More thoughts on Beverly Hills-Enslow consolidation

Monday, while I was driving around looking for potholes to measure, I took the opportunity to drive past Peyton Elementary in the Rotary Park neighborhood. I had heard it was landlocked, and I had suspicions.

Namely, that if Beverly Hills and Enslow middle schools are consolidated in a new building somewhere, that the existing Beverly Hills building will be converted into an elementary school housing kids from Peyton and Geneva-Kent. As I drove around the school and down a hill, I realized how close Peyton is to the Marcum Terrace low-income apartments.

And then I wondered how the Geneva-Kent parents would react to such a consolidation. Probably not too favorably.

This is something the Cabell County Board of Education will have to address somehow. My kids aren't in the Geneva-Kent or Peyton attendance areas, so I don't have a real dog in this fight except that I'm a Cabell County taxpayer, too.

There may or may not be a hidden agenda here. I don't know. But surely it has to be in the minds of school officials.