Piling dirt on subsiding Stoney Field, the football venue for Burke High School, is a small change indeed. Given that it was built on landfill, some of us must wonder. "What were they thinking?" It's a temporary fix at best.
Nevertheless, spending $1 million to put the field into play is also "small change," when you consider how much the Charleston County School District is spending on two glorious stadiums in Mt. Pleasant and North Charleston. No one could blame Burke's School Improvement Committee if it questioned the district's priorities.
Looking down the road just a tad, some cynics think that in the long term the district plans to ditch Burke High School despite its up-to-date campus. Just as the Archer school building is being sold, a day will come when the land dedicated to Burke will be just too valuable for a high school. As residents are pushed out of the peninsula by rising rents, so too the potential for high school students will continue to drop. Look how empty Burke already is.
Think I'm too gloomy? Look around you.
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