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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]oh me too me too.  I am gobsmacked that they are willing to toss out everything in order to avoid moving.  e.g. let's build 1000 person elementary schools- that 750 cap is just silly.  We don't need no playground space- let's put kindergartners in sky scrapers with another 1500 kids- just so we don't need to move.[/quote]

You jest but why do all Arlington elementary schools need to be 2-3 story structures? Yes, K and PreK should go to school on ground floor for legal and safety reasons. But why can't you have 5th grade classes say on the 5th floor of a building? Heck, you can put a playground on the roof (with high fenced in areas and astroturf)? Arlington is an urbanized county. So it's not unreasonable to have some "non-traditional" schools that are taller so we don't have the issue of not enough seats when we're only considering 2-3 story "traditional" buildings.[/quote]

VA school building guidelines all for pre-k, K, 1st grade to be on egress level as well as all self-contained special ed classrooms.  I have no problem building up and think that elementary schools should be 2-3 stories instead of 1.  That being said- once you have all that needs to be done on the ground level on the ground level- with the corresponding footprint- there is not much need to build up to much.[/quote]

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