Rochester considers Additional High School

[buck naked]

ah...so your solution is to demolish Spaulding and build a new school that is twice the size. Spaulding was never intended for more than 1000 students. How is that saving $$$ for the taxpayers???

Also, the facility already exists that the school board is considering. Nothing has to be built.

[buck naked]

Remember all the school closings everwhere in the 80s & 90s as the schools were not needed any longer


I don't know of any school closings in NH because of the population declining. Croydon has a one room school house with 18 students.

[Brave Stranger]

Originally Posted by buck naked

Remember all the school closings everwhere in the 80s & 90s as the schools were not needed any longer


I don't know of any school closings in NH because of the population declining. Croydon has a one room school house with 18 students.

This is becoming silly. We have a different opinion on how to save the TAXPAYER costs. Rebuild the high school to make it larger, and keep costs down by running one building, not two. That plain enough for you to understand ?There were school closings all over NH in the larger cities. Many of those older schools were made into tax producing condos. What's a one room school house in the woods have to do with anything.

[buck naked]

There were school closings all over NH in the larger cities.

maybe you could provide insight...where? what schools? what cities? Inquiring minds want to know.

If buildings were too old to be updated, they were used for other projects. The School Administration building in Manchester comes to mind. If a school was retired, it was replaced with a newer, better building.

With the exception of Notre Dame College in Manchester, I can't think of any. I'm not talking about parochial schools which have closed everywhere due to lack of participation.

NH has not had a decrease in population.

Of course, we have different viewpoints. My perspective is that we need a bigger school, so why not take advantage of the proposal to use a vacant facility that already exists. It would have a different curriculum AND would entice possible drop outs to stay in school.

[Brave Stranger]

Originally Posted by buck naked

There were school closings all over NH in the larger cities.

maybe you could provide insight...where? what schools? what cities? Inquiring minds want to know.

If buildings were too old to be updated, they were used for other projects. The School Administration building in Manchester comes to mind. If a school was retired, it was replaced with a newer, better building.

With the exception of Notre Dame College in Manchester, I can't think of any. I'm not talking about parochial schools which have closed everywhere due to lack of participation.

NH has not had a decrease in population.

Of course, we have different viewpoints. My perspective is that we need a bigger school, so why not take advantage of the proposal to use a vacant facility that already exists. It would have a different curriculum AND would entice possible drop outs to stay in school.

Laconia has recycled two old schools. Nashua has done the same, so has Portsmouth, and on & on.

This is my opinion: I believe all these massive new schools & police stations & fire stations are ways to grow the NH union force by adding extra staff & costs to the city. By doing this they add extra votes as more family members become attached to these services. It becomes a mini-Massachusetts with more personal, more pension costs and such. It's not a model that NH has used in the past to keep costs down. This is a Massachusetts style model for growing government. It's done with a purpose. But hey....it's really all about the children, lol.