Some Yale Residents Want To Save Old School

No one cares anymore about history, Or about saving a peice of America.

No one cares about grammar either... whoops:

"There is no records in it and, in fact, everything that is in it has been accumulated for the past 15 years," said Superintendent Mike Wilson.

The news stories leave much to be desired. I think they outsourced the editor.

If you would attend a few school board meetings you would see how much Mike Wilson wants to save the building, or even get an auditorium.

There is no discussion allowed on the subject. Common feeling is that the school board is working for the superintendent instead of the board running the school.

I live in Yale, I think any time you can allow a piece of history to remain, it's a good thing....when your life is over, and you're old, all you have is memories......I didn't go to school there but I bet there are a lot of people with fond memories of the old school....

There's always been controversy in Yale. Lots of interconnected family trees.
These little high schools (i.e. Yale-Oilton-Drumright) need to consolidate into one comprehensive school where the students can get a real-world education instead of having to take remedial courses in college.

rainforestcuckoo wrote:

There's always been controversy in Yale. Lots of interconnected family trees.
These little high schools (i.e. Yale-Oilton-Drumright) need to consolidate into one comprehensive school where the students can get a real-world education instead of having to take remedial courses in college.

There's a reason we live there, duh....we don't need to consolidate anything!

dave wrote:

If you would attend a few school board meetings you would see how much Mike Wilson wants to save the building, or even get an auditorium.
There is no discussion allowed on the subject. Common feeling is that the school board is working for the superintendent instead of the board running the school.

Evidently you are not attending the same board meetings as everyone else. That is definitely not the image Mike Wilson is projecting to the public.

The organization working to save the building has spoken with Mike, along with board members, several times about discussing the matter at the board meeting. In fact, they have been told they would be on the agenda to speak, and when they arrived to do so, they were not given an opportunity. From my viewpoint, that is outright lying.

It does appear that the school board works for Mike Wilson, as you stated. Mike Wilson has misinformed them more than once, and it will be the board that is held accountable, not Wilson. He has simply created the perfect scapegoat for his own personal agenda.

rainforestcuckoo wrote:

Lots of interconnected family trees.
These little high schools (i.e. Yale-Oilton-Drumright) need to consolidate into one comprehensive school where the students can get a real-world education instead of having to take remedial courses in college.

What an asinine comment.

It is that type of thinking that continues the problem. Do a little decision and problem analysis, and situation appraisals. Try getting to the root of the problem instead of throwing out Band-Aids. A consolidated school doesn't change the instructors, their qualifications, the curriculum, the expectations, or the accountability of everyone, including the school board and students.

The piece omitted a substantial amount of information, and led the viewer to believe that they only recently started trying to "save" the building. In actuality, they have been working to renovate the building for YEARS. As a matter of fact, Mike Wilson has been one of the main figures preventing them from doing so. I don't recall the reporter asking him what he was doing to help get that accomplished... Or anything about the organization heading it up...

The coverage left much to be reported. Whatever happened to true journalists, who went after the whole story, not just what they could throw together to get their name attached to on the 5 o'clock news and fill dead air.

Concerned wrote:

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What an asinine comment.
It is that type of thinking that continues the problem. Do a little decision and problem analysis, and situation appraisals. Try getting to the root of the problem instead of throwing out Band-Aids. A consolidated school doesn't change the instructors, their qualifications, the curriculum, the expectations, or the accountability of everyone, including the school board and students.

What narrow-minded thinking! A properly consolidated high school will definitely change all of the above, even Yale's coveted 8-man football team! And you have to admit the students might even marry others besides blood relatives.

Beyond Concerned wrote:

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What narrow-minded thinking! A properly consolidated high school will definitely change all of the above, even Yale's coveted 8-man football team! And you have to admit the students might even marry others besides blood relatives.

Move up north with your kind!

Its hard for little towns to let go of their school as it is their identity.

If you can keep that, it is good for the town. I know that cash is king and that we have to be practical, but it would be good to try and find a way to maintain it for sovereignty sake and town pride.

Yeah, a lot of information was left out.
No one seem to remember the $40,000 in a trust to renovate the building and the donations from alumni, etc.
There is enough money to rebuild the center without costing the district a dime, but they would rather spend $48,000 destroying it.

