Wednesday, October 14, 2009

CCSD Needs to Repair Neglect of Rivers Campus


I'll admit: it looks like an earthquake hit it.

Seismic "repairs," is it now? So says Gregg Meyers in Tuesday's P&C regarding the Rivers campus where the Charter School for Math and Science has set up shop in portable classrooms. [See Rivers Campus Promised Funds]

According to the story, "The charter school and a proposed district program, currently called Lowcountry Technical Academy for Health, Human and Public Services, have received the board's OK to share space in the building, but the structure needs a considerable amount of work, including seismic repairs, before students can occupy it."

Those repairs would be from the nonexistent earthquake that occurred after CCSD last emptied the building of students, well documented previously on this website.

You've got to figure that the anticipated earthquake will actually occur when pigs fly, or when the proposed Lowcountry Tech materializes, whichever comes first.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This represents a wonderful opportunity for the successful coexistence and collaboration of public and public/charter schools coming together for the common cause of students and parents. If it is done right, this could become a model school.

Anonymous said...

Just in case you hadn't noticed, Charleston Charter School for Math and Science is already a model school. Only CCSD is trying to distract the rest of us from seeing what should be obvious. Just like they wrecked the main building when no one was looking just to keep the charter school from moving in. Ask our great Super just how much the mobile classrooms in the back yard of the Rivers campus are costing the district. Then ask her how much less it would have cost if she had moved forward on the renovations that were originally authorized in 2002. The earthquake issue didn't come up until they needed a trump card to block their critics. The purpose was to simply undermine community proposals on use of their neighborhood schools. Why was Rivers unsafe while Archer and Ron McNair were considered structurally sound?