Auburn school plan draws residents’ ire; board leaves school open for now
The Montgomery County School Board has tentatively decided to leave Auburn Middle School open, ending a more-than-five-hour meeting with an agreement to advertise a budget that cuts jobs to close a budget shortfall.
Mike Gangloff has more on this story.
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To say that “Blacksburg always gets what they want” ABSOLUTELY ABSURD!! If that were the case, then we would have had our high school fixed/replaced a long time ago and the students wouldn’t have been shifted all over creation!!!
Comment by Abbie Knobl — May 2, 2012 @ 5:26 pm
I have a question about this. The Superintendant says they need to close a school temporarily to help close the budget gap. The also recently spent $85,000 on a redistricting plan that determinined that two Blacksburg elementary schools, Kipps and the brand new Price’s Fork were both no where near capacity. Since those two schools are less than 1 mile from each other, and are both in the Blacksburg strand, why has there been no discussion of consolidating those two schools for the next two years. It could be done very simply and, rather than bussing students all the way from Riner to Christiansburg, they would have toride the bus less than a mile further to the neighboring school.
Comment by Chuck — May 2, 2012 @ 7:57 pm
Chuck,
They are considering closing Harding Elementary in the Bburg strand with those students being moved to Prices Fork. I think they are also considering closing a second elementary school to fill up Prices Fork. The Kipps school is full. The Auburn strand is not the only one that might have to make a few changes. The closing of AMS would be for two years, the closure of the elementary schools in bburg would be permanent.
Comment by Mutt — May 3, 2012 @ 4:48 pm
Well, if it would require the closure of ONE school to balance the budget, and they are already talking about closing two elementary schools in Blacksburg, why on earth would they even bring up closing AMS and transporting those kids to Christiansburg?
Comment by Chuck — May 3, 2012 @ 7:32 pm