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MOVE THE SCHOOL. Everything sucks, there is serious injustice, and no foresight to building the highway. Portland still needs the highway and the school. So j

MOVE THE SCHOOL. Everything sucks, there is serious injustice, and no foresight to building the highway. Portland still needs the highway and the school. So just use the highway's powers to make room for a school. If you don't have foresight, then at least make things right.

rootusrootus 8y ago
Yes, this is the answer. Moving the interstate is a non-starter. And even if there were political will to do so, the costs would be dramatically higher than just building a new school farther away.
erentz 8y ago
This is the only correct answer. Anyone using the school as a prop in a campaign to prevent widening of the highway is essentially arguing it is fine for the school to stay where it is if the highway is not widened. This is simply untrue. The pollution is too high as is. This annoys me because it feels like a very selfish use of this situation by those campaigning against the freeway. They don't care about the students, they're using them for their own interests which are to prevent the widening. The school needs to move regardless of whether the freeway is widened or not. I've tried pointing out elsewhere that the article is incorrect in identifying a building on that location in 1962 as being the school. The school was not opened on that location until 1982. [1] Further is was closed in 2012 then reopened in 2018. [2] In 1980s we may not have known about the pollution problem. But by 2018 when it was reopened there are countless articles about the pollution problem and concerns with the schools location that clearly demonstrate the school district knew of the problem. The only solution can be to move the school. But having invested in reopening it I can see why the school district will be very hard to move on that. [1] https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/07/04/a-middle-school-prized-by-portlands-black-community-would-see-its-poor-air-quality-worsen-with-a-rose-quarter-highway-expansion/ https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/07/04/a-middle-school-prized... [2] https://expo.oregonlive.com/news/erry-2018/08/c7c3d773398362/daunting-but-dreamtof-new-port.html https://expo.oregonlive.com/news/erry-2018/08/c7c3d773398362...

rootusrootus 8y ago

Yes, this is the answer. Moving the interstate is a non-starter. And even if there were political will to do so, the costs would be dramatically higher than just building a new school farther away.

erentz 8y ago

This is the only correct answer. Anyone using the school as a prop in a campaign to prevent widening of the highway is essentially arguing it is fine for the school to stay where it is if the highway is not widened. This is simply untrue. The pollution is too high as is. This annoys me because it feels like a very selfish use of this situation by those campaigning against the freeway. They don't care about the students, they're using them for their own interests which are to prevent the widening. The school needs to move regardless of whether the freeway is widened or not. I've tried pointing out elsewhere that the article is incorrect in identifying a building on that location in 1962 as being the school. The school was not opened on that location until 1982. [1] Further is was closed in 2012 then reopened in 2018. [2] In 1980s we may not have known about the pollution problem. But by 2018 when it was reopened there are countless articles about the pollution problem and concerns with the schools location that clearly demonstrate the school district knew of the problem. The only solution can be to move the school. But having invested in reopening it I can see why the school district will be very hard to move on that. [1] https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/07/04/a-middle-school-prized-by-portlands-black-community-would-see-its-poor-air-quality-worsen-with-a-rose-quarter-highway-expansion/ https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/07/04/a-middle-school-prized... [2] https://expo.oregonlive.com/news/erry-2018/08/c7c3d773398362/daunting-but-dreamtof-new-port.html https://expo.oregonlive.com/news/erry-2018/08/c7c3d773398362...