Monday, January 25, 2010
Week of Jan. 24, 2010
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If Bellevue were another Antioch, this would be a no
ReplyDeletebrainer...however, that never happened. I lived in Bellevue for
years. It has grown, yes but not to the extent people thought it
would. Like Hillwood, countless families flee MNPS after Harpeth
Valley or even before for school. With Ensworth right there,
St Henry's, MBA and St Cecelia not far down the road these will be
pattern hard to break.
In addition, we as a city are absolutely broke. There is no money for
the remodeling of the mall for a school when Kirkpatrick needs a roof,
Hume Fogg needs a major overhaul not to mention its own gym for heaven
sakes. Who knows what other schools need major capital expenditures.
The property taxes being discussed are pie in the sky. The west
nashville area plan calls for Hillwood if abandoned to be a park. The
contract with the city calls for it to revert to the hill family who
will develop it. However, not enough million plus dollar houses can be
built and sold in such a timely manner to pay for the renovation in
the same fiscal year...Nashville does not need to be spending its
money on another school now when it has a $35MM budget shortfall for
the schools in the upcoming year, just bit off way more than it can
chew on the convention center, needs to do the capital renovations
that keep getting delayed year after year on its existing
schools...nope...this is a shot across the bow to the group that
bought the mall are you going to do something or not..if so when?
It is sad Hillwood abandoned the high school decades ago but Nashville
needs to focus its precious dollars (it does not have) or current
issues...this will be interesting to watch...
This is exactly where the rubber meets the road--is Bellevue as a community willing to step up and make this highschool happen in spite of Metro's financial troubles, etc.? No one can force us to not have a highschool if we truly want it. Local community desire, support (fiscal and otherwise), and commitment are the real foundations of the school system in the U.S.--we can't continue to hand the job off to comparatively detached (and other-issue distracted) organizations. Those organizations can facilitate, but not create. Excellent comments, E.K.
ReplyDelete--Emily