Meeting Elementary School Building Committee
At last nights meeting of the Templeton elementary school building committee, there were some more concept drawings shown of the site and how the building will be situated as well as discussion on some past meetings and a schedule of future meetings. Today is a scheduled department head meeting at Town hall on the school site. I believe there may be a joint meeting of selectmen and of the committee on August 24, 2015, the next scheduled BOS meeting according to Town web site. There are some joint scheduled joint meetings, informational meetings and some open house days of the various schools. One that struck me funny or odd to be included in a meeting of a Templeton elementary school building committee was a September 15, 2015 open house of Phillipston school. If this is indeed a Town of Templeton project and it will be a school paid for by Templeton taxpayers for Templeton resident children then why even have a mention of a Phillipston open house?
Those are the types of things that demand people to attend these meetings and I found it sad that i was the only resident in attendance who is not on the committee at the meeting last night. Hopefully the selectmen will be capable of setting a firm agenda early enough before the next meeting so residents do not have to sit at a computer 24/7 to try and keep up with what will be presented.
Jeff Bennett
In my opinion the more I learn about compulsory education the less likely I am to want to go into debt to support this concept. Perhaps it would make sense to support our neighborhood schools by bringing them back into code as we can afford it. Remember to check out the excellent book by John Taylor Gatto; The Underground History of American Education that can be read for free at Templeton Times.
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ReplyDeleteMaybe people are waiting for a final decision to be made on what is actually going to be presented for them to voted on. Then hopefully, the public will come. I am worried about the size of the lot, because it is so small. Think about the new CVS in Gardner. The parking is awful, especially when they are busy. The store should have been larger, as there is no room in the aisles, and the shelves are stuffed because there is simply no room for half the merchandise they want to sell. You could say someone screwed up, for not seeing the big picture. Once this school building is finally built, we are stuck with it. No room to expand, for the future, and the price will not go down, even though it has many short comings from the very start. Time will tell what the outcome will be. It is up to the people of this town to decide.
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