Today’s Westport Teardown: Building No. 9 at Staples High School

6 thoughts on “Today’s Westport Teardown: Building No. 9 at Staples High School”

1. This mildewed, rat-infested, gas leak-prone, poorly lit and hard-to-enter-and-exit building is one that few people are sad to see go.

   On the other hand, it is filled with memories. Thousands of Staples students debated the great issues of yesterday and today in social studies classes there; discovered the way the world works in physics classes; talked (via Nick Georgis’s ham radio) to King Hussein and Barry Goldwater; thrashed out the novel Staples Governing Board in Room 963, and hung out before and after school in its hallways and teachers’ offices.

   Bottom line: the 9 Building will not be mourned, but it will be missed.

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2. I hope Stan Rhodes’ REALLY AWESOME chalkboard gets saved. Maybe that’s the 7 building. There is no chalkboard like that one…so smooth that every piece of chalk left its mark like it was from an artist’s hand. And it erased well. A rarity in the world of classroom instruction. White boards just aren’t the same, and they’re noxious.
   Perhaps the bigger point I’m implying is that I hope that perfectly good resources are being saved and that the new building reflects thoughtfulness from all ends!

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3. WoW – like Dan said, lots of memories there. I remember algebra classes right where that machine is cutting through. And my locker for two years was on the ground floor there—I remember so many afternoon post-track practice recovery sessions….

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4. I can’t help but wonder if this structure could have been renovated for the office space the BOE is so in need of. Too late now…

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5. So strange to think that the building won’t be there anymore. It was never one of my favorite places to be at school (actually, I wasn’t a fan of any of the academic buildings) but it’s part of Staples history disappearing. Hard to imagine.

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6. Thank god it is down. I hated being there for classes in such disrepair. I remember going right by it and snapping photos from the inside about a week before they took it down. It sure looked pretty creepy in there. It even was dangerous to be in there.

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