting into whether schools should have been closed or not, we now find
ourselves as a county not finding the savings the commissioners thought would
so surely come by closing schools. While the schools may be spending less, now
there is the burden of what to do with three empty properties.
"Our thought: The county commissioners should have had a more
frank and detailed discussion about what would happen to the three properties
once the schools were closed PRIOR to forcing the board's hand in the closings.
Some of that discussion should have taken place with Guthrie and the BOE.
Again, our commissioners failed to plan ahead appropriately."
To which I added:
Hopefully - this might be of interest…
“Learn from past when deciding fate of old school buildings
- The contentious history of education in Carroll County,” Eagle Archives By
Kevin E. Dayhoff, Sunday, November 18, 2015 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-archives-educat-1115-20151111-story.html
In the past year or so, the local news has dined on a steady
diet of discussion and acrimony over various education issues in Carroll
County. If you think that our present day public discourse is interesting;
researching the contentious history of education in Carroll County is an
historian’s dream.
[…]
But it is at times like this that one wonders why old school
buildings on college campuses are respected, revered and often saved with great
pride; yet older public school buildings, that many taxpayers made huge
sacrifices to pay for through hard-earned taxpayer dollars and bake sales, are
simply discarded by the government like used candy wrappers after it is no
longer convenient to use and maintain them.
Generations upon generations will be sad if the old 1936
Westminster High School building is closed. Especially because in the past,
Local and state government have developed a horrific reputation of demolishing
old historic public structures by incompetence and willful neglect. (Then
again, in recent years, under the current county staff leadership, there are
examples in the county of successful adaptive re-use of the old structures.)
It is simply unconscionable to allow a building that was
once the vibrant social, emotional and economic center of a community to simply
be allowed to die and rot in the middle of that community. Yet public officials
do it all the time. I guess they can’t see it from their house.
One can only hope that if old historic public buildings are
to be closed that concurrent conversations are taking place to re-use the
structures for the benefit of the greater community. It is simply a violation
of the public trust to simply allow the buildings to painfully crumble before
our eyes.
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