Superintendent Dixon has ignored state recommendations for a 50-55 acre site for a high school in preference to a postage stamp plot with only 11 usable acres. He and his Board continue to ignore the pleas of parents whose children will attend this joke of a school and neighbors who can see how awful and dangerous their future will be unless a future Board goes back to eminent domain to clear away their houses. The Board has confused stubbornness with decisiveness, ignorance with vision and our City Council’s grim acquiescence with approval.
If a child is injured at this pathetic Ordean site the blame will rest on the shoulders of City Council just as heavily as it rests on the School Board.
Kent Worley, recently of Duluth and one of the Area’s top Landscape Architects – think I-35 Expansion – condemns the Ordean site as unsafe in today’s Trib. Just one more black mark against the Red Plan.
Kent’s conclusion:
It is clear the time is now to recognize and solve critical student-safety issues and to admit they cannot be resolved at the Ordean site. Together, we can find ways to accomplish common goals either by using the existing Central High School site or by establishing a holding position at Ordean to permit everyone time to seek a safe eastern high school.
Responsibility for student safety rests ultimately with Independent School District 709 and its school board members. Risking student injury or fatalities is not acceptable.
