To the editor:

After attending the school board public meeting last Tuesday night, I was more than outraged. How dare the administration and school board consider closing schools when they haven’t even considered closing their own building. Mr. Minder said they had never had the conversation. They had never even talked about it. I think it’s time they started.

After listening to the argument that buildings don’t make the schools, people do, the school board complained that they couldn’t possibly evacuate their building quickly, that it wouldn’t be convenient or cost-effective and that they house things that are important like … media. Schools house things that are important too like, for example … young minds. Aren’t the children the very reason the administration exists?

If the school board and administration decide to displace the students, raise class sizes and lower the property values of an entire neighborhood by closing a school, they should first and foremost consider relocating their own offices and selling their digs. Based on the valuation guide provided by this very newspaper, 110 McDonald Drive is valued at — is that figure right? — $5 million. Jackpot. Then maybe the administrators could take up offices at the Virtual School or, heck, do what they do to the fifth-graders at Sunset Hill: Rent some trailers.