Readers of Raleigh’s News and Observer?s North Raleigh section are going to be confused or maybe amused by Keung Hui?s article ?School spat: Meeker and Eagles trade barbs.? Raleigh Mayor Meeker and Rolesville’s Mayor Eagles are in a political battle over the location of the new Wake County High School.
What is confusing and amusing about Meeker’s support is that he worries that most of the students who will attend this school live closer to Raleigh than Rolesville. He also worries about high school students being in a remote location. Mayor Meeker’s wife and minority school board member, Anne McLaurin, like her husband, is a proponent of busing students, especially elementary age students all over the county for diversity, so these sudden concerns are confusing.
Dinnertime conversations must be interesting at the Meeker household. Honey, can you can you take time from your busy schedule of spending taxpayers? money in downtown Raleigh to oppose the new location of the North Raleigh high school? You know I’m in the minority and need all the help I can get stirring up controversy.
However, the article points out that the school staff is now backing away from an original estimate of $15.4 million in additional costs by abandoning the original Forest Ridge site. In fact, another site has become available that is a real deal.
Mayor Eagles has the best barb. “Charles Meeker is upset because he can’t control everything, Eagles said. “King Charles is not getting his way.”
Neither is the minority school board, but they keep trying.
This is going to be a fun spat to watch.
