The Passing of a Friend

The Passing of a Friend
It is official now the Henry County Board of Education voted 4-1 to do what they call re-purpose a school.  McDonough Elementary will now go to the pages of history as the school will become Patrick Henry Academy from Stockbridge.  The superintendent of schools felt it would be cheaper to move the school than to update the current one and put the elementary students in three other schools.

By moving the Patrick Henry school those students who have problems with school anyway many will drop out.  The parents who have to take them to school in Stockbridge will have to back track in the mornings trying to get to work.   And those students who once could walk to McDonough Elementary will have to be bussed to those other schools.  All because of money. McDonough will be losing another part of their history with the closing of this school.

And what will become of the Old Stockbridge High School that is Patrick Henry currently?  No one will answer that question.  Hopefully, there isn’t some under the table deal to let it go to some private group.  If they want to really make a difference, use the school as a satellite campus for one of the larger Universities in the area. That would make sense to give people who must work a chance to go to evening classes to further their education.

But in all that has gone on about this, no one really listened to the parents and alumni of the McDonough Elementary School.  No real thought was put into how they felt.  But that is where elections play a key role in the future.  Find candidates that will truly listen to the public to run against those who don’t.  Time will tell.

McDonough Elementary Alumni


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