MORRISVILLE SCHOOLSThird-graders to move to Morrisville High School next school year
Posted: Thursday, June 28, 2012 6:00 pm | Updated: 8:32 pm, Thu Jun 28, 2012.
Posted on June 28, 2012
The Morrisville administration is preparing to accommodate 79 third-graders at the high school building next school year.
Such a setup is expected to last at least two years, Superintendent Bill Ferrara said Thursday. In the meantime, district officials will work on a more permanent plan.
School board members indirectly approved the move at Wednesday’s meeting when they voted to release “bids for the third-grade modifications to the Morrisville High School as a non-reimbursable (planning and construction) project.”
The administration is working to get partitioned doors installed in the hallways -- a $50,000 project to keep the older students separated from the younger kids. The older students include the fourth- and fifth-graders who moved into the high school building after the 2008 furnace explosion that left M.R. Reiter Elementary unusable.
A layout plan for the school wasn't released because of safety reasons, officials said. However, parents will be given a tour of the building once the doors are installed, which is expected to be completed in August, Ferrara said.
Four modular classrooms were initially erected at Grandview Elementary School to host the pre-kindergarten through third-grader students who had moved out of Reiter. But in March, the board opted to not renew the yearly contract for the modular classrooms as a way to save money. The modulars were removed earlier this week.
Moving the third-graders makes room at Grandview for the grades previously housed in the modulars.
The district has other closed buildings available, but getting them up to code and updating technology would have been more costly, Ferrara said.
The board on Wednesday agreed to get appraisals of those district-owned buildings.
10 comments:
Absolutely comical...
Which part - where Ferrara says the doors will be completed in August?
"You expect it from a lot of politicians. But you hope that your School Administrators and School Board Members aren't politicians in the classic bad sense."
In a nutshell...Morrisville will suffer b/c of this statement. Super thinks he is both the principal and the congressman.
I was at the entire meeting last night and I don't recall the $50,000 cost being mentioned at all. The August completion date either. Last week, it was late-September or early-October (not ready in time for school). Last night, there was talk of Profy sending a letter to the Sec. of Ed., to attempt to accelerate the schedule, but I thought it was still up in the air.
I don't recall mention of a layout plan not being released for safety reasons either. Or the set-up lasting at least 2 years.
Did anyone hear any of this?
Why don't we skip the public meetings, and have Super. Ferrara meet privately with the newspaper, and then we can just read about it the next morning?
At the 6/20 Agenda Meeting, Marlys Mihok remarked how people “took her head off” about moving 4th and 5th graders to the High School, and now 3rd graders are coming tho the High School. Well, Marlys, here’s the thing.
A. Noboby took your head off. It’s still there.
B. You and some of your political allies made statements like the ones below for many years. Another guy named Ed Bailey (Remember him? He was caught red-handed stealing Morrisville Matters campaign fliers from peoples’ houses last fall) referred to students at the High School as “scum”. Sharon Hughes, who is quoted below, also referred to students as “perverts”.
C. You and your uber-majority board did a subpar job apprising the public, including parents, about the situation.
D. You and you uber-majority board did not, repeat did not, do the physical partitioning that you promised when you brought the 4th and 5th graders to the building.
E. So, you see, I believe that any flak you caught was richly deserved for your hypocrisy, lack of transparency, and broken promises.
"I will never, never, ever be responsible for any child because I am a school board member."
Marlys Mihok
email Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 9:27 a.m.
“It spells disaster,” (having young schoolchildren walking and teenage students driving to the same school)
Stephen Worob
August 22, 2007 Bucks County Courier Times
Jack Buckman
...K-12 campus is unsafe for younger students. You should be thinking of using current structures and maybe tearing down some of high school.
June 21, 2006 board meeting:
Sharon Hughes
...It is not a good idea to build a school where we have gang members in the same building with children.
September 27, 2006 board meeting:
Sharon Hughes, 121 Mercer
Can not keep different age children apart in one building.
May 23, 2007 board meeting:
Sharon Hughes
The voters voted against the new school. We don’t want little children in a building with old children. It’s not safe; they are intimidating.
Maybe we can get Sharon to stop by at the next board meeting and stir up all her complaints again.
Oh, right. It's her peeps who are stacking the kids in the corridors, so she's quiet now.
Hypocrisy--ain't it sweet
I give Sharon Hughes credit for subsequently apologizing about the "perverts" remark.
i give her credit for ceasing her shilling for those peeps
12/3/07
Sharon Hughes
Congratulations to the school board. They now represent 82% of the people of Morrisville. Quickly they will represent 100% of the people of Morrisville.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNhh0IjcroA
"i give her credit for ceasing her shilling for those peeps"
I give Sharon Hughes no credit for this. She is only keeping quiet because she wants something from the very people she has badmouthed for years. She assumes they are the same as the people she calls friends. What she should realize is that if something is what's best for Morrisville Borough and it's future, it will have support, even if her name is attached to it.
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