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Published March 27, 2008 09:33 pm - It has been a long time since the Joplin R-8 School District held groundbreaking and ribbon-cutting ceremonies on the same day. R-8 holds ribbon-cutting, groundbreaking ceremonies for new classrooms, school By Joe Hadsall
jhadsall@joplinglobe.com It has been a long time since the Joplin R-8 School District held groundbreaking and ribbon-cutting ceremonies on the same day. “You’d have to go back to the 1920s when this kind of day would occur,” Superintendent Jim Simpson said Thursday. “That’s the last time the district was on a progressive movement to build schools.” A groundbreaking ceremony for South Middle School and a ribbon-cutting at Eastmorland Elementary School took place Thursday. The two projects will add more than 141,000 square feet of new classroom and school space. South Middle School Several future South students, including Emerson Elementary fifth-graders Tony Isley and Alex Cusick, joined dignitaries in turning earth on East 50th Street. “That was awesome,” Tony said. “I can’t wait to go.” When the building opens for the 2009-10 school year, the two youngsters will be among about 620 students who will attend. “My sister said the old school is OK,” Alex said. “But she’s excited about the new school. It’ll have more room.” South Middle School Principal Ron Mitchell said the school’s current sixth-graders are excited about having more elbow room. “The seventh- and eighth-graders are upset they won’t be able to go,” he said. “But in a few months, we’ll have classrooms where we won’t bump into each other.” Four classrooms at South now have 700 square feet each; the rest have 500 square feet, Mitchell said. The new building will have 900-square-foot classrooms, modern science and library rooms, a 700-seat auditorium and an expanded gymnasium. The 127,500-square-foot school is part of a $57.3 million middle-school campaign authorized by voters in a bond issue last April. R.E. Smith Construction Co. was awarded the construction contract on March 11. The company submitted the low bid of $18,140,000. 
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