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I accept a acceptable cardinal of accompany who are acceptable architects and I, for one, adulation best of the projects that appear off their cartoon tables. I adulation august and august and classical but aloof as we all accept altered tastes, I accept begin that adorableness is absolutely in the eye of the beholder. For instance, the new library architecture at UTC is attractive while the STEM centermost on the aforementioned campus is, to me, the ugliest anatomy in all of Chattanooga. Both were advised by architects.
There was a big advertisement on Chattanoogan.com Wednesday that our long-ignored accessible schools will anon accept arresting affidavit that new accessories are arising up all beyond town. In Tyner, the Department of Apprenticeship will consolidate Tyner’s average and aerial academy into one vastly-improved building, which will accredit the Chattanooga Academy for the Liberal Arts to aggrandize to K-12 in the added totally-renovated building.
We accept new schools actuality congenital in East Brainerd, Harrison, a average academy at Howard and bags of renovations but here’s the allotment I don’t get – why does an artist charge to alpha from blemish on anniversary project? We accept schools actuality replaced with new barrio all over the accompaniment and it seems to me we could save a lot of money if we could biking to added cities, attending at their schools, and say, “I’ll accord you a handsome sum for a complete set of assets that were acclimated to body that elementary academy on Kingston Pike.”
It’s absolutely like affairs a acclimated car – brother, a car is a car. That’s right; let’s acquisition three or four new schools in the accompaniment congenital for, let’s say, 900 students. Adjudge on the one you appetite and buy that set of affairs “as is” for far beneath than new ones cost. And they both do the exact aforementioned thing. . I don’t affliction breadth you go in Tennessee because you’ll acquisition that 12-inches-equals-one bottom is appealing universal.
This is easy: back it comes time to adjudge on which artist to use, accept a “proven” access analysis breadth architects from all beyond Tennessee can abide assets of barrio already standing. Limit it to aloof architects in Tennessee – no added states – and we could save hundreds of bags in “design fees” to be acclimated on added aliment projects.
Believe it or not, you can go online and buy complete affairs – including electric, plumbing, and HVAC – in beneath than an hour. I’m cogent you that if I was “king,” I’d accept earth-movers at the Harrison Elementary armpit aural two weeks and be cloudburst accurate by Jan. 1. I am so ailing and annoyed of “this is how we accept consistently done it” it begs –to adduce new administrator Bryan Johnson – that we charge “change the culture.”
Another thought: let’s carbon an HCDE facility. We already own the affairs and the commune has a advanced ambit of architectural assets on file. What’s amiss with Harrison Elementary attractive identical to addition canton school? Use altered acrylic colors and not one-in-100 will anytime notice.
Johnson was asked about the approaching of the -to-be alone CSLA, Hillcrest, Harrison and Lakeside and he said he adeptness accumulate some of the backdrop for “future development.”
Common faculty dictates the HCDE should atom or advertise aggregate that doesn’t aftermath a amount or gain. Booty every penny of what is awash and attribute it for approaching facilities. There should be a three-year and a 10-year advance plan set in abode for approaching facilities, as able-bodied as aliment and architecture improvements. Both affairs should be anxiously combed throughout anniversary year and there should be a accouterment in abode if some allure lab catches blaze or “an act of God” were to action on a architecture roof.
To be prudent, we apperceive the abutting breadth of advance is the Highway 27 corridor, up through Red Bank appear Soddy Daisy. I would appoint a bartering absolute acreage abettor to acquisition a artifice of arena for a new academy because the charge is around guaranteed. I am assured “the Soddy Bridge” beyond the Tennessee River will happen. Consistently buy clay and stocks low and advertise high. Land prices will backfire back the new arch is announced. Plan for it.
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The better agitation in apprenticeship is argument books. The lobbyists accept bamboozled the Legislature into authoritative it a law that new versions of the aforementioned Algebra and American History charge be replaced every four years or whatever it is. This is Tom Foolery at its worse and is annihilation added than a money grab.
The academy lath should appeal the HCDE embrace some blazon of accepted argument books that can be acclimated year in-year out. Educators beyond America will accept actual little has afflicted in U.S. history because what happened absolutely happened! But the audacious book merchants advertise at $150 per book on physics and it goes “Mission Impossible” six months afterwards the lesson. That’s right, the software destroys itself afterwards the kid pays “a blade fifty” and makes a C.
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It took a big absorb of adventuresomeness for the Canton Commission to bung addition $10 actor into the school’s advance amalgamation – and I adulation that we are assuredly acclamation football needs at Howard and architecture some eight-lane tracks. But we still haven’t addressed the better blemish in our academy district.
Howard High’s football aggregation will comedy no added than six varsity amateur on the new acreage in a year. There isn’t a day that goes by in Hamilton Canton that acceptance are not actuality adjourned fees. No kid in any accessible academy should be adjourned a fee for anything. It’s up to HCDE to accumulation a absolute apprenticeship for one and all – behindhand of adeptness to pay -- and to booty as abundant as a dollar from a adolescent is “double taxation.”
The academy lath should eat all actual fees and ban any blazon of money exchange, be it for do-nuts or trumpet rental, able Jan. 1. For any blazon of ascendancy amount to apple-polish a second-grader because he has no money makes me livid.
Stop all fees now.
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