Knox school board to consider building new school

[Lola Alapo]

By Lola Alapo
Monday, June 15, 2009


Knox County school officials may build a new elementary school or perform major renovations at four existing schools to alleviate expected student growth in the county's southwest section.

The Knox County school board today will discuss both options during its 5 p.m. midmonth work session.

Superintendent Jim McIntyre has prepared an analysis comparing the benefits and costs associated with each scenario.

"What we know is we'll see substantial growth of 500 to 800 students in the western part of the county in the next five to seven years," he said.

Building a new elementary school would cost an estimated $19.8 million, including land purchase, construction and furniture, according to McIntyre's analysis. He and his staff have been in talks with the owner of Northshore Town Center near Pellissippi Parkway about purchasing land. No offers or deals have been made, McIntyre said.

The construction option also takes into account $5.5 million of additions and renovations to Ball Camp Elementary School. The money for Ball Camp was approved in last year's capital plan. Altogether, the plan would cost $25.3 million and provide a capacity for 1,050 students.

The second option calls for $24 million in renovations and additions at Ball Camp, Blue Grass and Hardin Valley elementary schools and Farragut Intermediate School, and provides capacity for 1,000 students.

Read more here

[Debi]

You continually state "research" but never provide citations. A university doing research does not mean it is necessarily valid research any more than an entity other than a university means necessarily it's bad research. However, here is quite a bit of research from Universities that disproves you assertion. Ignoring that body of evidence helps you to believe your outdated, unproven statements if you only stick with university research, as they primarily focus on behavior and physiology and biochemistry. The NIH, for example, has done some good work.

And if autism were simply an in utero brain issue, why does the majority of those with autism have GI problems? You will never answer this question, I've asked it quite often. Why do those with autism have inflammation if it's "just a brain disorder in utero?":

Pediatric Vaccines Influence Primate Behavior, and Brain Stem Volume and Opioid Ligand Binding

"In 2008 at the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) held in London, the now infamous yet surprisingly under-reported macaque monkey study was presented. Laura Hewitson, the study´s lead investigator from the University of Pittsburgh explained that half of the monkeys in the study were administered the same vaccine protocol as the children in the 1990s received (adjusted for weight), while the other half remained completely unvaccinated. Hewitson reported developmental delays, behavior problems and brain changes in the vaccinated macaque monkeys that are incredibly similar to what was found in children with autism in the above mentioned study. The unvaccinated macaques were all unaffected and normal."

I'm so very glad you aren't working in the school system. The idea that people should stop asking questions because it makes YOU feel better is exactly the wrong ideal we need to have in the school system. Indeed, asking questions continually, even for things we think we know is what propels our understanding of virtually everything.

[Debi]

"Ignoring that body of evidence helps you to believe your outdated, unproven statements if you only stick with university research, as they primarily focus on behavior and physiology and biochemistry. The NIH, for example, has done some good work."

What I meant to say is, "...if you only stick with university research as they primarily focus on behavior and NOT physiology and biochemistry [of autism]."

[Cathy McCaughan]

Quizzes by Quibblo.com