Wilson has sent the board members to city commission meeting trying to get part of the park given to them so they can get a new fieldhouse at the football stadium.(BTW, Yale went to 11 man football. That is when they started loosing all their games. There is plenty of money for that project.

Giving the park to the school would end our FFA turkey shoots, our 4th of July fireworks and the civil war enactment.
It really is not a matter of money.It is a matter of a personal agenda and insuring NO ONE gets any benefit from Yale's assets!

Beyond Concerned wrote:

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What narrow-minded thinking! A properly consolidated high school will definitely change all of the above, even Yale's coveted 8-man football team! And you have to admit the students might even marry others besides blood relatives.

Explain to me what is narrow-minded in attacking a broad range of issues a school might have. Decision analysis takes every part of the problem down to the root, analyzes the pros and cons, and eliminates narrow-minded and emotional solutions, which I fear you are basing your opinion on. It goes beyond what you or I "think", which is often based on our personal emotions and connections, to what is simple fact. But since it is obvious that you have spent a great deal of time analyzing this issue and "properly consolidated schools", you already knew that, so why not share your findings and plan.

Hate to state the obvious, but "Yale's" football team would no longer exist because "Yale's" school would no longer exist; it would be your beloved consolidated school's team, not Yale's. Then again, appears your not actually concerned about "Yale" anyway.

Again, asinine comment about blood relatives. Grow up.

dave wrote:

Yeah, a lot of information was left out.
No one seem to remember the $40,000 in a trust to renovate the building and the donations from alumni, etc.
There is enough money to rebuild the center without costing the district a dime, but they would rather spend $48,000 destroying it.
Wilson has sent the board members to city commission meeting trying to get part of the park given to them so they can get a new fieldhouse at the football stadium.(BTW, Yale went to 11 man football. That is when they started loosing all their games. There is plenty of money for that project.
Giving the park to the school would end our FFA turkey shoots, our 4th of July fireworks and the civil war enactment.
It really is not a matter of money.It is a matter of a personal agenda and insuring NO ONE gets any benefit from Yale's assets!

Great points! You manage to show the trickle- down effect of their actions (elimination of other activities) that they seem to be missing. It constantly appears that they cannot look "long-term" beyond the end of their nose. The renovated auditorium would provide a place for debates, quiz bowls, concerts, public speakers, public use and much more that could provide additional revenue to the school, which is always appreciated, and could be used to remedy the problems at the current fieldhouse AND expand it.

Thanks for clarifying the 11-man thing. I was wondering if I had missed hearing that they were reverting back to 8-man next fall.

Wilson states in his interview that the plan is for a new Jr. High. A plan already exists, Norma Velvin Center for Performing Arts, that immediately provides 3 classrooms, and that local organization was working directly with Wilson to create a plan that could provide more.(Currently, no other plan exists for a new Jr. High, so why tear down the building.) The organization was also trying to provide more parking, student annex, new bus facility, etc. and was looking at promoting the entire school, not just one area (trickle-down effect, again). Channel 6 failed to state any of that, as well.

I take great pleasure in knowing that supposed safety hazard of a building, that Wilson stated had bricks falling off, is giving the wrecking crew a bear of a time in removing those bricks! Seems the ole girl is built better than he led the public to believe!

dave wrote:

Yeah, a lot of information was left out.
No one seem to remember the $40,000 in a trust to renovate the building and the donations from alumni, etc.
There is enough money to rebuild the center without costing the district a dime, but they would rather spend $48,000 destroying it.
Wilson has sent the board members to city commission meeting trying to get part of the park given to them so they can get a new fieldhouse at the football stadium.(BTW, Yale went to 11 man football. That is when they started loosing all their games. There is plenty of money for that project.
Giving the park to the school would end our FFA turkey shoots, our 4th of July fireworks and the civil war enactment.
It really is not a matter of money.It is a matter of a personal agenda and insuring NO ONE gets any benefit from Yale's assets!

The High School football field is located in the City Park and that is the only part of the park that the school wanted deeded to them. They are the only ones using that football field and the remainder of the park would still be available for all of the functions you mentioned. It would relieve the City of the liability on that portion of the park.

I don't know where you live, but even in Yale it would cost much more than $40,000.00 to remove the asbestos and renovate that dilapated building.

unmotivated31 wrote:

<quoted text> Move up north with your kind!

ROTFLMAO!!!

What history? If you're talking about local stuff, who cares. Out with the old and in with the new.