Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1961-11-02

Inc alternate plan prOpOS-
ed by william Scheele was
considered more than once
and turned down by the Char
don School Board after care
full study indicated his tenn
porary stop gap measures
would cost just as much over
the next ten years as the
Boards integrated plan. The
entire b ard of education
(Dond Williams, President;
Richard Woollams, Vice Pre-
Sident; Mrs. Helen Macdon-
aid, Mrs. Shirley Werner and
DR.. Alan Cragg) have met
with Ira Garfield, local sup
erintendent, and all agree to
and support t h e following
statements.
mo matter what plan is
followed, space must be made
available for an additional l,
900 children by 1870. To meet
the projected enrolment for
1870, a total of 40 additional
rooms { at 25 pupils per room
will be needed. Mr.. Scheele'S
plan will take the same num-
ber of bond issues and dollars
no matter how you cut the
pie. The longer we delay a
permanent building program,
the more it will cost the tax
payers. The delaying tactics
used by Scheele, if success
full, will add approximately 10
percent the first year to the
cost of the proposed building,
because Of rising building
costs.
"The problem of croding is
here today. We need to pro-
vide for at least an additional
100 students in the high school
next September. We will need
four or more additional calsS-
rooms which will have to be
provided in temporary quart
erS until additional rooms are
built. This condition will get
worse every year if we do not
start our building program
now.
"In the opinion of the Kent
State University Survey team
of five educational experts, a
concentration of rooms in a
new junior high plant would
be preferable to a shotgun
approach building program
advocated by Scheele. This
committee was charged on
September 80, 1860, with,
three initial problems having
to do with our building pro-
gram, with special attention
given to the Junior high prob
lem. Mr.. Scheele was then a
member of the board.
Board members also veto
ed the remodeling plan be-
cause the State Department
Education does not approve
the Park Avenue site and can
not be expected to accredit a
junior high built there.
IF the Park buildings were
pressed into use a year from
September, the rooms in the
three uptown buildings would
be Overcrowded with the pre-
sent student enrolment in ell
ementary and junior h G h
classes who will then be en-
rolled in the junior high
school. All grades, from now
on, will have more than 200
students each.
Expansion at the 88 acre
site picked for the board-pro-
posed building will provide
space for future additions
when necessary. Accredita-
ton can be expected upon
completion Of the base pro-
ject.
Both State Department of
Education and County School
superintendent Frank R. Sch
ofield have endorsed the
boards plan.
THE Kent Survey Team
definitely stated that rooms
in both the Park elementary
building and the present jun
ior high are obsolete or mad
equate for an acceptable jun
ior high program.
THE Scheele plan has nev-
er presented any professional
educators endorsement.
by putting available
money in a new building, we
will ave more efficient
teaching facilities rather than
make shift, sub standard
rooms in a 50-year old build
ing and one designed specif-
ically for elementary classes.
We feel an efficient class
room Setup will encourage
the excellent teachers now on
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