Building obsolete schools

Here's a great new issue:  what to do about building new schools when you know they are obsolete already.

At my appearance at the National Community Education Association this month, Jim Boswell, an administrator from the Bullitt County school district in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, asked about what they should do building a new school when he (and we) know the new school will be obsolete before it is built.

British educators are wondering too.

"We will be left with school buildings which are not fit for purpose and may be obsolete even before they are occupied" says a new report from the British Council for School Environments. Check the story out here.

What do you think?