soren7550 said:
Ryotknife said:
Well, I cant find any information on it, but the school might be old such that renovating may cost almost as much (and still have the "psychological" problem) as building a new one.
From what I could figure out from the school's website, it's not even that old. It only had information on the place dating back to 2011.
So yeah, they built themselves a brand new school for grades K-4, and vote to demolish the place just over a year later.
possible, but unlikely. First of all new schools are pretty rare. Most places are using schools built shortly after WW2 due to the baby boom. Newtown's population as of 1940 was 4,000 people, by 1980 it was 19,000. Now it is 28,000.
Nor do the pictures look like its from 2011. It looks more like 60's or 70's architecture.
EDIT: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/15/inside-sandy-hook-elementary-school/1772307/
school was built in 1956, so the building is a bit long in the tooth so to speak.
EDIT 2: Apparently it will cost just as much to renovate as it will to build a new school.
http://newtownct.virtualtownhall.net/Public_Documents/NewtownCT_BBoard/042BD08D-000F8513.0/SHES%20Building%20QA-5-1.pdf
"Analysis of the renovate vs. build new by the Advisory Committee showed that costs to renovate this 56 year old building, bring it up to code, eliminate the portables, make it energy efficient, provide necessary safety features, and more, generated a cost almost at the same level of new building construction."
can we all stop jumping on the "americans are stupid" bandwagon now?