Comments on: Preserving Eanes Elementary School’s character essential

By: Eanes mom

Eanes mom — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:08:19 +0000

I can’t help but agree. I first saw WHS in 1974 and saw it expand over the years. Today? It reminds me more of a prison than a school. Security is great, but I don’t think that the gates and walls do anything but make it look like Gardner Betts (the juvenile detention facility in Travis County). It cost a lot for that cold feeling.

By: EANES DESCENDANT

EANES DESCENDANT — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:37:12 +0000

Having attended Eanes Elementary, Cedar Creek, HCMS & WHS, can you guess which one feels more like home? Overhanging trees, nearby creek that Mrs. Tull taught us to garden near & covered OUTDOOR walkways between buildings, that’s Eanes Elementary. Home is some place you recognize, it’s a place that invites. This is what’s missing in modern square footage homes and schools. They repel.

Let me remind you that the reason modern schools LOOK like prisons is because they’re designed and built by the same people. What’s safer? Eanes with multiple separate small buildings or the WHS LOCKDOWN, no windows you can crawl out of (much less open) in an emergency design?

Modern school design has an ulterior effect and all that’s lacking is the concertina facing inward. WHS students, trained to be “RIGHT AT HOME” in a cellular world filled with florescent light. “Your I.D. & papers please comrade.”

By: EISD Mom

EISD Mom — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:39:33 +0000

Eanes could be transformed into an amazing outdoor campus. It could be redesigned and salvaged as an example of how an innovative design can allow children to thrive.

By: Eanes mom

Eanes mom — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:46:18 +0000

As someone who remembers the original WHS, I am thoroughly repulsed by the walls and the locked gates. It’s no longer architecturally the friendly and inviting place it once was.

By: Please preserve it

Please preserve it — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:48:07 +0000

Those of us who went to Eanes elementary as children still recognize it as the same school we attended many years ago. We cannot say the same for WHS which is no longer recognizable as the school we attended and loved, due to the expansion and modernization of it. Hopefully Eanes will be allowed to retain its charm and character.

By: Learning resources?

Learning resources? — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:14:49 +0000

The two most important resources for learning: 1) Teachers (and therefore, small class size) 2) Safe, accessible classrooms. Not more “technology”.

By: Great

Great — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:13:39 +0000

I’m not saying there should be razor wire and armed guards around the campus.

Learning in today’s world involves technology. A modern campus is needed to do that.

By: neighbor

neighbor — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:40:51 +0000

The only way you get something that is completely “safe, secure, modern, etc.”, is to build what is in effect, a prison. A cold, boxy, institutional structure. (And I am familiar with commercial structures). Some schools feel like prisons and is THAT a healthy, positive, learning environment? What is ultimately the goal?
I believe LEARNING is.

By: Confidence?

Confidence? — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:46:39 +0000

Mr. Allen wrote: Confidence in the continued economy’s improvement is simply not there yet.

Actually confidence in the Eanes ISD leadership is also not there.

By: eanes taxpayer

eanes taxpayer — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:54:20 +0000

You’re a brave man, Great. Now brace for the attack.