“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” – Sir Winston Churchill
After shaping generations of children for over 90 years, AE Angier Elementary School’s final chapter ended today. After removal of windows and some items which will be included into the new school (the medallions over each of the main entry doors for example), final demolition of the structure began this morning.
Angier students will be bussed to the Carr school for the next 18 months, maintaining their identity as “Angier at Carr,” with a projected return to the new school to take place around February of 2016.
Old Angier had fallen victim to both poor maintenance and to changing educational requirements over the years, rendering the facility a top MSBA replace/renovate candidate. It will be up to the new facility to “shape” the next generations of Angier students.
Farewell dear friend.
Just drove by there and saw you walking towards it, Chris. I thought of taking some shots of the demo but when I saw you I knew the photo-documentation task was in good hands!
“Angier at Carr” – would make a great T-shirt.
Many people who live in the Carr School area are beginning to understand how poorly the school authorities have treated them regarding the Carr renovation. Our children should be the ones attending this newly renovated school.
But no this is not the case.
The Horace Mann will continue to use a school that is bulging at the seams and inadequate compared to the new Carr.
I spoke to Mr. Russo last March and proposed that the new Carr be used to service the community in which it is situated.
He said no because the decision to house the Angier children was the priority and he was not interested in changing course at this time.
Not only would he not consider Carr for the community in which it sits but he wouldn’t consider it for the next 20 years.
I find this decision very discriminatory for the Carr school and Horace Mann families.
I hope people who attend H.M. will call school officials and ask for reconsideration of their flawed decision.
Chris,
Thanks for a great photo! The pain of the next 18 months will be worth the new school.
Colleen,
As a parent on the “other” side of town, my child will be in your neighborhood for 18 months. I hope all of the parents from Angier are good neighbors, since we will be neighbors for 18 months. It isn’t easy for me to send my 8 year old across town, as is. I am a BIG neighborhood school person. But, I have to send her on the bus, to be respectful to the Carr neighbors. I am expected after years of walking my child into class on the first day of school, to load my kid onto a bus on the first day of school, and not walk her into a brand new building (for her). I am expected to be respectful of the Carr neighbors, and I plan to be respectful. I am going to miss this years first day and next years first day walk to be respectful of the neighbors (I don’t have many more first day walks, since in middle school no child wants to be walked into school.)
I have been told not to come to school often, and to remember the Carr school neighbors.
And then I read your post . . . it already is hard enough to send a kid across town (not even half way across town, but all the way across town), where she knows no one outside of the building, and then to read this very unwelcoming post. I am trying to make the best of it, and I know that you and many of the neighbors aren’t happy either.
But we are a community, and I plan on not walking my child to school for 18 months. I plan on trying to be the best neighbor, and when my daughter has a parent child performance, I plan on parking in a respectful way to the neighbors, and I am expecting my fellow Angier parents to do the same.
But as a community member, I have watched the new Newton north go up (knowing my kids will never attend it), and I supported it. But now the Angier children need a home for 18 months. Please be welcoming to the kids. The Angier community is learning how to be a neighborhood school in someone else’s neighborhood. A school that many of could walk to, and hang out and see our neighbors.
The Angier webcam is now up and online as well (http://oxblue.com/open/Angier). In addition to showing what has happened in the past weeks, the camera will allow a continuing picture of construction as it happens.
Wow, that’s cool. Will it be there for the duration of the project? And is this an official camera or some secret NSA thing that they came up with after reading our emails?
Yes, the camera will be up for the duration.
As for the other thing, you may very well think that. I couldn’t possibly comment.
The cam needs a Howard Cosell voice, not sure why they didn’t think of that
I have never been able to get a definitive answer as to who will store the exhibit on the world of Albert Angier and where it will be displayed in the new school. On the 100th exhibit of World War I, it is appropriate to commemorate his life and death in the “Great” (?) War.
@Brian- not just the “Great” war, but “The War to End All Wars.” We still have much, too much to learn.