Here are the exact numbers from the FCBOE. In 2003, $678,637.00 was spent on construction and $282,531.00 was spent on new equipment for a total of $961,168.00 for the "state of the art" kitchen renovations at East Fayette Elementary. This year, $430,000.00 was approved, but $541,000.00 was actually spent to install an energy management system and a new air conditioner in the gym at East Fayette. IF you would like to verify this information, please call the FCBOE construction department at 770 460 3990 ext 175. So, the FCBOE will be wasting $1,502,168.00 of our taxpayer money by repurposing East Fayette to a different kind of educational facility. East Fayette is an elementary school, it is set up for K-5. If you turn it into an alternative high school, you will have to spend more taxpayer dollars on bigger desks for high school kids, more computers for high school kids, media center books for high school kids, a bigger parking lot for high school kids that drive, etc. Come on, FCBOE, STOP WASTING OUR MONEY!!! Closing or repurposing a school was not mentioned in the bond that was past 2 years ago. That bond was passed to build and open new schools because of overcrowding. Why would you even consider closing a school if we are building a school because of overcrowding? Could it be because this new school is being built in the wrong place and the only way you have enough students to fill it, is to close another school? We could fill Inman Elementary with the cows and cow patties surrounding it, because there is nothing else out there!

I am still puzzled about the construction of this school, what were they thinking???

The question isn't what were they thinking...it should be WERE they thinking????