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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over the past decade our school is gone from capacity to 20 something percent over capacity. It's really overcrowded. I wish more people would on enroll. They're just not building all these new schools like Woodward fast enough to deal with all the growth. I saw an ad from Blair the other day saying he wanted to build 30,000 more affordable housing units. All I could think about was do we have schools for all those new students?[/quote]

During the pandemic, our W school brought in a bunch of portables. I guess because of the projected enrollment.  They have sat empty for two years.[/quote]

W's get all the resources.[/quote]

You do realize each portable costs about $80,000 plus the cost of installation? And you do realize that portables have a history of growing mold that affects the health of teachers and students?

Such a waste. The money would have been better used fixing the HVAC in the school.[/quote]

The HVAC has nothing to do with portables.  The portables are about space and [b]$80K isn't bad for the price[/b].  [/quote]
 
MCPS is wasting over $80K a unit that isn't even in use? I hope that's reported to the Maryland IG.

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Did they use it at one point?[/quote]

What point would that have been? No need during FY21 because of online learning then hybrid learning the last quarter.  They are not being used this year. So no, they have not been used for the two years they have been in place.

BTW the HVAC system is notoriously breaking down. Some classrooms are saunas while others are freezing. The lack of air filtration isn’t great when COVID is a problem in the school. Classes have about 32 students per class so more teachers (including substitutes when teachers are in quarantine) are all things money would be better spent on.[/quote]

The HVAC systems at many schools have always had this issue.  This isn't anything new which is why many are upset that they spent the covid money on everything but school repairs.[/quote]

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