Abandoned Burton Elementary School Erie, Pa. This is a suggestion from TH-camr and subscriber Justin Vickers. Be sure to check out his channel. / channel
If you ever get into the school, please contact me. I did my student teaching at Burton in 1975-1976. Mercyhurst had a lot of the students go to Burton for different classes. I remember my coop teacher was Vicki Corappi. She taught 4th grade. The ratio of black students then was 52%. I learned a lot because the teachers there at that time were awesome and shared a lot with us.
Went to Burton from 1953 to 1958. At that time most of us were from the Roger Young Housing Project across the street...now it's a park. The left quarter of the school (facing it) was the old part and had an 1893 date on the outside. Even then we were a bit behind the times...I learned to write with a dip pen in an inkwell that fit in the wooden desk. Good teachers and even though it wasn't modern, we learned much better than the kids today. I think the excellent reading teacher I had helped through university. Our janitor then was a man named Carl....our water fountain was a porcelain one...very old fashioned but more effective than many of today's schools.
Where you went up the stairs and saw the room with the chairs was our auditorium / cafeteria. This brings back a lot of memories. I went to that Elementary School from K - 6 grade.
Hey if you're ever down in the South Hills, there's a closed CVS by South Hills Village mall. The weird part is they built a brand new one across the street!
I would like to say thanks for all the videos you have uploaded for us to watch especially this one because there's not a lot of pictures online of the school. you are doing amazing work. I know people will start seeing the same thing I do the love of history through your videos. I like to say please do not stop I believe one day you will make it. If there was a way to make you big overnight I will do it. What got me interested in history was the American Pickers I hope one day you can get that big I thank god we have a person like you keep up the good work now it's time for a Budweiser.
Brandon McClain Thanks man. I really enjoy making these videos and exploring all of these abandoned places. It's so much fun. Hope that Bud was good. I have a lot of respect for them for what they did for the hurricane victims. I love Anheuser Busch
I went here late 80s and early 90s. It was hell. "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better, and your better best." Fuck that place.
There's an old middle school in Johnstown Ohio built in 1927 that is still being used. It may be torn down when the new high school gets built. We should do a video on it together, I can tell you which window is for what teacher's classroom
My upstairs neighbors are from Erie PA and her kids used go to that school till it closed. When I sent her the video she said the neighbor was nightmare so when the school closed she moved her whole family down south to Tennessee. She said the schools enrollment got so low because of crime in the area, Rezoning of schooling , Funding of school services so alot of parents were taking their kids out of there putting else where.
I live on the other side of town. They closed like 5 schools in a short amount of time. Roosevelt school is abandoned also. I went there for middle school.
It's a decent building that could repurpose for senior housing or veterans housing or even a charter school (seems to be the thing in my town now.) Great video. They are closing schools and over packing the remaining ones. When I went to elementary school int he 70s I think the student to teacher ratio was like 19 to 25 to one. Because I was a brainiac and a smart ass they would send me and other smart asses to talented and gifted half the day so I didn't fall asleep in class. LIke a did a lot. I got bored easily. In just a year you just keep getting better and better Wallie. It's only upward from here.
I worked at Burton a few days during the last weeks it was open The door on the east side of the building led to a big ramp hallway The door in the back that came out of an outcropping in the building is probably a stairwell from the boiler room but I don’t remember exactly
Wallie you have such cool videos! Can you do any videos on Sweet Tomatoes? There's also an abandoned school called Moton Elementary. I watched it from another producer. Pretty neat to see the inside of it.
Seeing those stairwells, I can picture all the kids running down those stairs and out the door, and Alice Cooper's "School's Out" playing as a montage! Lol!
Along these lines there's an empty primary school in Chenango Forks, NY, north of Binghamton. Has been closed a long time, showing signs of vandalism, wouldn't shock me if there's a way inside.
