“CT needs to raze that place. Seriously.”
I agree, who would want to send their kids back in there, again? Perhaps it could be demolished and the open space could be used for a park or memorial.
A problem is that although it’s not a “poor town”, Newtown isn’t a rich one, either, like Westport, Darien, or Greenwich on the south end of Fairfield county.
Nor do I think the town’s remaining schools have room to absorb the 650+ students from the Sandy Hook elementary. Where are they going to go until a new building is constructed?
Perhaps the answer lies only 1.5 miles away — the old but serviceable buildings of the abandoned Connecticut State Psychiatric Hospital (what we used to call “Newtown”). The town has another elementary school right across the street.
If the leftie liberals in Congress want to do something that could really help the victims of this massacre, they could pass legislation appropriating funds for a new school, and include a waiver for any regulations that would delay quick construction.
Puttimg elementary school kids in an abandoned mental institution after their former school building became the site of a mass murder at the hands of a mentally unstable man sounds like the plot of a horror movie. Seriously bad vibe. Won’t fly.
They won’t raze it. They will remodel it, particularly those two rooms. And then they will put the junior high kids in there.