Sandy Hook Demolition

[Al Bundy]

Originally Posted by Al Bundy

Or they could do like they did with the McDonalds in San Ysidro. They tore the building down and rebuilt it a couple of blocks away.

Which was private dollars. IIRC

[Demonpenz]

ban school demolitions

[BlackHelicopters]

Change the name of the town.

[luv]

Only after a public vote. If the town is for it and wants to pay for it through taxes, then great. If not, I don't see why they couldn't just do some renovations.

[wazu]

Originally Posted by luv

Only after a public vote. If the town is for it and wants to pay for it through taxes, then great. If not, I don't see why they couldn't just do some renovations.

Sounds reasonable. If I lived in the town my vote would be to re-build. They could probably raise a fortune for the effort nationally and have a state-of-the-art facility.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by wazu

Sounds reasonable. If I lived in the town my vote would be to re-build. They could probably raise a fortune for the effort nationally and have a state-of-the-art facility.

This is a good point.

There wouldn't need to be a dime of taxpayer money spent. It wouldn't take much organization at all for a fundraiser drive to go viral and yield millions in private donations.

And those could easily cover the costs of the new school.

I voted no and still don't support a taxpayer funded version. That said, it is an old school and there are creative solutions to having it funded that would yield a better educational environment for the students.

This isn't a "my God, what if a child finds a finger" type emotional response. From a purely logical perspective, the events at Sandy Hook would allow that community to essentially get a free brand new school to replace an aging relic. What's the downside here if it can be done through private donations?

[Frazod]

Where's the WHO GIVES A SHIT option?

[Chief Gump]

Originally Posted by frazod

Where's the WHO GIVES A SHIT option?

That would be the "Get bent douche!" option.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Chief Gump

That would be the "Get bent douche!" option.

OK

[Fish]

If the only motivation is because something bad happened there, then that's just stupid.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by Fish

If the only motivation is because something bad happened there, then that's just stupid.

we're probably in the minority. I'd be pissed at the waste of taxpayer dollars, but arguing against the demo is probably a losing battle because most people are superstitious and stupid about this sort of thing.

There's a reason why many areas require you to disclose if a house you are selling had a murder in it, and that lowers the price. (why, you think the place is friggen' haunted?)

[Fish]

Originally Posted by alnorth

we're probably in the minority. I'd be pissed at the waste of taxpayer dollars, but arguing about demo is probably a losing battle because most people are superstitious and stupid about this sort of thing.

There's a reason why many areas require you to disclose if a house you are selling had a murder in it, and that lowers the price. (why, you think the place is friggen' haunted?)

Yeah. Not trying to be insensitive.. but at some point you have to accept that bad stuff happens everywhere, and we can't just erase it and start over in every scenario. There seems to be a "Throw away" mentality these days. Where everything is treated as disposable. But that's illogical and unsustainable. Many states are completely racked with debt in the millions right now. Spending millions more of tax payer money, just to assuage the emotions of some people is a pretty poor precedent.

As has been said, if they can replace the school with donated funding from those who care, more power to them. But this isn't the smart way to spend tax dollars.

[J Diddy]

Hey Johnny we're going to need you to go that school where 20 of your friends were slaughtered last year and focus on learning okay?

[Chief Gump]

Originally Posted by J Diddy

Hey Johnny we're going to need you to go that school where 20 of your friends were slaughtered last year and focus on learning okay?

Well maybe they should all be home schooled. I would think just the fact of being at school would be just as tramatic.

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by Chief Gump

Well maybe they should all be home schooled. I would think just the fact of being at school would be just as tramatic.

and it's painfully obvious that you have your mind made up and with every answer you will give an over the top example. I'm sure there will be trauma associated with any school by virtually every student there and I agree that at some point there has to be some movement forward. However, making a child sit in a building 40 hours a week to remind them of their pain is not how to do that. That's the old slap some dirt on it boy mentality and that isn't going to work. Regardless, my opinion on the mental health of the students the real question should always be:

Is being in that building conducive to learning?


That answer is no.
No.