"Bursting at the seams"

Dr Lewis tells us the elementary schools are "bursting at the seams". If you don't believe him, well, look at the portables around each facility.

What he DOESN'T like to point out is that he has an alternative.

In May this year he was upfront about it with Herb Booth of the Dallas Morning News in this interview:

" In the meantime, Dr Lewis said the current fourth-grade center, the former Lancaster High School East Campus for freshmen, could be used in the fall as an overflow elementary school or as a sixth-grade center for the middle school."


But in fact, now that fall has arrived and the district needs seats, the East Campus is sitting empty.

Why?

It seems to be about the seams. If the East Campus were in use, we wouldn't need portables. If we didn't need portables, we wouldn't seem to be bursting at the seams. And if we weren't bursting at the seams, we wouldn't vote for the upcoming tax increase.