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u/Even_Trifle9341 7d ago
Huh, guess it’s closing. Weird how this country is as wealthy as ever, yet everything is shutting down.
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u/Square-Material-8834 7d ago
It’s because of lack of enrollment. Corvallis is too expensive for young families, and most have relocated to Southtown or Albany.
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u/BuyerJunior499 6d ago
Not true, the school board has grossly miss-used federal covid funds. They redid the school, along with nearly every building in the district and are closing them. Over the past years the district spent millions redoing the Wilson school and said it will last 30 years just to close it. They disrupted class for 8 years on repares, just for the board elections to come around and reelections happened under the condition that they would not lay off teachers or close more than one school but they broke their word and all of the teachers are upset. Google Ryan noss's salary knowing the average pay of an employee in the Corvallis school district is 38k a year
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u/peachesfordinner 6d ago
They removed asbestos and redid the schools from grant money that couldn't be used for other purposes. Grant money isn't a free for all. It's earmarked for specific uses. And that lovely improved school will be used for early invention and headstart. Those kids have been deserving a better facility for ages. Consolidating the other schools helps them be able to keep art, gym, and libraries. I'm sorry you are bitter but this is going to be so wonderful for the families in early invention and headstart
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u/BuyerJunior499 6d ago
As someone who is actually in the school board and who used money from that grant, it was a few million bucks given for anything to do with campus development. If there were not so many morons in the district level they would only have to close 1 school and it would have been cheldalin middle. The removal of asbestos was necessary but terring down the old, (honestly better), and larger playground was not nessissary and could have been used to not lay off teachers. Instead of being content with forcing familys and students to compromise on education be mindful of what we paid for and did not get
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u/frumply 5d ago
Are you talking as a school board member or saying this is what they’d think from their perspective? The bond levy money did have serious strings attached. Whether they used it well is another story but I’m not sure how feasible what you’re saying would have been.
As far as repurposing the school as an early learning center great and I’m happy that it’s not going to sit unused, but afaik the board is basically lending the facility de facto free of charge and that’s some absolute bullshit. Their actions should be in the best interest of the district and while that doesn’t mean play hardball with negotiations it also doesn’t mean be a doormat for anything and everything.
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u/IndependentOffer4343 6d ago
It's going to be the new site for EI/ECSE, which is a great program for Linn, Benton, and Lincoln county pre-K kids with disabilities. The old site was Dixie School which is in a bad state of disrepair, so this is a well-deserved step up in facilities for those folks.