Last night’s Morongo Unified School District’s Board of Education meeting began with a tour of a recently modernized elementary school. Reporter David Haldane was there and filed this report…
The number two pencil is dead.
That’s the message imparted by Morongo Unified School District Superintendent Tom Baumgarten at last night’s tour of the new modernized Oasis Elementary School in Twentynine Palms. Chalkboards have been replaced by smart boards beaming Internet images from the teacher’s desk. Classroom ceilings now have embedded speakers enabling everyone to hear. And an elaborate intercom system connects classrooms to the principal’s office or even parents stationed abroad.
It’s all part of a $5 million remake of the aging campus that, among other things, added nearly 4,000 square feet of office space, seven classrooms, solar lighting and sophisticated new security systems.
District officials are so proud of the results that they showed them off during a two-hour open house prior to Tuesday’s regular board of education meeting. The goal, Baumgarten said: bringing the district into the 21st century.
SCHOOL BOARD TOURS MODERNIZED SCHOOL CAMPUS
