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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll give MCPS the benefit of the doubt when I see some efforts to make things better for students at overcrowded schools.  I guess you don't care because your snowflake goes to CSES and does not have to worry about a portable. [/quote]

My snowflake does not go to CSES.

What is worrisome about a portable? I am asking sincerely.[/quote]

Security for one thing.  To get into the main building, you have to be buzzed in.  To get into a portable, you just have to walk through any open area of the school grounds.  Most of the schools around here are not fenced.  You can get on the grounds very easily.  They leave the portable doors unlocked.

If there was ever a shelter in place due to a tornado, those portables are not very safe.   The kids would have to leave the portable to go into the main building.   I've actually never lived through a tornado, but the thought of my DC having to go outside to get into a main building when there is an imminent tornado around kind of scares me.

The other issue is the bathroom issue.  To get into the main building at my DC's school, you need a keycard, even from the back of the building.  Many a times kids have gone to the bathroom without the key card, only to have to go back (and in some cases the portable isn't that close to the main building) to get the keycard.  It's not a huge issue, but it's a pain.

It's also very noisy in the portables when other classes are on the playground.  My DC said it was really loud and hard to hear the teacher and concentrate.  And along those lines, the six portable buildings in my DC's school takes up valuable blacktop space.  When the grass is wet, they are only allowed to play on the black top.  There is so little room left on the blacktop that they have to split the kids up, one group can play on the blacktop and the other group has to go in the front of the school where the buses stop.  And because it's the front of the school and there is a street there, they are not allowed to play with balls.  So, when they play out front, they have no balls, no play structures, nothing.  They can play tag sure, but it does limit what they can do.  And it's really not safe.  How do you have one or two adults supervise a hundred kids out front?   There is a SN kid in my DC's class. This kid has run off away from the group during recess a couple of times.

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