IC's Roosevelt deserves a future

Iowa City's Roosevelt Elementary is closed. Subtracting decades of tasteless capacity additions, I see a cute little pile of bricks in a parklike setting. The school has reached a crossroad, not a dead end.

Theodore Roosevelt Elementary: the brick teddy bear. The children are sweet, the grown-ups friendly. Members of the student body have lived around me for 32 years. The school board needs ideas for Roosevelt's future - your ideas.

One person told me Roosevelt would make a nice special education center. Another suggested a junior high school. I feature Roosevelt as a K-6 UI teaching laboratory for children in the immediate neighborhood.

The taxpayers having already paid for it, tell the Iowa City Community School District to deed the school over to the city for restoration of the grounds and building and lease to an educational institution. I can feature the second coming of the ICCSD.

Robert G. Dostal

Iowa City