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Modular Buildings/Portable
Classrooms
by Robert D. Warner
May 29, 2004
Saturday
Using modular buildings/portable classrooms seems like an excellent
idea to solve the White Cliff problem. Why not move a few of
them to each existing elementary school and save taxpayers the
cost of operating a separate school?
It would be wrong to shift Revilla High School students around
from one place to another. They deserve better. Why not relocate
central office staff to the UAS Robinson Building to free up
more space? For years that building hasn't been used for much
of anything.
We might discover that we don't need quite so many schools and
the cost of operating them. Folks in Juneau were perhaps saying
that when the wisely said "no" to building a new high
school. When is the Ketchikan School Board and Borough Assembly
ever going to learn that taxpayers in this commuity cannot afford
to pay for everything they want?
Robert D. Warner
Ketchikan, AK - USA
Related News and Information:
The Ketchikan School Board
will hold a Special Meeting and a Worksession for the community
to discuss options for White Cliff. Agenda
 Listen to this KRBD story... The Ketchikan School Board Wednesday night
received six alternatives for housing White Cliff Elementary
School's 270 students next year. As Deanna Garrison reports,
the School Board also heard more discouraging news about the
probability of the District remaining in the White Cliff building
during the 2004-2004 school year.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Friday - May 28, 2004
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