When did the taxpayers of Charleston County indicate that they wished for 5,000 student high schools? Never.
Now we have a superintendent who is proposing that a new building for a middle college be built on the Wando campus, a campus where its now 3500-student body already causes traffic nightmares. Imagine the future.
Where is the logic in putting all of Mt. Pleasant's students into one high school? Since 1000-student high schools by all measures are better for the students, the district should be thinking in the other direction. In fact, where is the logic in having all of these students at one end of Mt. Pleasant, not easily accessible from the older parts of the town?
There is a perfectly good campus located at the old Wando High School. Why not build a middle college there? Why spend $56 million to create traffic jams? Where are the plans for middle colleges at the other high schools such as Burke and James Island?
McGinley is determined to push this stupid agenda at the October 10th meeting. Contact your board members ASAP!
Monday, October 10, 2011
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No problem here. She'll conduct a series of her infamous "community forums," hear the backlash from the community, and delay it. Isn't this the way she always operates? She's floated so many of these "trial balloons" we should be accustomed to it. Just another quagmire in the waiting. I love it!
Whatever became of the community's original call for a 2nd high school before anything else was put on the overcrowded new Wando campus? According to McGinley, if it doesn't support her chosen plan, contrary public opinion doesn't exist.
Check out the P&C published report in November 2008 showing solid support for a 2nd East Cooper high school before going forward with any expansion of Wando.
Bill Lewis says Mt. Pleasant will get a 2nd high school, but it will be sometime after 2018. In the mean time he wants to put 4,000 students, maybe more, on the Wando High campus.
OK, but when will the career and technology academy (or middle college) actually be available to students at Wando? In 2014 or 2015? Not much help for today's high school freshmen and sophmores. This totally forgets juniors and seniors.
When will the other high schools in the county have access to a middle college programs? After 2018, if then. Maybe not at all.
Isn't this really all about another new multi-million dollar building contract? There's been almost no discussion about the programs the building will be designed to serve.
Shouldn't we be talking about how to get this career and technology program going immediately? Next year's high school juniors and seniors aren't waiting for a new building but they would greatly appreciate a program that gave them duel credit for Trident Tech or a leg up on a career.
This was the promise that Nancy McGinley extended to Burke High students in 2006. Where is that promise now?
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