Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The building's there, but the school's gone

The last few days, one of the topics we've spent a bunch of time talking about is this school in Raymond. We just took it over a few months ago and Danny and Leann have spent a lot of time hiring teachers, and generally getting things put together for the new school year.

The school opened a couple of months ago. It had a 160 kids, new books, new uniforms. It was the first time there a had been a free school in this town, ever. We had a lot of great plans for the future of this school.

Well, the building's still there, but the school's gone.

There used to be a river a few hundred feet behind the school. There is now a second river on our land behind the school.

And there's also a river a few feet in front of the school.

We're not sure what we're going to do with the school in the future. Honestly, it doesn't look like it will be possible to rebuild in the same place. And so all the plans we've made are gone...along with a school.