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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And how tone deaf is it to say that Discovery kids can't lose their fields, so APS would put more trailers at McKinley (the school who already has no field)??[/quote]

Discovery. Does. Not. Have. Fields.

Moron.[/quote]

So we can have elementary schools without fields?  Discovery has no green space?[/quote]

That is correct. Discovery's portion of the parcel has its building, two playgrounds (one for the preschool, one for the rest of the elementary school) and a parking lot. Its only green space is the steep, narrow hill between the school/playground and the street. The turf soccer fields are fenced off from the school and while the parcel is all owned by APS, they have some kind of lease agreement with the county for the fields so APS is limited as to what they can do with them (i.e., they can't put trailers on them and take them out of use).[/quote]

I am confused because it seems like the Discovery students are on the soccer fields during the school day?[/quote]

Shhh!  Don’t tell people that. [/quote]

See 10:13.[/quote]

Discovery uses the fields without line of site to the school but can't use the trailers on the tennis courts?  We are not talking about putting trailers on the fields, just using the existing ones.  [/quote]

The access gate to fields facing the parking lot is line-of-sight to the main entrance. The Wiliamsburg trailers are on a different part of the parcel that is not line-of-sight, there is a brick wall between them.

I know you want to believe I'm making this all up, but go look at the Facilities Optimization study completed just this past summer. APS says very explicitly that Discovery can take no trailers (nor can Abingdon, Fleet or Reed, this is not some special Discovery-only exception). If you can convince them to change their minds on this, go right ahead. Posting here won't do that, though. Maybe you should sign up to speak at Thursday's school board meeting to raise the issue.[/quote]

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