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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I ask a question I know I will get flamed for?

I fully appreciate the class overcrowding and impact on quality education that comes from classroom sizes being too small....a result of a teacher shortage.  Totally on board with that problem.

But what really is the quantifiable impact to quality of education (that outweighs the countervailing benefit) of a school needing to supplement the main building with portables?[/quote]

Portables just give you more classrooms, but they don't add to the common spaces which are still insufficient for the numbers of students now attending: the cafeteria, the media center, the hallways, the restrooms, the parking lot.[/quote]

Yes. So you have a cafeteria built for 300 kids, but 500 kids in the school. This means some kids are eating lunch at 10:30 and others not until 2:00. It's not great for anyone and impedes learning. It also means things like splitting the gym between 4 classes doing PE at the same time, and giving up recess space, which means kids don't get adequate exercise and are harder to teach.

Classrooms that would have been used for specials are used for grade-level classrooms as well, so art and music teachers are forced to teach from carts, which means kids are getting a worse education in those areas.

Finally, and it sucks that we have to consider this, but the portables are hard to secure in an emergency. [/quote]

All this.  Also some schools just don’t have the real estate to add portables without taking something else away.  Our ES has one portable already but I literally don’t know where they could fit another one- the parking lot is already relatively small. I guess it would go on the small field that kids run around on at recess.[/quote]

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