The last few months the county school board has been taking polls of people in Stokes county as to what they think the best plan of action is for the school that I currently serve 3 days a week.
Nancy Reynolds is one of the oldest if not the oldest school in Stokes county. The Reynolds family set up an endowment before they all died off that would give a large amount of money to the school but the stipulation was that the money had to be spent on the grounds and couldn't be spent on the actual building or inside the building. I am sure you can imagine what 80+ years of students and teachers can do to a building. The school needs extensive renovations or just needs to be bulldozed and a new building put up.
So I am writing all of this because the school board is holding a Town Hall Meeting tomorrow night at 7 to let us all know what they have decided. There were a couple of options: 1- renovate, 2- donate the building to the community and build another school at another site, or 3- bulldoze the school now and rebuild a new school to look like the old school at the same site. The last option would be my choice but since I don't live in Stokes county or have kids that go to the school, I don't get a say. My job will move wherever the school does as long as the county continues to contract with my company.
Even though I live about 40 minutes from the school, I think I am going to drive up tomorrow night to find out what they are going to do. I didn't go to the first town hall meeting and I heard that it was interesting. So, I guess we'll find out tomorrow. For now here is a link to a story that FOX 8 news did last year.
FOX 8 News
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