To the editor:

The letter in last week’s Phoenix from a BHS teacher makes eminent good sense and adamantly implores the BWSB not to continue in its poorly planned choice to build the new school on the wet land site where the present building is located.

To emphasize this problem, let me ask the planning and design consultants who propose this solution if their professional insurance can tolerate a $200 million site mistake? The townspeople of Bristol and Warren certainly cannot afford the possibility of such a mistake in site choice, especially since we know this site was the object of multiple lawsuits and functional problems in the past.

Perhaps the Towns and the BWSB should follow the teacher’s smart suggestion (and mine) and look for a better site and a much less costly design solution. This may not give our kids a better education compared to nearby towns but it will at least be a more respectful civic approach.

George Burman, AIA Emeritus.
Highland Road
Bristol