South Tama County Middle School -- File photo

So you all recently received the flyer in your mail about the Middle School going to become another abandoned building, provided the vote passes; because students can’t learn as well in a 106-year-old building that recently had over $1 million in repairs and updates. That even though all the rooms were cleaned, repainted with new ceilings, floors, that is handicapped accessible and more, that the rooms are too small.

Did you read where the $26.8 million proposed project was recommended by the Facility Task Force to gut the IJH school and repurpose it along with building an additional building about the size of the present Middle School onto it will help the students learn better?

Since when did the Middle School student need a campus-like facility to learn?

Did you know that if the 5th graders were moved back to the Elementary where grade school needs to be, the 6th, 7th, 8th grades would each have their own separate floors?

Did you know that through history the classrooms in the Middle School were divided to make more rooms? Someone needs to investigate that, maybe remove those wooded walls to expand classrooms.

Something to think about before spending millions on another 100-year-old building that has been abandoned for 14 years.

Patricia Henle

Toledo