From the Office of the Comptroller of Maryland:
Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot and state and local elected officials will spend Friday in Harford County beginning with a tour of Prospect Mill Elementary School. The school, located in Bel Air and built in 1973, has requested $2.4 million in funding for open space classroom conversions and for upgrades to the HVAC and fire safety systems.
The Comptroller then will visit Beacon Environmental Services in Forest Hill. Beacon Environmental has been in operation in Maryland since 1999, and offers soil surveying and sampling to a wide-variety of clients throughout the world. Comptroller Franchot will speak with the business owners and tour their on-site laboratories.
none says
So now you decide that the classroom of the future was a big fail. Now you want the taxpayers to bail you out . How about close the school and sell off the assets and send the children to one of the other schools with in walking distance from this one.
mother of three says
Back in the 1970s, 1980s parents knew open space classrooms were a bad idea when they came along but Hey, what do parent’s know? The educators just humored us stupid souls and went right on building them because as California goes, there goes Maryland following right behind, just like our school curriculums. I had three children suffer through that open classroom environment. By the time the third one was in elementary school the teachers were trying to adapt their individual classrooms for more privacy and quiet for their students using bookcases and any kind of moveable storage units they could find to create partial walls. Now ONE school needs 2.4 million from us stupid taxpaying souls to convert their bad design. Multiply that by all the buildings built this way in our county. Those administrative educators, designers and architects are probably off enjoying their generous pensions now and we’re left to fix the problem they created.