I went to school near where this riot took place.

[Mytical]

http://www.correctionsone.com/riots/...o-prison-riot/

When I say near, I mean NEAR. Then they decided that one school near it was not good enough..now all the schools are near it. Two of which are less then two football field lengths away.

[ComputerNecromancer]

http://www.correctionsone.com/riots/...o-prison-riot/

When I say near, I mean NEAR. Then they decided that one school near it was not good enough..now all the schools are near it. Two of which are less then two football field lengths away.

I'm not surprised. I recall a district in Arizona or New Mexico that built a *grade school* across the street from a plant manufacturing *explosives*.

They did it over the objections of the plant (which had been the biggest employer in the area ever since it started up decades before).

After a few years of wrangling, the plant moved. To another state. And the local economy tanked. So did the school budgets.

[wolfie]

I can understand the explosive plant owners' desire to not have a school built next to the factory. Industrial accidents happen, and the press the company involved receives is bad enough without a school full of kids being wiped out in the bargain. I understand that there were apartment buildings near a certain fertilizer plant in Texas - I realize hindsight is 20/20, but places like that would be better off to buy a BIG piece of farmland, set up in the middle of it, and lease out the "potential crater" area as farmland. That way, the headline would be something along the lines of "200 acres of cornfield wiped out in explosion".

What were the people at the school district thinking? Good for the company moving.