DALTON, Ga. – The city’s sixth-graders will not be going into trailers.
During a work session Thursday afternoon, the Dalton Board of Education unanimously decided to stop exploring a temporary fix to its overcrowded high school and middle school. System administrators had been mulling an idea that would have shuffled all of the sixth-graders into trailers outside of Park Creek School on South Frederick Street.
The move would have taken effect next fall. In turn, the ninth-graders would have moved to Dalton Middle School, leaving the high school with three grades, as well.
The plan never moved from the preliminary planning stage, though. Interim Superintendent Don Amonett told the board the shuffle would cost about $4.2 million over the course of two years. The biggest expense would be for the purchase of the additional trailers.
But the money wasn’t the only problem.