Should Stafford High be renovated or replaced?

I am surprised to see that the BOS in Stafford thinks they have soooo much money to spend on the schools. Just because a building is older doesn’t mean it should be torn down or completely replaced. When I went to Stafford schools, I attended the oldest schools in the county one of which had no A/C or central heating. That doesn’t mean that my education was any less than someone that went to a newer school. It just meant that teachers actually had to teach. Southern Stafford has needed an additional high school for years and it should be built. If SHS and Drew are inadequate as regular school facilities, then repurpose them as community centers or use for special schools or ccommunity outreach programs. To tear them down completely is ridiculous as they are indeed vital assets within their own respective communities. Once again the BOS is thinking with their own personal wallets and not their brains. By the way, I am a SHS Class of 1984 alumni.

If citizens make this a high enough priority then it can be made to happen. None of this was meant to be a replacement or demolition for SHS. It was originaly a repurposing. Our 5 high schools are at or over capacity. HS#6 would alleviate that overcrowding. Repurposing SHS to a much needed CTE center made sense if it had been done as originally planned. Why hasn’t anyone considered the new HS site as a campus for a combined HS#6 and CTE facility that share adequately sized large common resource areas (library, technology, cafeteria, auditorium, athletics). The CIP and the budget and finance advisory committees have recommended this to the SB several times. Time to think outside the box.