[asianthree]

The schools look like college campuses with more perks than some private schools.

Our granddaughter hopes that a new hospital will be built at WellPoint, then she and her soon to be fiancée can raise their future children in what she thinks will be one of the safest walkable communities. She believes in multi gen to raise children as that is how she was raised.

The schools speak volumes when young adults are impressed with a school system to make advanced plans.

[bowlingal]

my old high school didn't even have air conditioning

[dougawhite]

The new schools are fabulous and I love that parents are required to serve a number of hours each month as volunteers doing something useful with/for the students.
My HS was brand new when I attended in the early 70s. It had a spectacular theater and underneath the sloping concrete floor where the theater seating was there was a 50' 10-point rifle range for our rifle team to practice and host competitions. We were CT state champions 2 years in a row. Ah, the good 'ol days.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by MandoMan

This in an amazing facility. (Perhaps more buffalo than roamed on the range.) I love how students are being prepared for the hospitality profession by teaching them to wait tables and for construction management without referring to, say, carpentry or plumbing. Nice shop! This will help students aspire as well as get entry-level jobs. I saw a shot in a library, but I didn’t notice any books. Perhaps that is appropriate, given the word last night that the Florida legislature has passed a law forbidding teachers from assigning students to read entire plays by Shakespeare (died 1616). Only carefully chosen quotes that will be on exams will be allowed. Well, after all, Romeo and Juliet encourage suicide pacts between fourteen year old lovers! And Hamlet’s mom marries her brother-in-law who killed her husband. And Lady Macbeth was a murderer. Indeed, Shakespeare’s plays are as filled with murder and sex as dozens of movies today! Can’t have that! (Less than most rap songs, though.) Also, Shakespeare’s plays are in fact filled with double-entendres, though most students won’t catch the jokes,. (The book “Shakespeare’s Bawdy” lists them all.) But who needs Shakespeare. Who understands Shakespeare? (Well, I do, and everyone else in my family.) But imagine if any kids from Florida get into Harvard and discover that they are drowning academically because they don’t have the knowledge elite students are expected to have, even though they have lots of buffalo. Below is an example of a Shakespeare quote with double meanings.

Just had to turn this political... SMDH...

Did it possibly cross your mind that there were "no books" because they hadn't been put out yet?

I did notice plenty of boxes in different offices and classrooms yet to be unpacked...

[Barborv]

I retired from HS education last year and was in a very good school district. If I was in a school like this though, I might have not retired!! LOL The school is amazing. But hopefully the staff will be also. Esthetics are nice, but it's the staff that makes the school. Of course, state of the art equipment helps. What a fabulous building! I just sent my future son in law who is a math teacher this video saying " are you sure you don't want to move here" LOL

[jmpalladino]

Originally Posted by Jim 9922

A quick look at the theater makes me think that it will quickly become " The Sharon" for Southern Villagers. Hopefully we will be able to support two venues of this size with the same quality/variety of performances as presently exists in Spanish Springs.

Jim, This is for the students, not for The Villagers. Why is it always about "us"?

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by jmpalladino

Jim, This is for the students, not for The Villagers. Why is it always about "us"?

Because if WE go to the shows that are put on there, the school makes more money, which will help support the Arts Program there.

So it's really about THEM...

[Lisanp@aol.com]

WOW! Just WOW!
Lucky kids! Those facilities are nicer then most very expensive private colleges!
To all you naysayers about evil developer blah blah blah...the entire purpose of Middleton and the new Villages Charter School is to attract talent to the area to support YOU! Their hope is that this school will attract the young doctors and other health care professionals with young families to the area so that they can build a world class teaching hospital and wellness village along the turnpike. That DIRECTLY benefits YOU!

[Shycat]

Has an open house been planned for the general public to tour the facilities??

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by gbs317

I’m with you. The schools I went to were never that nice.

Maybe in the next lifetime, I will go to a high school that is that impressive. That is smart to have the desks in the back row of the classrooms set up higher. That stock display ticker tape may be the only one in any high school. The robotics lab looked interesting. Maybe the robotics lab can make a large animated buffalo that walks around the school halls and answers student questions. Amazing that they have 4 basketball courts and/or 8 volleyball courts in that massive gym.
Hopefully, a better, more modern high school will produce BETTER more well-rounded US citizens.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Maybe in the next lifetime, I will go to a high school that is that impressive. That is smart to have the desks in the back row of the classrooms set up higher. That stock display ticker tape may be the only one in any high school. The robotics lab looked interesting. Maybe the robotics lab can make a large animated buffalo that walks around the school halls and answers student questions. Amazing that they have 4 basketball courts and/or 8 volleyball courts in that massive gym.
Hopefully, a better, more modern high school will produce BETTER more well-rounded US citizens.

Here is an article from the Daily Sun…….it appears the schools have been doing extremely well for 20+ years….producing well-rounded citizens.
Charter school builds on 21 years of success | News | The Villages Daily Sun | thevillagesdailysun.com

[tophcfa]

The new school is some of the best Villages related news in a long time. The high school FINALLY has their own pool and they will no longer be invading the Laurel Manor sports pool, depriving Villages residents of valuable lap swimming time. Moving the school way south will also alleviate some of the traffic congestion in the area around the intersection of 466 and Buena Vista : )

[billethkid]

Hopefully, at some point folks will get as excited about addressing the teachers pay levels (the key element that makes the "wonderful" work, or not).

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[Altavia]

Back to School with The Villages Charter School 2023

It takes a dedicated team to deliver the lifestyle we love in The Villages, FL. So, today is very special as we officially welcomed their children to the Buffalo Ridge campus and the new Middleton campus of The Villages Charter School.

https://youtu.be/50DWKpl1qkk