Meriden: with all due respect to former board of education members, the only reasons offered for the single high school are economic and the educational results are all bad. Anything which depends on the disposition of Mills Apartments, moreover, is guaranteed to be a chimera for years to come. Maybe that’s the idea?
State: the school bus issue over seat belts. One poor kid was killed tragically. Is there evidence that a seat belt would have saved his life? And then, the legislator piously stated, “If it comes down to saving one life, it’s worth it.” Rather than ask us all to fork out millions and millions to strap all the kids in the buses, we might do better to consider how we transport kids in the first place, who we ask to drive them, how much they are paid, and a series of related questions. The legislative comment is a merely emotional argument and un-provable.
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With all due respect, the reasons given for one high school were more than just economic. There are definite academic advantages too. For example the number of course offerings can be expanded. For years some Maloney and Platt students have been denied the opportunity to take certain language classes because the demand at one small high school was not sufficient. But with combined high schools many of these courses could be offered because there will be enough students to make the course offering feasible.
In addition, constructing one school will allow completion of the school sooner than the completion of two separate schools and will minimize the disruption of the education process which, under a two school scenario, would be disrupted over 6-7 years. With one school downtown there will be absolutely no disruption of the education process.
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