Burton didn't have a football field. I don't think any elementary schools in Erie have sports teams of any kind. The gravel by the side door is where the playground used to be. The park across the street belongs to the community, and not the school. Those homes next to the park are some of the "Projects". Burton used to be brick, and still is under the stucko. They did the stucko in the 90s. The holes in the stucko on the parking lot side are from kids. You could throw a baseball at the school to practice catching the rebound when it was brick. When they added the stucko, the next day you had those holes. Kids didn't know it would break so easily. Not saying I know who did it, but some of those holes have been there for decades. In the back parking lot, the teachers would park at the far end so the kids could play during recess. The popular recess game there when I was a kid was called "catch Jason and take turns beating him", which was popular enough that the teachers watch watch from inside, or pretend not to watch if they were outside. It was a rough neighborhood. It looks like it still is.
The district is planning to sell this campus as of Mar 30, 2017. www.goerie.com/news/20170330/erie-school-district-ready-to-sell-former-burton-school I wonder if they sold it yet or if it is in escrow. I heard it closed as the result of budget cuts and school boundary and grade reconfiguration.
That was one of the leading factors was budget cuts. When I filmed this, it was rather clean meaning the grass was cut but I didn't see anything that hinted at the idea of being repurposed or sold.
The city of Erie school district closed high schools to turn around and use them for middle schools while there are empty school buildings that they pay taxes on anyway, like this one.
My cousin used to go to that school until it closed im in Rochester those were my memories and my cousin used to live in the red apartments next you if u keep on walking and know they don't use the football field anymore or the pool i loved those times i don't like rochester my parents are separated and we had to move i used to love downtown and go to u waldameer with my friends i loved it and next to the school their was a park when u went to the side of the school
Hey Wallie, I live in Erie, PA. I see you have been to a lot of places close to me. Let me know if you're interested in doing a collab. I've been looking for local TH-cam creators to work with.
awesome video, wallieb26! hopefully more people will subscribe to you (like i did) when they see the high-quality content you're uploading. under-noticed channels like yours and mine could use the validation. : )
Hey Wallie was looking at other stuff on here and you tube took me here.The school is used for storage now is all.That's why when you looked in the doors that was the gym.
The class right Inside from where the Facebook murdered was shot by the police, was Mrs Whites class where in 1957 a new kid got demoted to our class. He was twice as big as anyone in the class. And sharpened a doz brand new pencils... before stabbing them... one at a time into my thigh! Its an evil spot... another older kid began beating me relentlessly for no reason, right on the lawn where the Facebook murdered met his maker! Evil spot!!!
I'm not familiar with the Facebook murder in Erie. Isn't the park location where the man from Cleveland ended his life? It could be the same story, I'm not really sure. The Man approached an older man in Cleveland while on Facebook....well, it was heartbreaking. He then drove to Erie.
You said they closed the schools because they don't have the money believe me I'm from Erie Pennsylvania I moved out of that hellhole in 1970 when you have a mayor that has a 7 term time in office you have the same police chief for the same time then you know that the money they do not spend because they put it in their pockets they killed so many projects wanting to come in to town because the gangsters Didn't want anybody interfering in their illegal enterprises.. They can afford to keep anything open they just won't do it. I could write a book my stepfather was a committee man we lived by 32nd in green garden whenever projects were to come in to be built or whatever whatever the job might have been everybody always had to get a cut I remember being in my parents home on a Saturday night when the mayor would show up the police chief would show up the contractors would show up all kinds of people would show up and all that happened for an hour and a 1/2 were envelopes full of cash money and I mean back in those days it was huge money Being passed out to everywho ever needed to get paid off to make something happen And you can bet your a** it hasn't changed one bit except today the money is much bigger.. I remember a 1967 litten industries wanted to come in and build ships which would have kept a city with plenty of employment for years and years to come they would have probably had to bring in people because you wouldn't have enough but they turned it down because they didn't have control of the cash flow so they felt they wouldn't make any graph money off of the project what a horrible f****** town to be From....
