I was reading the paper the other day, and I happened to notice this article, which is mainly about putting “mini-parks” within the Med-Tech District. But toward the end of the article, it says this:

In other business, the commission discussed recent talks with Peoria School District 150 to allow for construction of a new middle school in the Med-Tech district, which would focus on math, science and technology.

A Med-Tech committee met last month with interim deputy superintendent Ken Hinton, interim superintendent Cindy Fischer and treasurer Guy Cahill to discuss the project, expected to cost about $15 million.

So, the school district that is $19 million in the hole — so broke they have to close schools — is now thinking of building a new school in the Med-Tech District for $15 million? But wait, it gets better:

There has been talk about locating a new school at the site of the current White Middle School, which is being considered for closing.

So, they want to close White School (ostensibly to save money), tear it down (expensive), then build another school on that site that will cost $15 million. This is their plan. Let’s go over it again: (1) Close schools to save $19 million, (2) tear down one of them, (3) build new school on the same site for $15 million.

Does this make any sense whatsoever to anyone? I mean, I must be missing something. Someone, please tell me what I’m missing here.