BREAKING NEWS – Burlington, Vermont – A closed-down Macy’s department store has been given new life as a high school in Vermont.
Burlington High School reopened for in-person learning inside the unconventional venue on March 4, several months after the school’s usual facilities, at 52 Institute Road, were shuttered in fall 2020 after PCB contamination was detected by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation.
Now students who have opted in to the school’s hybrid learning program are able to get in-person instruction a few days per week in a space that’s clean and interesting to look at, Interim Principal Lauren McBride told Fox News.
“This new school is absolutely perfect,” gleefully explained McBride. “This place is not unfamiliar to the students, because as I understand, a good portion of them came to Macy’s on a regular basis to do their shoplifting.”