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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a current McKinley parent and I guess I don't really think this is a big deal, and that the parents are having a harder time with it than the kids will.

My child LOVED having gym in the trailer, and all the echoey sounds you could make with your voice in there.

The school dealt with space issues this year by making some specials classes "roaming" classes, so for example the kids might have Spanish or Art or Music in their own classrooms instead of going to a room dedicated to that subject.  It would not be an ideal long term plan, but for a year or two I don't see any negative effects on my child or his education.

My kid has never had class all year in a trailer, but my understanding is that the kids actually quite like the trailers.  It seems to build class unity and make you feel like you are your own special community, plus you can do whatever you want to the walls.  Again, I wouldn't want trailers as the long term plan (which is why they are doing this renovation/addition to the school in the first place), but as a temporary thing, it's fine.

I appreciate that in general McKinley is not full of spoiled people who are constantly asking for special treatment and privileges and not taking "more than our share."  When something is important -- like when Tuckahoe wanted to move two of its planning groups over so they could keep their neighborhood together even though that would have put McKinley at 110% capacity AFTER THE NEW ADDITION WAS ADDED -- we will talk reasonably to APS and get them to change their mind.  In this case we are talking about a three month delay of the main new construction, so three months of a trailer fleet.  I just don't think that's a big deal.  And if a new child was coming to the school over from Glebe or Tuckahoe, they might find the whole thing fun and again, sort of community building.  "Look we're all getting through this together."  If they waited to come until the following year, they would have missed out on that.

I don't think the parking is that big of a deal because there is quite a lot of street parking.

I just think all this complaining is very much a spoiled North Arlington mindset -- "MY CHILD SHALL NOT BE INCONVENIENCED BY TRAILERS" -- when you are coming from schools that already have fleets of trailers in their fields.  Maybe you just don't want to leave your home schools, and that's fair.  I wouldn't want to either, probably.  But we're all in this together, and we can get through it as a community.

The new school is going to be really, really beautiful.[/quote]

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