I attended 2nd grade there...close to 50 years ago. The park across the street ( not related to the school), was so much fun. It had the swings with the handles..and we sometimes went to the pool. They'd have bands play there too. We couldn't go alone then though. I'd forgotten all about Burton.
if you ever make it to Clinton county buy my house is an abandon gas station off of interstate 80 going to lock have i think you should check it out been closed for a long time a lot left in it let me know if you can go there and i can give you direction i think there is still allot in side let me know if you want to check it out
Is haunted my mother used to work in that movie theater and she never would want to go down in the basement I don't know if they let you go down there or whatever because they just renovated it Inn at 2 I could tell you then another never wanted to go down in that basement and won't she did one time and she wouldn't do it again without someone with her
Originally there was the Roger Young Housing project that was constructed of rows of WWII army baracks. My family lived on the bottom of A drive and moved to the top of the project on Downing Ave. We were the last to move out. Roger Young was a WWII soldier who was partially blind and deaf, who after being given an order to retreat, went back in to save his comrades and was shot a number of times during his heroic effort, before being killed. The smaller, older section of Burton was to the left and was constructed of red sandstone. Carved above the main door was established 1893 and Public School No. ____? The newer section to the right was built in 1923 and constructed of red brick! Heaven knows when the ugly grey cladding was added and windows reduced in size from their large picturesque view. Probably to insulate better. Attended from 1956 to 1962. Fond memories of my many friends growing up there. Mark Stanczyk
Thanks for the history. That's one thing I love about Erie...the history. I briefly lived in that area in the 70's, attended Burton. At that young of an age, not many think about what you just shared. It's greatly appreciated 😊
Yo Man if your ever in Erie again and want to collaborate let me know I know a lot of abandon places here and stuff I’m a new TH-cam and I’m trying to make it as I’m writing this I got 38 views and only 8 subs in 3 days I’m trying to find people around this area
Love your vids man. Abandoned places have always fascinated me. But, when you talked about not wanting people to get you on the race card, and then go on to mention about the percentage of students....come on man. Could you not be more telling? Either way, love your vids. I will continue to enjoy them
The schools in Erie have been consolidated into one School because of lack of funds due to corrupt Democratic leadership which drove industry out of Erie. The General Electric plant will be closing soon which will cause more exodus of the population. However, more Muslim refugees are scheduled to be sent to Erie. I was born in Erie in 1950 and it used to be a dirty industrial town. Now it's just "dirty".
You are Soo Correct!!!! When ever Someone wants to bring industry to Erie the Population has a Hissy Fit ! Saying Oh its Because of Erie's Industrial Past the Majority of the Population crys saying That's Why there is I High Cancer Rate ! It's just another way of the. DEMOCRATS TO KEEP THE POPULATION POOR and Continue to have the Majority of the Population voting for More Food Stamp Money 💰
@@lovetoronto7453 I agree! The Demoncraps gained a foothold through the unions back in the day when Erie became an industrial city. I worked at the GE plant for four years and hated the unions and after awhile when I realized I was supporting a political candidate of THEIR choice, I quit the union and was told by a union steward that if I ever needed help, the union would not back me. After four years I left and became a truck driver and again, I was in a union where my Uncle was a steward. That did not work out! To this day the Demoncraps still hold the throne of politics up there and the taxes are so high, I'm surprised anyone can survive! I now live in NC where there's very few unions. I've been here for 31 years and retired as a Jailer with the Sheriff's Department where a union tried to worm its way in there but nobody wanted it.
If you ever get into the school, please contact me. I did my student teaching at Burton in 1975-1976. Mercyhurst had a lot of the students go to Burton for different classes. I remember my coop teacher was Vicki Corappi. She taught 4th grade. The ratio of black students then was 52%. I learned a lot because the teachers there at that time were awesome and shared a lot with us.
