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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Discovery got a new playground because it was a NEW school. Just like Fleet will get a new playground. APS replaces playgrounds about every 20 years.

The slide was a stupid gimmick proposed by the architects and isn’t even used![/quote]

Discovery is a perfect example of inequities but no one cares about that one.  They only care about what Science Focus has because of capacity challenges.  Why on earth they didn't make that one an option school is beyond me.  Is it right that some schools like Discovery have 5x the playground space than other schools (all much nicer and newer), 2 brand new huge state of the art Art Rooms?  No, it's not equitable but no one bothers to go after their "nice things" because the school was built in an area where we do not need seats.  Those short-sided approaches have to stop.  We can't afford to keep making school siting mistakes.  [/quote]

Discovery does not have 5x the playground space other schools have (and their playground space doesn't have contiguous green space, so playing options at recess are limited). The other poster is correct that Discovery has more structures because it had to work in narrow bands right along the building that didn't allow for the installation of one of the larger types of climbing structures that have been installed at other elementaries in the past ten years. Instead they had to do more smaller structures.[/quote]

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