Column: High School District 227 Board candidates discuss what to do with vacated Rich East building

A sign over the front door of the former Rich East High School in Park Forest.

Once, the school was the pride of the community and it still proudly displays a permanent billboard over its shuttered front door attesting to when US News & World Report hailed it as “One of America’s Best Schools.”Today, the building sits unused on its 56-acre site fronting Sauk Trail. Today, the school’s athletic fields are unused, its school rooms vacant, its aura and prestige a distant memory.

and move students to either the Rich South campus in Richton Park or the Rich Central campus in Olympia Fields.— narrowly drawn to dodge voter approval — to expand facilities at the other two schools including a new athletic complex at Rich South. Meanwhile, Rich East was gathering dust. The only sign of life came last year when the school’s parking lot was cordoned off and, according to one source, was used to store roofing materials for the other two campuses.

Candidates for Rich Township High School District 227 Board Andrea Bonds, from left, Randy Alexander, Mason Newell, Lamekia Davis, Shagmond Lowery and Keith White at a recent forum.

School choice only solution, kids trapped in failing public schools run by teachers unions with teachers making $100,000, 1 admin person for every 4 teachers, 1/4 don't graduate, those that do half can not read, math, write at grade level, blacks stuck in schools that fail them

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