By Antonio D. French
Filed Tuesday, May 9 at 5:00 AM
Three members of the St. Louis school board and two city aldermen took it upon themselves to tour Cleveland NJROTC High School on the eve of a vote on whether to close the 93-year-old school.
Superintendent Creg Williams, who has proposed closing Cleveland and moving its students to Madison Elementary, took several representatives of the media on a tour of Cleveland last week. He did not, however, invite all the members of the board of education or the alderman representing the ward in which Cleveland is located.
A day before the board is scheduled to vote on Williams' request, board members Bill Purdy, Peter Downs and Donna Jones went to the high school to see for themselves the state of the "Old Castle."
The board members were joined by Aldermen Dorothy Kirner (25th Ward) and Craig Schmid (20th Ward). Schmid graduated from Cleveland in 1977. Kirner, whose ward the Cleveland is in, said she would like to see the school remain open -- or at the very least, not abandoned and left to further decay.
Click here to see more photos of Cleveland and of today's tour.
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