The two schools were Franklin and Lowell.
Lowell is a A.J. Gibson designed school. Gibson was a famous Missoula and regional architect in the early 1900's. This school was gutted and an addition on the playground was added which is connected to the back.
Franklin School was demolished, unfortunately, in the opinion of missoulaschoolwatchdog.
The bond could be named "destroy Missoula's school history" bond.
The entire school building of Franklin, which included a pretty much brand new addition built in 2009 or so costing half a million dollars(!) was demolished. Oh, they kept the gym, according to someone I talked to because it would have been too expensive to replace - how nice MCPS left one small portion of the Franklin School history.
To get back to the open house which is from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. tonight. Some thoughts - the school district did not let the wider Missoula population know about this open house. It appears the district let families in the Lowell area know earlier. And isn't 4:00 a little early for every day workers? Why not have it at 7:00 to 9:00?
Another point. The paper states: "These open houses are sign not just as back-to-school nights(again this is not at night-msw) for those families and students, but for the community to be welcomed and experience what they paid for," Missoula County Public Schools Communication Director Hatton Littman said."
My take from the above statement: If they really wanted to welcome the community why did the district give little notice for this event? And why is it being held from 4:00 to 6:00. All of Missoula property owners paid for this bond - why not really invite the entire city at an appropriate time and with ample notice?
Missoulaschoolswatchdog smells a rat here. Additionally, will the changes to Lowell be a perfect combination of the new and the old as the principal of Lowell said to me before the project? Or will too much of the school have been destroyed forever? msw will let you know what I think after the visit tonight.
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