It's grotesque and ludicrous, not merely laughable.After years of planning and months of construction on the new building to house both the Academic Magnet High School and the School of the Arts, the CCSD School Board has voted to allow parents and certain students to vote on whether the Magnet will move at all. [See Academic Magnet Might Reject Facility in Monday's P & C.]
You can't make this stuff up.
Do you wonder why the Academic Magnet parents don't trust the School Board to keep its word regarding a non-merger of the two schools?
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I'm off the subject here. I was just watching the school board candidates debate and I can't for the life of me determine what most of them had to say.
Yet, if I was Chris Collins I'd be real angry at Mr. Douglas for 2 reasons: 1) you didn't tell me you had to live in Dorchester County if you wanted to attend their schools (that was my excuse for increase in population yet declining enrollment in our Charleston schools, daggumit.
2) I am not Elizabeth Kandrac, so why the heck did someone not move that name tag from in front of my face!!
Is that a taste of what it will be like on the school board? OH, YES, Mr. Collins. And I'll help you take your signs down if you want me to. Run now while you still have the chance.
I read this from a completely different perspective. The Academic Magnet parents are getting a new building WITH the resources already intact for a successful school. That's a lot more than we have in District 20. I say "take it and run!"
Even though I do understand why the Academic Magnet parents, etc., don't trust the school board's "promise" that the two schools won't be merged, I still think it is perfectly assinine to allow the Academic Magnet "community" to decide that they don't want to move into a brand new, state of the art school. You are so right! This kind of stupidity can't be made up. There are schools in the district that would give anything to have the opportunity to have such a wonderful school. The Charleston County SChool Board should be the laughing stock of the state, if it isn't already.
I am a graduate of AMHS and don't understand why a new building is needed. AMHS students did well when the school was housed on Burke's campus. We did well while on the Naval Base. If I am correct, after I graduated, another wing was added on to the existing building. The students teachers, administration and parents are what has made AMHS sucessful. Why not use those resources to help schools that could truly benefit from the upgrades and assistance?
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