Hard to say goodbye
During her visit to the campus last week, she returned to the school s playground where she remembered being terrified to climb the steel jungle gym, which still stands today. She recalled that instead of hesitating, she climbed the bars and carried herself across the tall threshold, proving herself to her fellow classmates.
“I felt something come over me,” Ogilvie-McClain said. “I am at the end of this road, and I don’t want it to end. My heart does not want to say goodbye. I think back over the years, so many of our friends have gone but God had left me for a purpose. They can never replace this building.”
The Daily Herald
The Maury County Board of Education is moving forward with a plan to sell the historic McDowell Elementary School property.
The elementary school, the longest continually operating campus in the county, will shut its doors at the end of this school year with a plan of transferring students and educators to other campuses across the district.
The plan follows the board s September 2020 decision to close the campus, which has accrued more than $5 million in needed repairs to keep the facility open for the coming school year and a total of $29 million over the course of the next decade.