Thursday, November 17, 2011

OPM Spent on Ron McNair Questionable at Best

Since the Charleston County School District's much-touted Sixth Grade Academy silently folded its tents and faded into the night last summer, embarrassed by its failures, the Ron McNair building (formerly used while Orange Grove Elementary Charter School was being replaced) has stood vacant, a silent spectator of a wasteful building program in the district.

Never mind that Chicora Elementary, also in North Charleston, has suffered for years the slings and arrows of every heavy rainstorm that arrives. And they do.

In a masterful display of planning in advance, CCSD has now determined that Chicora's environment is so bad for its students that the school must move midyear to Ron McNair.

But wait. . .  

The district plans to spend $700,000 of OPM to ready the Ron McNair building for the influx. No mystery.

The San Franciscan's buddies are at the controls again.

5 comments:

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Babbie said...

Nice, Brian, but just a tad off topic.

Anonymous said...

Didn't Bill Lewis call McNair a seismic school before all this happened?

Clisby said...

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Anonymous said...

Ron McNair is a two story building, unreinforced masonry, etc etc so yes it is seismically scary! But since its up in North Charleston where there actually are occaisional tremors its just fine!