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Board says budget demands thrift By James Dudlice. Some veteran educators at Crete- Monee Middle School aren’t happy with the way the district’s new middle school is shaping up. A handful of teachers expressed their extreme displeasure to the School Dis trict 2010 Board of Education this week about how the new building will be furnished when it opens this fall. District officials, however, say they’re doing the best they can with the money on hand. The teachers objected to using furni ture from the current middle school much of it many years old and run-down in the new building, the refurbished former Deer Creek School in University Park They also lamented the lack of com puters the new building may have, de pending on available cash, despite all its rooms being wired for Internet access. “What message are we sending, not only to the students, but to the commu nity?” teacher Janice Orr asked board members at a meeting Monday night. While realizing the cash poor district has to save money, Orr said it would be “taking a step back” by using rickety 30- year-old desks and not having adequate technology in a pristine new building. “If we don’t have the computers to hook up ... if we’re supposed to be state of the art ... state of the art is not achieved with deficient materials,” Orr said. Colleague Liz Miller has purchased new furniture for her classroom out of her own pocket. “I was quite upset with what I saw, with what was not done,” Miller said of her tour of the new middle school last week, “Are we really doing what’s best for the kids? I question that,” she said. “The school looks like it’s being ‘piecemealed’ together. That’s very disappointing.” Another teacher said her decades-old desk is so worn out it won’t even open without extreme effort. Yet another warned that a science classroom wouldn’t be large enough to See DESKS, Page A-4
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Thu, May 07, 1998
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