If you go out to the Avenues on Blanchette and Avenue c you
will see where a big chunk of the last bond issue money was spent. For
what? A state of the art school half full in a neighborhood filled
with dope dealers,crack addicts and prostitutes. It was that way while
they were building it. Just to get a school with the name of
M. LK How ridiculous was that? You people need to get a
group of people from out of Beaumont to come here and assess the situation
and give their views. From what I have observed you people
don't have a clue as to what the majority of people want. Why do you think
white people have abandoned all the schools,except West Brook, and moved to
other districts. Its because you people have lost your minds. None
of you can make an intelligent decision. Part of the $50,000.00 was spent
on renovating South Park Middle School. Remember it delayed
the start of the school year because it wasn't finished? That cost
$1,000.00.
Why don't you combine all the elementary schools in the South
Park area and house all them in our old school instead of tearing it down.
Then you can build low income houses on that property and try to bring South
Park back to what it used to be in the 60s and 7os. Why don't you tear
down Ozen since it is in need of such extensive repair? South Park High School
has been in its same location 100 years.
Lamar Tech started out on the 3rd floor If the city of
Beaumont had kept up with their preventive maintenance all these past
years there would be no need for a bond issue. Austin Middle School
doesn't seem to have any maintenance problems neither does West Brook High
School. I can promise you that this most recent bond issue will not pass
because the people have already seen how the last bond issue was
squandered. Lois Acker