The article (News, July 11) regarding District 205’s outgoing superintendent’s comments concerning the need for a new York High School at $70 million is interesting. Evidently this need is based upon the results of a Northwestern University Graduate School study that indicated a new school was needed to help the York staff and student body focus on the future rather than “past glories.”
I do not live in District 205 nor do I have anything against Northwestern’s Graduate School, but I cannot agree that one must have a new school to focus on the future. I graduated from Lyons Township High School in the late 1960s. At that time the school was almost 80 years old and much of the building dated from that period and had, like York H.S., been added onto many times over the years. I can attest that the age of the building had absolutely nothing to do with the superior quality of education given at LTHS.
Given modern equipment and community support, it is the teachers and staff that drive the focus of a school–not the age of the building.
