Safety in Portable Classrooms

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Q: "But if there is no room in the schools then what options are there besides portables?"
A: stop spending capital dollars on stuff like artificial turf football fields and use the money to expand brick-and-mortar school buildings.
Stop giving away capital assets (like the Berman school building), make them pay market price for it or redistrict and make use of existing capacity.
Mark Twain School (now the Ewing center) could be used to take excess enrollment at nearby schools.
MCPS does very poor capital planning and enrollment projections. That's one reason we have portables.

$11 million for artificial turf fields at 19 high schools.

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2015/Board-of-Education-to-Move-Ahead-With-Artificial-Turf-Plans-in-Approved-Capital-Budget/

$22 million for the revitalization/expansion of 1 elementary school.

http://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/A4RK8L4EB08C/$file/Award%20Cont%20Wayside%20ES%20Rev%20Exp.pdf

Now, what were you saying?

[Anonymous]

At my DDS' school, the fifth graders are in the portables. She said they were brought inside to the main building and allowed to watch a movie.

[Anonymous]

No school in the Churchill or Whitman cluster has portables. The rest of the county is exposed while those clusters are protected in their gleaming new facilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No school in the Churchill or Whitman cluster has portables. The rest of the county is exposed while those clusters are protected in their gleaming new facilities.

Bannockburn ES has 2 portables and was last renovated/modernized in 1988. Burning Tree ES has 4 portables and was last renovated/modernized in 1991. Now, what were you saying?

[Anonymous]

The county weeps for the conditions at Burning Tree ES.

[Anonymous]

A building can never provide sufficient protection against a gunman. I send my child to school everyday in a bulletproof vest. A small price to pay for our right to bear arms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The county weeps for the conditions at Burning Tree ES.

There's moving the goal posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just sheltered in place with my child--was visiting the class--in a portable. The teacher locked the doors and closed the blinds so you couldn't see inside. Can't say I felt completely safe, but the kids seem to understand the process.

"The kids seem to understand the process" is a sad statement.

I'm a teacher. My kids "understand the process", in that they know when they hear those words on the loud speakers the blinds are closed, and recess is indoors. They know to ask "is it the type where we stay away from the windows?" but they don't "understand" or need to "understand" beyond "The principal says to do this".

Today one of my kids said "It must not be a tornado because we aren't in the hallway. Maybe a lot of rain?" I didn't correct them.

My kindergartener has told me lock down drills are in case a bad guy gets in and shoots them. Kids talk to each other, and a lot of them have older siblings. It's heartbreaking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No school in the Churchill or Whitman cluster has portables. The rest of the county is exposed while those clusters are protected in their gleaming new facilities.

LIAR
Do you teach your kids to spread hateful lies like this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree and had the same fears, particularly on a day like today. Must be nice for the W schools that don't have portables. Damn you, Governor Hogan, for cutting school funding and making our kids stay in these damn portables.

What an idiot. The Board of Education has been keeping students in portables for decades. Are you paid to write stupid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No school in the Churchill or Whitman cluster has portables. The rest of the county is exposed while those clusters are protected in their gleaming new facilities.

Potomac ES has portables and a broken down ramshackle building that hasn't been renovated in 40 years.

Please try to stop talking out your ass.

[Anonymous]

Baloney. I've been to Potomac ES - pretty nice compared to several other ES's I have visited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No school in the Churchill or Whitman cluster has portables. The rest of the county is exposed while those clusters are protected in their gleaming new facilities.

LIAR
Do you teach your kids to spread hateful lies like this?

oh people, there is a w cluster troll that always posts stupid things like this. Stop responding to these posts. FWIW, we are not in a W cluster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baloney. I've been to Potomac ES - pretty nice compared to several other ES's I have visited.

Potomac ES at a glance: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02601.pdf

Last renovated/modernized in 1976. 5 relocatable classrooms (aka portables).

[Anonymous]

are the portables at Potomac ES used as waiting rooms for butlers and weekday nannies?