"Who died and left you Boss"? Mrs. Corappi
my friends got into there abt a year or so ago
Went to Burton from 1953 to 1958. At that time most of us were from the Roger Young Housing Project across the street...now it's a park. The left quarter of the school (facing it) was the old part and had an 1893 date on the outside. Even then we were a bit behind the times...I learned to write with a dip pen in an inkwell that fit in the wooden desk. Good teachers and even though it wasn't modern, we learned much better than the kids today. I think the excellent reading teacher I had helped through university. Our janitor then was a man named Carl....our water fountain was a porcelain one...very old fashioned but more effective than many of today's schools.
Where you went up the stairs and saw the room with the chairs was our auditorium / cafeteria. This brings back a lot of memories. I went to that Elementary School from K - 6 grade.
The easter/Facebook killer killed his self in front of that school.... Look it up
Hey if you're ever down in the South Hills, there's a closed CVS by South Hills Village mall. The weird part is they built a brand new one across the street!
Amanda M Thanks for the heads up! I have to go check it out!
I would like to say thanks for all the videos you have uploaded for us to watch especially this one because there's not a lot of pictures online of the school. you are doing amazing work. I know people will start seeing the same thing I do the love of history through your videos. I like to say please do not stop I believe one day you will make it. If there was a way to make you big overnight I will do it. What got me interested in history was the American Pickers I hope one day you can get that big I thank god we have a person like you keep up the good work now it's time for a Budweiser.
Brandon McClain Thanks man. I really enjoy making these videos and exploring all of these abandoned places. It's so much fun. Hope that Bud was good. I have a lot of respect for them for what they did for the hurricane victims. I love Anheuser Busch
Have you explored any other historic or sightings in Erie Pennsylvania
That football field is a park called Roger Young Park.
I went here late 80s and early 90s. It was hell. "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better, and your better best." Fuck that place.
There's an old middle school in Johnstown Ohio built in 1927 that is still being used. It may be torn down when the new high school gets built. We should do a video on it together, I can tell you which window is for what teacher's classroom
Emery Clark's Animatronics Channel I'm up for that! Just keep me posted!
Thank you for the video , really interesting
Any way you could tour the old Roosevelt middle school on 22nd & Brown Ave ? Always wanted a closer look
Just because it's on the east side doesn't mean it's a bad neighborhood.. An the police an SWAT uses that building
My upstairs neighbors are from Erie PA and her kids used go to that school till it closed. When I sent her the video she said the neighbor was nightmare so when the school closed she moved her whole family down south to Tennessee. She said the schools enrollment got so low because of crime in the area, Rezoning of schooling , Funding of school services so alot of parents were taking their kids out of there putting else where.
I live on the other side of town. They closed like 5 schools in a short amount of time. Roosevelt school is abandoned also. I went there for middle school.
It's a decent building that could repurpose for senior housing or veterans housing or even a charter school (seems to be the thing in my town now.) Great video. They are closing schools and over packing the remaining ones.
When I went to elementary school int he 70s I think the student to teacher ratio was like 19 to 25 to one. Because I was a brainiac and a smart ass they would send me and other smart asses to talented and gifted half the day so I didn't fall asleep in class. LIke a did a lot. I got bored easily.
In just a year you just keep getting better and better Wallie. It's only upward from here.
I worked at Burton a few days during the last weeks it was open
The door on the east side of the building led to a big ramp hallway
The door in the back that came out of an outcropping in the building is probably a stairwell from the boiler room but I don’t remember exactly
I used to go here in 1st grade I think 2010. Awesome you came so close to my home
Wallie you have such cool videos! Can you do any videos on Sweet Tomatoes? There's also an abandoned school called Moton Elementary. I watched it from another producer. Pretty neat to see the inside of it.
There is an empty abandoned school in Bloomingdale, Ohio... Wayne Elementary School closed its doors a few years ago.
