The Skokie drama was really based on nostalgia and not at all realistic. I understand that alumni don't like to see their schools disappear; my elementary school is gone, my jr. high was renamed, my first HS is gone and even my college building was razed and rebuilt. There was simply no way to retrofit a nearly 100 year-old building. I thought D69 did a good job of explaining why they needed to do what they did. East Prairie D73 had to go through the same thing and now has a state-of-the-art K-8 school that was finished in 2019.
Funny since the rationale for the “Fifth Ward” school was also entirely based on nostalgia!
There was never any data presented indicating that bussing is a factor in poor educational outcomes and it certainly isn’t justified based on enrollment trends or budget projections.
Unfortunately in Evanston the nostalgics run the school board!
There's a quote from GK Chesterton that I think of often
“Now in history there is no Revolution that is not a Restoration. Among the many things that leave me doubtful about the modern habit of fixing eyes on the future, none is stronger than this: that all the men in history who have really done anything with the future have had their eyes fixed upon the past.”
The Skokie drama was really based on nostalgia and not at all realistic. I understand that alumni don't like to see their schools disappear; my elementary school is gone, my jr. high was renamed, my first HS is gone and even my college building was razed and rebuilt. There was simply no way to retrofit a nearly 100 year-old building. I thought D69 did a good job of explaining why they needed to do what they did. East Prairie D73 had to go through the same thing and now has a state-of-the-art K-8 school that was finished in 2019.
Funny since the rationale for the “Fifth Ward” school was also entirely based on nostalgia!
There was never any data presented indicating that bussing is a factor in poor educational outcomes and it certainly isn’t justified based on enrollment trends or budget projections.
Unfortunately in Evanston the nostalgics run the school board!
There's a quote from GK Chesterton that I think of often
“Now in history there is no Revolution that is not a Restoration. Among the many things that leave me doubtful about the modern habit of fixing eyes on the future, none is stronger than this: that all the men in history who have really done anything with the future have had their eyes fixed upon the past.”