They came up with a plan that included an addition and a change in the traffic pattern around the school. But the board disregarded that idea in favor of its own Comprehensive Educational Facilities Plan. Board President Michael Yura said the school system would need to add an elevator to the building to make it ADA compliant. There were also space concerns. Yura said the board thought it was ideal when land became available for the new Cass Elementary to go up beside the centralized athletic complex on Chaplin Hill Road.
Parents are also upset about becoming a feeder school for the new Western middle and high schools.
Cass students now go on to Westwood Middle and then University High. I was told Morgantown High was better because it was bigger and offered more classes and kids came out of MHS more ready for college. And now they want to send my kids to a smaller school where the class variety won't be there. They're pushing him backward. But Yura contends that won't be the case.