Akron OKs plan for East, middle school

[hubman]

Excellent summation Ejay!!

[OH WELL]

I new that city would go to chit if i moved!! I think I will move back and make everything the way it was 30 years ago!! Vote for me !!

[Spirit of East]

Michael Hayes wrote:

The recently purchased properties are where the new middle school wing will be built; they are NOT for parking. Parking will be moved to the front of the existing building on the Brittain Rd. side.
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Bummer about taking out the front yard for parking. East in its day looked pretty good, the grounds were always well kept, and the windows shined in the sun.

In Luther Smith's memory, on the dedication day of East High III, I hope the student body makes the legendary walk from The Shore's of Blue Pond (original East, now Goodyear Middle) across Palmer Field and up the back streets to the new buildings. From what I have been told, this is how the students moved into the "new" East back in the 50's.

[Cloverine Fleetwood]

EJay wrote:

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East High (the original building, now Goodyear MS)was indeed the first Akron high school with a swimming pool. I understand it was shut down in around 1980 when the ceiling collapsed. Supposedly, there was a gym class that had been scheduled to arrive only minutes after it happened. Fortunately, no tragedy took place on that day. However, the BoE decided the cost of renovating the aging pool was too high, so it was never reopened. Only Firestone High School now has a swimming pool.

At one point, before the CLC-renovation/reconstruction project began, there was talk of building "combined pools" between East and Ellet, Garfield and Kenmore, and North and what used to be Central-Hower. Buchtel would have shared Firestone's pool. The Ohio State Facilities Commision however pretty much axed that ambition due to the cost. The only way you might see it now is if APS and the City of Akron comes up with a deal of some sort with the YMCA for the six Akron high schools without swimming pools to use the YMCA's.

Doesn't Lincoln Elementary School have a pool?

[Dawn]

Why do people who live in Cleveland and other cities have a comment.

[Cloverine Fleetwood]

Dawn wrote:

Why do people who live in Cleveland and other cities have a comment.

Several reasons come to mind:

1. Interest in the topic presented.

2. Part of the money for school construction in Akron is comng out of every pocket in Ohio.

3. Sometimes (at least this happens in my case), the place listed on the posting is not where a perswon lives and is not even where a peron is writing.

[RU Kiddingme]

Dawn wrote:

Why do people who live in Cleveland and other cities have a comment.

because they work in Cleveland because there are no jobs in Akron

[Buckeye Gal]

That is still much cheaper than building two new schools.

[San Antone Bill]

Tired of mediocrity wrote:

What ever decisions are made about the plans, the taxpayers, and all residents need to demand that all this work is performed by skilled, unionized labor to ensure that the workmanship on these projects is worth what we are paying.

I really don't track your coorelation between unions and quality. It certainly hasn't worked with UAW and the product they put out or has it?

I agree that skilled labor should be used but you can get quality in a right to work enviroment. Supervision and management should be the torche bearer of quality. If you leave it to the union you'll get a who's on first scenerio.

Besides with the lower wages you'll get more bang for your buck instead of delays and cost over runs. The union won't be able to save non=productive employees any more. It will be produce or move on.