Comments on: The most expensive high school ever http://blog.agdarosen.com/2008/05/28/the-most-expensive-high-school-ever/ Mindless drivel from one who should know Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:35:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Nattu Swiete http://blog.agdarosen.com/2008/05/28/the-most-expensive-high-school-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Nattu Swiete Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:55:56 +0000 http://blog.agdarosen.com/?p=126#comment-178 Seth Mnookin knows whereof he speaks, both in terms of where to find students engaged in illicit activities, and his apt comments about the new school and the residents of the town it serves. The "Taj Mahal" of high schools will be no such thing. Having recently spent time with a teacher and students from an extremely diverse (economically and all possible factors otherwise) suburb of NY, the new NNHS will be just about on a par with a reasonable facility serving as both a comprehensive high school and community performance and athletic center for a small city (which Newton is). I only hope that the flagrant design and construction mistakes that plague the building constructed in 1973 are not repeated in the new building that will open in... what was that year again? Seth Mnookin knows whereof he speaks, both in terms of where to find students engaged in illicit activities, and his apt comments about the new school and the residents of the town it serves.

The “Taj Mahal” of high schools will be no such thing. Having recently spent time with a teacher and students from an extremely diverse (economically and all possible factors otherwise) suburb of NY, the new NNHS will be just about on a par with a reasonable facility serving as both a comprehensive high school and community performance and athletic center for a small city (which Newton is). I only hope that the flagrant design and construction mistakes that plague the building constructed in 1973 are not repeated in the new building that will open in… what was that year again?

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