So i've only lived in Moore for a little under a year now, so I'm learning still.
This post is partially a history lesson question for myself, and part "why haven't we".
I went to Central Jr High yesterday for a tour for my incoming kids. I'm glad to see they looked at securing the doors of the building, but it's a farce. The school has a lot of times where the kids walk outside between buildings and then even across the central elem campus to get to the new gym. And they congregate outside in the front parking lot during lunch. Now, I did the same thing at my Jr high back in MWC in the 90s, but that was a time when you propped the hall doors open to let the air in (and stray dogs). So i'm curious why some effort hasn't been put in to connect the buildings here with some hallways to keep the kids inside. In what I saw, it would really only take a few halls to do it. To be honest, the more we walked around, the more i thought, "why has moore schools ignored this campus? Peeling paint on the exterior of the building, cable masses dangling between buildings, etc.
So my guess is that the whole area was the original Moore Elem/Jr/High from the 40's or whatever? Admin building too? I went through the same thing with my Jr High (Jarman) in MWC, which was the old high school from the 40s. it was always the last school to be thought of for any modernization and eventually was closed and eventually abandoned since they haven't sold the land yet. I dont want Central to be the same and its not as though there is going to be a lack of students (which is what prompted Jarman's closing). Just in my small area of Moore alone, there are hundreds of homes (including mine) being built or neighborhoods just getting started. Unless we get migrated over to Highland East and overload that campus, then Central has staying power. But it needs some love....some major love.
So my question is really back to, why hasn't the district worked on this in bond issues? I constantly see major work being done at the high schools (for some reason Moore high just had its front awning ripped off and is getting something new there) and all the jr highs (including Central) had major gym work done. The new central gym is really nice, but as i said, its several blocks (and 2 streets) away even on the other side of central Elem. The gym teacher has to walk over to the front of Central jr high to pick up the kids between classes.
I just see a lot of vulnerabilities in this campus layout. Something that we probably woudln't have ever been concerned about in the past, but we just can't really ignore these days.
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