School tours
January 15, 2010
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The Marshall Board of Education intends to place a building bond issue on the April ballot. In order to inform the public about the condition of existing elementary schools, the district is hosting a series of question and answer meetings at each school. Each meeting begins with a tour of the facility guided by the principal. So far, tours of Eastwood and Southeast elementary schools have been conducted.
Art-on-a-cart. At Southeast, arguably the most cramped of Marshall's elementary schools, the art teacher doesn't have a room to keep supplies and instead wheels supplies on a cart to meet with students.
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Bubbling, crumbling paint on a wall in the library at Eastwood Elementary School illustrates water seepage problems that plague several of the older school buildings in Marshall.
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Eastwood Principal John Angelhow leads a tour of the facility Monday, Jan. 11.
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Eastwood Principal John Angelhow opens the basement back door through which disabled students are brought to get to the cafeteria. Students cannot get to the cafeteria without being escorted outside and around to the back entrance.
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Wayne Crawford, co-chairman of Citizens for the School Bond, addresses a small group of citizens at a public meeting and tour Monday, Jan. 11.
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Walt Keith has been at several of the recent public meetings about the school bond proposal. Keith says he is not opposed to addressing facility needs, but he has been an outspoken critic of the district's current plans and has made suggestions for alternatives.
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Marshall Superintendent Craig Noah has been at each public meeting this week and last to answer questions about facility needs and about how to implement plans for either building new or renovating old schools.
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Paint peels in a closet behind the library at Eastwood school, a result of seeping moisture.
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School nurse Virgie Simmerman shows visitors her office at Southeast school, which is too small to accommodate a cot for sick children. The cot is located in the hallway just outside her office.
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Southeast Elementary School Principal Rendy Maupin, right, shows visitors the stage area of the gym/auditorium during a tour Thursday, Jan. 14. The stage can no longer be used during school programs. It is now used for storage and includes a teacher's office.
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Eastwood Principal John Angelhow explains the boiler system during a tour Monday, Jan. 11. He noted, as other district officials have, that while the school boilers are relatively new, the rest of the heating system is old and becoming a chronic maintenance problem.
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Water seepage has ruined a ceiling tile and damaged paint on this wall in a hallway at Southeast school.
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Water streams down a wall in the basement of Southeast school. Superintendent Craig Noah notes that because of the way the land slopes, water ingress may always be a problem at the school.
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A former computer lab at Eastwood school is now used as a classroom.
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A classroom at Southeast school. Principal Rendy Mauplin leads citizens on a tour of the building Thursday, Jan. 14.
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Paint peels from the ceiling and wall in a storage closet at Southeast school. The problem is caused by steam from the boiler room that enters from a basement doorway.
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Partitions create a small classroom as part of a larger one in the trailer at Southeast school.
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A pot of umbrellas are kept near the door of the trailer at Southeast school for use by students who have to walk between the trailer and the school building during bad weather.
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Despite problems, Marshall elementary schools are bright, welcoming places, thanks in part to murals painted on hallway walls.
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Southeast Principal Rendy Maupin takes the tour through the trailer behind the school building.
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About 20 people attended the tour and discussion session at Southeast school Thursday, Jan. 14, after less than half a dozen attended the meeting at Eastwood school Monday, Jan. 11.
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A teacher's office, tucked into a corner of the stage at Southeast school, which is primarily used for storage.
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Citizens await the start of a tour at Benton Elementary School Saturday, Jan. 16.
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The newest addition to Benton school, built in the 1970s, includes a wide foyer that is also used for indoor recess when the weather is bad.
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A classroom at Benton school that has been subdivided into three mini-classrooms.
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The nurse's office at Benton school. Unlike the nurse's office at Southeast, there is enough room (barely) to fit a cot for children who are ill and need to rest.
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Music-oriented mural in the gym at Benton school.
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Hallway at Benton school during the tour Saturday, Jan. 16.
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Nearly 30 people attended the tour/meeting at Benton school Saturday, Jan. 16.
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Benton Principal Paige Clouse explains why a teachers' workroom in the basement had to be emptied of materials. Steam from the nearby boiler room was making the room like a sauna, she said, threatening to ruin supplies stored there.
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Water-stained carpeting in the teachers' workroom in the basement of Benton school.
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