The private Todd Academy plans to move into a historic building
at the northwest corner of East and New York streets in Lockerbie Square. The building is owned by locally based Axia Urban,
which also is developing the Landmark at Lockerbie condo building in the 200 block of East Street. Locally based Acorn Group
Inc. brokered the lease deal. Property records show the building at 302 N. East St. was built in 1928. Todd Academy offers
high school and middle school programs for students who want to enter college early.
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Welcome to Property Lines, Indy's source for neighborhood real estate news. Your host is Scott Olson, IBJ's real estate beat
reporter. Edited by Cory Schouten.
The private Todd Academy plans to move into a historic building
at the northwest corner of East and New York streets in Lockerbie Square. The building is owned by locally based Axia Urban,
which also is developing the Landmark at Lockerbie condo building in the 200 block of East Street. Locally based Acorn Group
Inc. brokered the lease deal. Property records show the building at 302 N. East St. was built in 1928. Todd Academy offers
high school and middle school programs for students who want to enter college early.
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Good ole' Obamacare. Thanks liberals and those who didn't bother to vote.
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Yes. Blame those who were too lazy to go vote Obama out and those who voted him in again. That's my take on it. I know folks won't get it on the left. OK. Start berating me now!
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IPS should learn a lesson that it is not new fancy buildings that create educated kids, it is parents, teachers and administrators who care that do. New schools will only bankrupt the community, parental involvement will educate children.
In addition, those teachers you refer to that educate the student need resources and materials to teach. You should have a teacher having to go to Marsh to make copies for her 26 students in her classroom (too many students to begin with) of which only 17 have books to take home and study from. The teacher has to make copies because the school has an old copier that breaks down and doesn't have enough books for every student. That is the major problem.
Anyhow, this is in Lockerbie square, so it is extremely unlikely that it will be altered.
It is great to see a better use of the structure.
It is one of our older ones.
So they are not building fancy new buildings in IPS? So what happened to School 34 near I-65 and Raymond? A very solid old building from the 1920's. It was in good condition, roof did not leak and with minimal maintenance, would last another 100 years. But IPS determined it was better to rip it down and replace it with a brand new building. The old one did not leak, did not smell like sewers, had great lighting, including a unique feature called large windows that provided not only light but ventilation. The only thing lacking was an elevator to provide ADA compliance. I know several inner city Catholic Schools that have turned 80+ year old schools into ADA compliant schools for a fraction of what IPS spends on new ones. And school 34 is not the only one. That is why IPS is wanting to spend close to a billion dollars to replace schools that just need an update.
Oh yes, the air conditioning. Amazing how for 100 years kids attended these schools and managed to learn without AC. But of course school districts used an interesting thing called common sense to fix that problem. They started school in September and ended it in June. You see, there are few 85+ degree days in early June and September than in August which is when the kids start now. Seems like a waste to spend millions of dollars to AC schools that only really need them for a couple of weeks.
I am sure most teachers are good. That was not really where my issue is. The number 1 teaching problem IPS has is that they can not get the parents to care. Some do, but the majority of the kids who have discipline problems or bad grades have parents who do not care. You find a solution to that, and you will change IPS for the better.
3 IPS schools go year round. So we need to air condition all IPS schools because three go year round? That does not make sense. It is still cheaper to air condition an old school than to tear it down and build a new one.
If the IPS schools have operable windows, there is no need for AC in 80 to 85 degree weather. Open the windows and run a fan or two. I would doubt many of these kids are used to AC at home. I know we did not until I was a teen. Even then we only used it on the hottest days.
I think IPS could use some of the millions for new schools and AC on technology the kids need. Then let the taxpayer keep the rest. Seems fair to me.
Wait till you see what CG has on the drawing board. I would hate to be a taxpayer in White River Township.
Really, I don't think IPS is going for anything close to palaces. They seem to be shooting for adequacy; and even that causes backlash.
I know Hamilton county doesn't pay as much in taxes as Marion County - but guess what - your developable land is almost gone - get ready for an increase in taxes like you have never seen in the next 5 years when people stop building and adding to the tax base and the flat back developments will start crumbling.
I know, I know: the two are totally unrelated. But learning to read or studying science in an 80 degree room is impossible and unacceptable. Doing physical work in the heat is one thing; LEARNING is another. The operable windows in my kid's school didn't do a bit of good last September, and even into October.
Those of you saying schools don't need AC: respectfully, get a clue. Stop romanticizing how you were able to tough it out as a kid. Education is important, and worth the investment.
Donna,
Education is worth it, spend the money on it. Not on AC that may be used for a couple of days (with the right schedule). It is amazing how AC has been around commercially since the 30's and all of a sudden IPS decides kids cannot learn without it. I wonder what we did the other 80 years.
And for those 80 degree days, do what we did, take the kids outside and show them science outside the classroom. Amazing things lay just outside the doors.
I'm kidding, but really: AC is like heat and indoor plumbing. It's a basic health and safety requirement IMO. Yes, buildings that are sited properly and take advantage of overhangs, prevailing winds, etc. are happily occupiable without air conditioning - but the existing IPS buildings we are discussing (now that we've gone waaay off-topic from Todd Academy) are not new buildings using that kind of site-specific, vernacular, time-tested passive environmental technology that is old yet thankfully new again.