Suffolk relishes refurbishment of school building

Can anyone deny the inseparable relation between education and infrastructure? No one perhaps! An efficient infrastructure that comprises educational buildings, in short, schools or colleges, along with all modern amenities and other necessary factors play crucial roles in the proper development of a student. This is the fundamental requirement throughout the world, irrespective of affluent or impoverished nations. However, there is also another aspect. The necessity of proper school buildings apposite for the modern educational scenario should be realized by the community leaders first and you have to come to Suffolk, if you want to have a glimpse of the success of this realization.

Suffolk is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads area of eastern Virginia. On the basis of geography, it is the largest of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads, and the largest independent city in land-area in the entire Commonwealth. Though the region has been having a standard educational scenario, the previous East Suffolk High was in a disconsolate position. Reason? The school happened to be the emblem of segregated education in Suffolk once but later it became the insignia of anguishes of the local African-American community. There was also an alumni association (that is operating still) that had the noble desire to restore the lost pride of the school but without any belonging.

Nevertheless, the same association, it must be affirmed, has been solely responsible for the refurbishment. What you can find these days is a new feather in the city life in the form of an improved school building. The whole dimension is changed and consists of old school and an 8,500-square-foot addition that houses a gymnasium with basketball and volleyball courts. There is also the presence of new fitness equipment, computers, pool tables and meeting space in the building that are necessary for the fullest development of an individual.

This is required more, perhaps, for black students, who continue to get harassed, though not constitutionally but intrinsically.