Seeing those stairwells, I can picture all the kids running down those stairs and out the door, and Alice Cooper's "School's Out" playing as a montage! Lol!
Too bad you couldn't get inside ,that would've been cool ! Thanks for the video
Looks like schools sitting closed here in Chicago.
that not surprising crime is up to in the south side leftest killing chicago
The Burton Elementary school in Erie, Pa was built in 1923
Vary Cool video
im from erie but now live in flordia i lived in harboorcreek i would like to know why this scool is said to be haunted
Along these lines there's an empty primary school in Chenango Forks, NY, north of Binghamton. Has been closed a long time, showing signs of vandalism, wouldn't shock me if there's a way inside.
I think there is an abandoned gas station where I live. Not sure but I saw the sign rust and then next it wasn't even there. I really do not know
all those chairs can be donated to other school shame
Burton didn't have a football field. I don't think any elementary schools in Erie have sports teams of any kind. The gravel by the side door is where the playground used to be.
The park across the street belongs to the community, and not the school. Those homes next to the park are some of the "Projects".
Burton used to be brick, and still is under the stucko. They did the stucko in the 90s. The holes in the stucko on the parking lot side are from kids. You could throw a baseball at the school to practice catching the rebound when it was brick. When they added the stucko, the next day you had those holes. Kids didn't know it would break so easily. Not saying I know who did it, but some of those holes have been there for decades.
In the back parking lot, the teachers would park at the far end so the kids could play during recess. The popular recess game there when I was a kid was called "catch Jason and take turns beating him", which was popular enough that the teachers watch watch from inside, or pretend not to watch if they were outside. It was a rough neighborhood. It looks like it still is.
That was my school before
The district is planning to sell this campus as of Mar 30, 2017. www.goerie.com/news/20170330/erie-school-district-ready-to-sell-former-burton-school
I wonder if they sold it yet or if it is in escrow. I heard it closed as the result of budget cuts and school boundary and grade reconfiguration.
That was one of the leading factors was budget cuts. When I filmed this, it was rather clean meaning the grass was cut but I didn't see anything that hinted at the idea of being repurposed or sold.
There is a abandoned elementary school on davis mill rd off of sheraton park school been gone for 25 years .
The city of Erie school district closed high schools to turn around and use them for middle schools while there are empty school buildings that they pay taxes on anyway, like this one.
I went to East right before they closed it down.
You should do abandond high schools&abandond hospitals
I went there my kindergartner year and it closed the year after I miss that school so much
and your videos are awesome
cool looking school.
I worked as janitor in that building it shame that to close it do redistricting and budget
Mg Sch hey Erie county technical school is hiring. 15 an hour! Part time
My cousin used to go to that school until it closed im in Rochester those were my memories and my cousin used to live in the red apartments next you if u keep on walking and know they don't use the football field anymore or the pool i loved those times i don't like rochester my parents are separated and we had to move i used to love downtown and go to u waldameer with my friends i loved it and next to the school their was a park when u went to the side of the school
Candy Soto?
We're those flip flops did u buy them at the payless at the mall?
I miss that school it was the best school 😒
There used to be a park where the gravels at
There’s a book called Erie elementary
Hey Wallie, I live in Erie, PA. I see you have been to a lot of places close to me. Let me know if you're interested in doing a collab. I've been looking for local TH-cam creators to work with.
I believe Jefferson and Irving are also sitting vacant!
Bonnie Austin-Phillips... there was no football field in 95
Reminds me of my elementary school days
You should do the banded Garfield Elementary School in Niles Ohio I used to go there
Go check out the abandoned Toys R Us on a highway it's just sitting there completely
That part of erie tho it has more crime but the east side is so fun🤞🏼
awesome video, wallieb26! hopefully more people will subscribe to you (like i did) when they see the high-quality content you're uploading. under-noticed channels like yours and mine could use the validation. : )
D-rok Roxx Thank you so much. I subscribed to you too!
