{"id":7103,"date":"2016-04-18T10:15:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2016-04-15T00:16:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T05:16:19","slug":"p-is-for-pilot-mound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/p-is-for-pilot-mound\/","title":{"rendered":"P is for Pilot Mound"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OLYMPUSJune 4, 2014: <\/strong>The Pilot Mound school was built in 1920. The middle window says “Garage Sale May 31, 8:00-?”.<\/em><\/p>\n

A reorganization vote between the Grand (Boxholm\/Pilot Mound) and Ogden school districts failed in November 1984<\/a>.\u00a0Had the vote succeeded, Grand would have been absorbed into Ogden and the name would have remained Ogden.* Instead, at the end of that school year, Grand High School graduated its last class and became a K-6 district, sending older students to Ogden. The Pilot Mound school was in use until at least that year but likely closed then. Movement was made again toward a merger in 1993-94, this time with the Ogden-Grand name, but it didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

In 2000, Grand ended its sharing agreement with Ogden and went in with Southeast Webster instead (the switch is the reason for this open-enrollment case<\/a>). That courtship was relatively fast, with reorganization five years later. The combined Southeast Webster-Grand started sharing with Prairie Valley in 2014. (The beginning of that whole-grade sharing agreement was the B-plot, if you will, of the Des Moines Register<\/em>‘s “Lost Schools” series\/documentary.)<\/p>\n

*”Ogden’s Bernard Lewiston said he felt it would be expensive to change athletic uniforms, signs and other items on which Ogden is written.” Ogden Reporter<\/em>, Aug. 15, 1984.<\/a> Details like these matter when a community is faced with losing a school. (It’s weird that the Ogden Reporter<\/em> has three random years from the 20th century archived, but I’ll take what I can get.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 4, 2014: The Pilot Mound school was built in 1920. The middle window says “Garage Sale May 31, 8:00-?”. A reorganization vote between the Grand (Boxholm\/Pilot Mound) and Ogden school districts failed in November 1984.\u00a0Had the vote succeeded, Grand … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools","category-sequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7111,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions\/7111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}