Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The limestone quarry is very old, it has been there since the 1930s. They bought the school because it was basically given to them by the corrupt school board. Fort Wayne?s population has not crashed, but the Fort Wayne Community Schools district is losing students rapidly. The schools are so badly run that anyone who can afford to do so is putting their kids in private schools, homeschooling them, or moving to parts of Fort Wayne served by one of the other public school districts (the city is mostly served by FWCS but the other three school districts in the county also have small parts of the city within their boundaries). I worked for FWCS as a teacher for four years. The teachers I worked with were mostly good people, but the leadership of the school district fought us tooth and nail at every turn to prevent us actually teaching students. I could talk for days about the shit I saw in those schools, and the brain dead apes who collected their government paychecks at the school district?s offices downtown. We were losing teachers too. The least year I taught, the district began the school year with 50 teacher openings. No one wants to work for them, and older teachers are quitting in huge numbers. Pay isn?t the problem; FWCS pays its teachers very well. The problem is working conditions and the shitty way the district?s leadership treats the highly educated professionals who work for them. I miss my students, but not the job. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Like My Work on Facebook On 11/1/17, 9:08 PM, "LUG on behalf of Douglas Barry" <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of imra at iol.ie> wrote: >Chris, >As I'm currently involved in organising 50th anniversary reunions at two >of my schools in 2018, it always brings a tinge of sadness to see >people's childhood memories being crushed into oblivion. I had to look >at the place in Google maps and there is indeed a large hole behind it. >Seems incredible to me that the returns on limestone make enough sense >to purchase a large site in a city and so close to its airport. Are you >sure it's limestone they're mining and not gold or uranium?? > >Has the FW population crashed so much that the school can be dispensed >with? > >Douglas > > >On 01/11/2017 21:48, Christopher Crawford wrote: >> The high school I attended, Elmhurst High School in Fort Wayne, closed >>in >> 2010 and is about to be demolished. I made this photograph of it in >> September, right before a fence was built around the building. >> >> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=2749 >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information