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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Renovations are done in a queue.

Lewis will get their turn when they move up in the queue.

If it makes you feel any better, those of us with kids at WSHS before, during and after construction can vouch that Lewis was a veritable palace compared to WSHS before WSHS was renovated.  WSHS was a slum.  Holes in walls, faulty wiring, structural issues like walls separating from floors, dated dirty facilities.

Resenting WSHS families for finally having a nice school, especially for those families who sent kids there during the 4 years of active construction, just sounds awfully petty.  Eventually Lewis will make its way up the queue, and will have a nice school too.  The only difference might be that WSHS had the good fortune to get its renovation during the 2016- 2020 era of almost no inflation, inexpensive materials, and low interest.  Renovating post 2020 is very expensive, with far less bang for your buck.[/quote]

Former Lewis teacher here: Lewis hasn’t been renovated since the year started with a “1” and is not currently in the listed queue. The plumbing doesn’t work correctly, the HVAC is sketchy at best (despite a major replacement over the summer), the roof leaks, there’s major building settling and there are cockroaches everywhere.

When central office folks come to the school, they always seem surprised how bad the building is. But then they also seem shocked that the school doesn’t have all the fancy furniture and tech that Gatehouse & Willow Oaks has.[/quote]

Why hasn't it made the renovation list with all those issues?

As a former teacher there, would you send your kids there? [/quote]

A different former teacher and I would not.  It has nothing to do with renovations.  It’s because I can vividly remember my students who I know have died or the ones who became teen parents when I taught them.   That’s why I would not send my children there. [/quote]

I went looking on Google, as I figured a death of a local teenager would've made news, but I couldn't find any reference to the deaths you're talking about. I continually hear people talk about "gangs, drugs, violence, teen pregnancies, etc." but I can't find reports. It starts to feel like playing into stereotypes of low-income people, that they're all just a bunch of violent immigrant gangsters.

As someone who is a Lewis parent right now, I'm not seeing any of that with the school. [/quote]

Really, you thought you could google search a child's death and find public information? I teach at a different school and we've had several high school students die over my time here, but the only ones you could find would be if you knew their names.  You aren't going to find "xxx high school death", you'll find "larla jones's obituary" where it will just say she "died suddenly" on October 1. Nowhere will it say it was a drug OD.[/quote]

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