Thursday, September 1, 2016

Is Miller Creek the only area of Cold Springs "roots"? What about the 39th Street and the South Hills area?

Growing up in Missoula I attended 5 schools, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Paxson, Cold Springs, and Meadow Hill. I attended Cold Springs School in 4th and 5th grade. Our family lived on Virginia Drive off 39th Street. This was in the early 60's. The children at Cold Springs at that time came from the neighborhood around Cold Springs, as in my case, in addition to the Miller Creek area. To say that Cold Springs will return to its roots by relocating to Miller Creek is not totally true. For decades the children in the South Hills area and the 39th Street area attended Cold Springs. What about the children who live in these areas? Are they not important to MCPS? Do they deserve to have their school closed and then have to be bused for miles up Miller Creek? Absolutely not! What needs to happen is for there to be a moratorium on this whole idea of a school up Miller Creek. Obviously MCPS got caught in another facility disaster of their own making. Many Missoulians would be interested to know that when the subdivision was beginning to be built in the Maloney Ranch area the developers wrote a letter to former superintendent Clark and offered the school district 5 acres for a school free of charge. Neither Clark nor another MCPS official took up the offer. And now we are all suffering due to Clark's mismanagement of our school facilities (not only for this fiasco but many others).

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