It’s with cautious optimism that we celebrate the Board of Education’s unanimous decision to tangibly move forward on giving us our long-awaited total campus.

Numerous delays and distractions caused years to pass with no decisions and no progress.

We are frustrated that it took so long but overjoyed that it seems to be finally happening.

In some ways we feel as though we will have to see it to believe it.

Four graduating classes have passed through our new school without having a place to gather as a student body, and soon it will be five.

No assemblies. No pep rallies. No Veterans Day programs. No home games.

Struggling school spirit. A distant sense of family.

We are sorry for you, Classes of 2014-2018, and probably even beyond. You missed a major part of the
high school experience.

Now we anxiously await the day when wrongs are made right.

At last we can actually visualize the day when we are finally a total high school campus like everyone else.

We are hard pressed to offer kudos to a decision that is years overdue and yet we offer kudos because we are greatly relieved.

Finally GRC will be a complete high school and not a shell of one.