Click on the link below to read a pretty long - but GREAT article on the closing of two other Missoula schools, Roosevelt and Emma Dickinson.
School's Out?
psm has had people relay that the process of closing these schools was horrendous and a very stressful experience.
All school closures are stressful and for what? So there can be a program or two or some administrators get a higher salary.
The pitting of programs and school buildings is not a valid comparison; it is not an apples to apples comparison. It is an apples to oranges comparison and need not occur!
There is a couple of paragraphs in this article where one can read that a Missoula council person weighed in the issue.
A school board member stated that the council person was infringing in school board business. Not so, according to the council person - a school closure effects the entire city in many different areas (this is paraphrasing - perhaps psm will get a chance to provide quotes from the article soon).
What the council person said was so true!! There are so many negative ramifications to closing a school and the true cost is never made available. When Prescott, Mt. Jumbo, and Rattlesnake Middle Schools were in the process of being closed a citizen requested that the city government get involved, however, psm believes that no one from the city weighed in the issue, unfortunately.
psm recommends this article by the Missoula Independent.
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