Hey Wallie was looking at other stuff on here and you tube took me here.The school is used for storage now is all.That's why when you looked in the doors that was the gym.
I drive by here all the time
Naw they said that school is open
Also a school jefferson had 500 students
That is the same exact area where the facebook killer stopped his car and ended his life.
We have great chicken nuggets.
The class right Inside from where the Facebook murdered was shot by the police, was Mrs Whites class where in 1957 a new kid got demoted to our class. He was twice as big as anyone in the class. And sharpened a doz brand new pencils... before stabbing them... one at a time into my thigh! Its an evil spot... another older kid began beating me relentlessly for no reason, right on the lawn where the Facebook murdered met his maker! Evil spot!!!
I'm not familiar with the Facebook murder in Erie. Isn't the park location where the man from Cleveland ended his life? It could be the same story, I'm not really sure. The Man approached an older man in Cleveland while on Facebook....well, it was heartbreaking. He then drove to Erie.
@marys4565 Yep exactly!
Wallie have you ever asked to film a school, etc. With how respectful u r u can maybe sweet talk
You said they closed the schools because they don't have the money believe me I'm from Erie Pennsylvania I moved out of that hellhole in 1970 when you have a mayor that has a 7 term time in office you have the same police chief for the same time then you know that the money they do not spend because they put it in their pockets they killed so many projects wanting to come in to town because the gangsters Didn't want anybody interfering in their illegal enterprises.. They can afford to keep anything open they just won't do it. I could write a book my stepfather was a committee man we lived by 32nd in green garden whenever projects were to come in to be built or whatever whatever the job might have been everybody always had to get a cut I remember being in my parents home on a Saturday night when the mayor would show up the police chief would show up the contractors would show up all kinds of people would show up and all that happened for an hour and a 1/2 were envelopes full of cash money and I mean back in those days it was huge money Being passed out to everywho ever needed to get paid off to make something happen And you can bet your a** it hasn't changed one bit except today the money is much bigger.. I remember a 1967 litten industries wanted to come in and build ships which would have kept a city with plenty of employment for years and years to come they would have probably had to bring in people because you wouldn't have enough but they turned it down because they didn't have control of the cash flow so they felt they wouldn't make any graph money off of the project what a horrible f****** town to be From....
My grandpa live right by that school I used to play on the playgrounds there
I attended 2nd grade there...close to 50 years ago. The park across the street ( not related to the school), was so much fun. It had the swings with the handles..and we sometimes went to the pool. They'd have bands play there too. We couldn't go alone then though. I'd forgotten all about Burton.
Franklin middle school vallejo California closed in 2020 check it soon
I went here. My teacher was Mr. Troop
I used to go to school there 2nd and 3rd grade 84 and 85
It's for sale now new update
Erie is a nice place but crap roads. Can't go a day without construction unfortunately.
That school is in pleasant garden North Carolina
No it’s not it’s in Erie pa
@@jaygas7566On Buffalo Road, right near Downing Ave.
I went there for a little bit
What's neat too now is they dont build schools like this one anymore.
Hey I used to go to that school and the project cost a football field we used to live in there I never
And theh do use the football field for other football practice for kids
The football field is owned by the nearby JFK center, there is also a great pool In the summer.
That was my old school
Briton is kinda big but there is bigger schools in erie
When I was a kid I went 2 Burton School did not have any good memories in that school never
I live in Erie and the football field is used for peewee football and flag football games
I went to school here!
if you ever make it to Clinton county buy my house is an abandon gas station off of interstate 80 going to lock have i think you should check it out been closed for a long time a lot left in it let me know if you can go there and i can give you direction i think there is still allot in side let me know if you want to check it out
One or more broke windows, look clean on the outside. Someone is watching this places. 😁😊😄😃
Erie school district uses it for storage. They also maintain the property well.
