[Vision2020] The History of Moscow High School

[Donovan Arnold]

I read Mr. Weisel’s opinion in the DN the other day. I really liked that guy 
when I was in school. Most people did. But I was surprised when he said the 
school was built in 1936. I would tend to think that a government and 
history teacher would get that one right. Construction began on the High 
School in 1939. Moscow used state funds to build it. In 1939 the Idaho State 
Legislature passed a state wide levy tax in which the revenues were to be 
used only for education. Since Moscow only had two schools it build a third. 
Moscow would not have been able to afford a new high school all on its own 
back in 1939. In 1936 Idaho was receiving the fourth largest amount of money 
from FDR’s Public Works Administration (PWA). However, very little of that 
money was used for education purposes in Idaho like it was in other states 
in the west. I believe that Moscow should do what previous residents had 
done, wait for federal or state assistance to build a new building.

Take Care,

Donovan J Arnold