Neighborhood Elementary Schools

(Re-post from the Scrantonite.)

Handsome late 1800s stone and brick school on Oram, in the heart of a neighborhood it serves. Sadly, one of two neighborhood schools being killed to create the inaccessible monstrosity pictured below.

The new school is inaccessible enough by car, at the far end of a disconnected, small residential street, and its design is extremely unapproachable by foot. Wouldn't want neighbors interacting, or parents having the odd chance to discuss the quality of their kids education. That'd be kinda threatening.

The kicker is that some wanted to name the new school after Jane Jacobs. Oy.

More reading on preserving old schools:

http://www.saveourlandsaveourtowns.org/renovate.html

http://www.preservationnation.org/issues/historic-schools/