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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elementary school principal here--
If you think that any administrator made the decision to put kids in a windowless room without angst, you are sadly mistaken. 17:58 makes it sound as if there are empty classrooms with windows and that all one should do is speak up to get kids out of the windowless classroom. Good luck with that.  I will bet my paycheck that the school is at or over capacity. It's very likely that classes were added in the last weeks of August when more students enrolled than was anticipated. I would also venture to guess that the school was built in the 1950s or 1960s and has not undergone a renovation within the past 10 years. I would invite you to sit down with the floor plan and figure where everyone should go keeping in mind the need for adequate space to learn and proximity to bathrooms.  Please share with the principal your plan for where every student can be in a classroom with windows. I'm sure he or she would be eternally grateful. [/quote]

17:58 here, I shared my plan previously -- rotate the kids every __ weeks so that no one set of kids has to be in windowless classroom all year. I believe another PP indicated such a plan is already in place at another school. I certainly never said I don't think decisions are made without angst, but I do think there have to be contributions and sometimes push from parents to come up with creative solutions.

I would also welcome solutions/input from others -- I don't think my ideas are the best or the only solution, but the thought process has to be started and some compromise that does not unduly affect one set of kids needs to be found.

It's great that you would invite parent input and participation![/quote]

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