5:53 Ain’t All Politicians Douchebags
(Except Kane He Good)
Sorry I'm Back Bay have you ever been in the town of Erie is that okay Warner movie theater you said is
Is haunted my mother used to work in that movie theater and she never would want to go down in the basement I don't know if they let you go down there or whatever because they just renovated it Inn at 2 I could tell you then another never wanted to go down in that basement and won't she did one time and she wouldn't do it again without someone with her
You would be a guy that would love ghost hunting
Is it an old school
That was Roger young swimming pool across the street not a foot ball field
Originally there was the Roger Young Housing project that was constructed of rows of WWII army baracks. My family lived on the bottom of A drive and moved to the top of the project on Downing Ave. We were the last to move out. Roger Young was a WWII soldier who was partially blind and deaf, who after being given an order to retreat, went back in to save his comrades and was shot a number of times during his heroic effort, before being killed.
The smaller, older section of Burton was to the left and was constructed of red sandstone. Carved above the main door was established 1893 and Public School No. ____? The newer section to the right was built in 1923 and constructed of red brick! Heaven knows when the ugly grey cladding was added and windows reduced in size from their large picturesque view. Probably to insulate better. Attended from 1956 to 1962. Fond memories of my many friends growing up there. Mark Stanczyk
Thanks for the history. That's one thing I love about Erie...the history.
I briefly lived in that area in the 70's, attended Burton. At that young of an age, not many think about what you just shared.
It's greatly appreciated 😊
I wouldn’t be staying by the parking lot the po po he sitting there all the time
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the place is in like i said Clinton county pa
Nigga that’s in Erie Pa dumbass I used to live right down the street from that school
i going guess the power is for alarm system
Tony Thatcher More than likely. I can understand that.
I broke into that school about like 2 or 3 mouths ago cops came tho me and my friend ran
U told on yourself good job
Yo Man if your ever in Erie again and want to collaborate let me know I know a lot of abandon places here and stuff I’m a new TH-cam and I’m trying to make it as I’m writing this I got 38 views and only 8 subs in 3 days I’m trying to find people around this area
Love your vids man. Abandoned places have always fascinated me. But, when you talked about not wanting people to get you on the race card, and then go on to mention about the percentage of students....come on man. Could you not be more telling? Either way, love your vids. I will continue to enjoy them
shut up with that you want to keep it family friendly, you know what you want to say . #TrumpSupporter
Yawn. Go race bait somewhere else.
The schools in Erie have been consolidated into one School because of lack of funds due to corrupt Democratic leadership which drove industry out of Erie. The General Electric plant will be closing soon which will cause more exodus of the population. However, more Muslim refugees are scheduled to be sent to Erie. I was born in Erie in 1950 and it used to be a dirty industrial town. Now it's just "dirty".
Only a few schools combined not the whole district😆
@@thomasmiller5057 ok, thanks! I don't go up there very often and I only get "partial" word of what's happening.
You are Soo Correct!!!! When ever Someone wants to bring industry to Erie the Population has a Hissy Fit ! Saying Oh its Because of Erie's Industrial Past the Majority of the Population crys saying That's Why there is I High Cancer Rate ! It's just another way of the. DEMOCRATS TO KEEP THE POPULATION POOR and Continue to have the Majority of the Population voting for More Food Stamp Money 💰
@@lovetoronto7453 I agree! The Demoncraps gained a foothold through the unions back in the day when Erie became an industrial city. I worked at the GE plant for four years and hated the unions and after awhile when I realized I was supporting a political candidate of THEIR choice, I quit the union and was told by a union steward that if I ever needed help, the union would not back me. After four years I left and became a truck driver and again, I was in a union where my Uncle was a steward. That did not work out! To this day the Demoncraps still hold the throne of politics up there and the taxes are so high, I'm surprised anyone can survive! I now live in NC where there's very few unions. I've been here for 31 years and retired as a Jailer with the Sheriff's Department where a union tried to worm its way in there but nobody wanted it.