Heritage High School- Too Close to Home?

The new high school being built comes with tricks up its' sleeves

By: Samantha Bonaiuto

The Bear Truth Reporter

As the ground broke for Palm Bay's future new high school, no one really thought twice about what the consequences of this new endeavor would hold for Bayside students. But as the first semester comes steadily to a close, the time is rapidly shortening for some incoming and current freshmen in regards to their place at Bayside.

The new school, given the name Heritage High, will open it's freshly painted doors in the 2009-2010 school year. Students currently attending Southwest, enrolled in the eighth grade, who are in the zoned area for Heritage will be place in this school next year, instead of the usual choice of Bayside. This holds true for certain freshman meeting the same stipulations on zoning. Instead of coming back here next year, some will be plucked from their friends, classes and usual routine that is Bayside and placed in Heritage. But is this really fair?

“I would hate to come to this big high school, finally get used to everything and then be put into another high school and have to start all over again!” commented junior Rachel Rosolino.

“Sure, I feel bad for those kids that will be relocated but, at the end of the day, think of it this way-They get to go to a whole new school with brand new everything: books, desks, teachers, food. A part of me wants to join them,” explains senior Yazmin Willingham.

Willingham does bring up a good point. With the high school barely letting the paint dry before opening up its doors to new students, a fresh, new school is something that Palm Bay hasn't seen in more than ten years. Bayside is the youngest school in the area, enrolling students in 1998.

“I think that it would awesome to be able to say that you were the first graduating class f a new school. That was you...all you,” quotes junior Jesse Goldsmith.

At the end often day, incoming freshman and sophomores better not get to comfortable. Their bottoms may be plucked from their warm seats and place into a newly manufactured one among the cow pastures that is south Malabar road.