In your April 4 edition, the superintendent of Columbus public schools, while talking about the closure of Franklin Academy, was quoted as saying:
“Franklin opened as the state’s first free public school in 1821. With that much history, the school’s aging facilities can be expensive to maintain, Ellis told the audience of roughly 20 people.”
This really troubles me to think that he believes that the present building is the original two-room schoolhouse.
Bob Raymond
Columbus
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