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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]

Where do you start?  It is a trailer.  They stay outside and get moved around from school to school.  Issues of mold, no locks, bad weather, right next to blacktop areas for recess, leaving in rain/snow to get to class, swarming bees building nests in the deck wood, must take a friend with you to the bathroom etc....

Then add the fact that they take away large areas of recess blacktop for kids so they have to stay indoors if it is wet out.  They also don't have the indoor facilities like cafeteria tables, printers, teacher's lounge, etc... to maintain the amount of kids/staff that are actually included in the school numbers.  Our ES school has 5 cafeteria times.  The earliest is 10:30am.  Ridiculous.

Then the amount of money to maintain them, build decks on school grounds to get to them, clean them out yearly, move them if needed, and more I probably don't even know about.

To see schools close to the overcrowded school (Dufief next to RC, CS next to RP) is such a slap in the face.  No school wants to be so under-enrolled that you lose good teachers yearly, can't get enough parental support, cut back enriching programs because of lack of kids - all while schools near you are so overfilled they are bursting at the seams.  MCPS needs to re-look at things.  It doesn't have to be a huge costly study and boundary line changeover but allow families in neighboring developments the OPTION to drive their kid to a lower enrolled school when their school is over-enrolled.  They apply thru lottery, the principals decide.   Done.  [/quote]

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