Schools as Bricks and Morter

"And throughout the country, as large failing high schools are replaced with small ones and independently run charters, the days when a school was defined by its building, with its principal as mayor, are starting to go the way of the slide rule and the card catalog". ~ Appeared in an article entitled Looking for Common Ground as More Schools Share a Roof, by Elissa Gootman in the The New York Times, Sunday, December 21st, 2008