Eye on Danbury: Classrooms in Closets
Overcrowding has forced everyone in the schools to sacrifice.
Behind a heavy door marked Gym Supplies, gym teacher Jim Leary sits at his desk surrounded by bowling pins, copy paper, hula hoops and other necessary school materials.
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Danbury Residents may vote in a referendum to buy a building to that will ease overcrowding.
Is it necessary? Look at the photos and tell us what you think!
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Denise
2:56 pm on Thursday, September 29, 2011
Christine, thank you for bringing these issues into the public eye!~
g
10:09 pm on Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Danbury student population growth was known to be a problem many years ago. The Danbury district and a few others in Connecticut are the only growing districts and will be growing into the intermediate future. Other districts have declining student enrollment.
Absolutely no plan for student population growth has been implemented. The old Immanuel Lutheran school was bought to help with Head Start, instead after 6 years we are tearing it down. Rogers Park and and Ellsworth Elementary are on toxic soil, we put astro turf over it and declare the kids safe.
Ellsworth could have been larger and had a 2nd floor, our enlightened leadership and project 2020 (long after everyone on that committee will be retired and living in a warm red state) didn't prepare for 2010.
We closed Mill Ridge Intermediate, which was supposed to become a STEM middle school, poof, nothing happened. We lost capacity.
At every turn our board of ed and city leadership has failed to prepare for the problems we have today. There were MANY opportunities to avoid these problems, ALL were rejected by our political and professional leaders.