WOWbloggers – One of the hottest topics in Fayetteville right now is whether to keep the high school at its current site and build it up to par, or to build a new facility out on Deane Solomon Road. Parents and other concerned citizens have been very vocal on the matter, and quite understandably so; a lot is at stake. But what say you about it? You are, after all, at the very heart of the matter, whether you are a student there now or will be someday soon. Would you prefer FHS to stay or to go, and why?
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I’m rather out of the loop in this matter but as an alum of FHS and as a current adult resident of Fayetteville, I’d prefer ANOTHER high school to be built. We don’t need to move, we need to expand. The school system should keep their current building and build another in the proposed location (or even in another location possibly more centrally located?). Springdale and Ft. Smith both have successful dual high schools and I think it’s time Fayetteville realize its status and accept the increase in the young adult population as permanent and necessary to the future of our town.
I sooo want a new high school. My older brother went to FHS. That was when I was about 4 or 5. I thought that place needed an extreme makeover even better, a new one.
Two high schools would definitely be the ideal. As a teacher in Bentonville, I saw firsthand the frustrations that come with a student population that has outgrown a building and its faculty. The halls are too crowded, stressing out the students as they make their way through a melee of elbows and backpacks, trying to avoid tardy slips. The cafeteria is too crowded, threatening students with indigestion from shoveling in food they’ve finally managed to get after standing in line for all but the last five minutes of the lunch period. Most importantly, the classrooms are too crowded; there aren’t enough minutes in a period to allow the teachers to devote a proper amount of individual instruction to the students … a ratio of 30 kids to 90 minutes, or even worse – 30 kids to 50-55 minutes!? I don’t think so.