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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New schools cost money and take a long time. Portables are the county's way of keeping class sizes small when they can't build a new school right now. The alternative is not a shiny new school every time enrollment goes up a little. The alternative is classes of 40 kids because you don't have enough classrooms.[/quote]

Most people aren't complaining about the portables per se, but what they represent.  If we're talking about a couple of portables while the county does studies to determining feasibility of an expansion, that's one thing.  But when you've got schools that are running 145% overcapacity and using 7 portables with class sizes running to 28+ per ES class, with six lunch shifts (first one starting at 10:45 and the last one starting at 1:15) -- and the long-awaited addition will still leave the school overcapacity and there are large new developments in the works within the school's catchment that the county will ignore until potentially hundreds of new families have already moved in and are enrolling their children...that's all evidence of poor planning.[/quote]

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