Today Prescott School Missoula was attending church and during the part of the service where people can come to the podium and deliver an announcement a MIS employee spoke.
This MIS employee (the librarian and something else) was speaking to the congregation about the avalanche in the neighborhood of the MIS school. She stated that MIS used the church's building for their classes for the younger grades (K-3rd or 4th) for a day when the school was closed due to avalanche warnings on Mt. Jumbo. Remember, that Prescott School is at the base of Mount Jumbo and that the Rattlesnake avalanche on February 28th was just three blocks up from the school.
The MIS employee stated that Missoula International School was located in the old Prescott Building in the Rattlesnake!!
Did everyone catch that?!! This wording may give someone that is not familiar with the Missoula International School/Prescott School lease the impression that Prescott School is an old school and even that Prescott School is not owned by Missoula County Public Schools!!
This is just another tactic by Missoula International School and probably by MCPS to avoid the obvious conflict of leasing a public school to a private school.
Question? Jefferson School, located by the mall on South Avenue is now housing the fine arts and the preschool program for MPCS. Does one ever hear the phrase, "the old Jefferson building"? psm has never heard anyone use than wording for Jefferson,
Washington School most likely will not be called that for quite some time if ever as it is housing about 650 kids now that Rattlesnake Middle School was closed (by the same people who closed Prescott and most whom voted for the Prescott/MIS lease.
All three schools, Prescott, Jefferson, and Washington, were built in the same year and with the same design (just different sizes).
In other words, Prescott, Jefferson, and Washington could be called the 1951 triplets. psm likes that!!
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