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Published August 01, 2009 02:44 pm - Officials with the Metcalfe County School System say four of the district’s five schools need to be replaced because they are old and in poor condition.


Not everyone excited about possible changes


By GINA KINSLOW
Glasgow Daily Times

EDMONTON

Officials with the Metcalfe County School System say four of the district’s five schools need to be replaced because they are old and in poor condition.

Plans call for building a new middle school and replacing the three existing elementary schools — North Metcalfe, Edmonton and Summer Shade — with two new elementary schools for students in preschool through the fifth grade.

All four schools have problems, including odor in the bathrooms, asbestos glue holding down tile, bad plumbing and poor handicap accessibility.

And while many members of the community are aware of the problems at the schools, they’re not ready to say goodbye to their schools.

Betty Dixon teaches preschool at North Metcalfe Elementary. Dixon is aware of the school’s physical problems.

“I know it needs updating a lot,” she said.

Still she fears if the board of education decides to build a new elementary school closer to Edmonton the children will have to get up earlier and stay on the bus longer to get to school.

“I know when my kids started riding the bus to the middle school at Greensburg, they didn’t even get to eat breakfast because their bus got there so late,” she said. “It wasn’t my children’s fault that their bus got them there past their breakfast time. I just hate to see children on the bus an extra 30 to 40 minutes.”

Dixon also likes the atmosphere at North Metcalfe.

“I just love it. It’s so family oriented here. Everybody pulls together and helps if there is a child in need or a family or whatever,” she said. 

Not everyone associated with the school thinks it needs to be replaced.

“The school building is in good shape,” said Lisa Perry, whose children attended the school but will begin classes at the middle school this year. Perry added she has no complaints about the school. “I would hate to see it leave down here, which is what is probably going to happen.”

Kelli Brown’s children attend Summer Shade and she is aware that the school is old.

“It just needs to be updated,” she said.

Brown is not opposed to a new school being built.



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