Anonymous
09/04/2013 10:33
Subject: Re:Anyone familiar with an MCPS policy on portable classrooms?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm in DC, and we have portables with bathrooms. Why doesn't MCPS invest in those. It seems like the answer to the biggest problem.
My kids' school (Viers Mill) had a bathroom portable. It was essentially a trailer with two bathrooms. My 4th grader said it got stinky, but that it was like a regular bathroom inside with stalls and a sink and everything. They finished the new addition to the building last year, so no more portables (finally!) but bathrooms and portables do co-exist, somewhere.
I don't love portables, but they are necessary and not worth getting worked up over, imo. At VM they had 4th and 5th grade, plus specials and I think some special ed teachers all out there. It seemed like there were more classrooms outside than inside! The kids needed a swipe card to get into the building, or there was an intercom with a camera if they didn't have the card.
As far as seeing someone with a weapon and increased danger--wouldn't the same danger exist for someone near the playground during recess? At least in portables, kids have a locking room to hide in.
My point was that at RHPS kids leave the trailer in pairs to go inside to use the bathroom or run other errands. At that time, they are unsupervised by any adult and can be approached by a stranger (which is easily done because the trailers are open to the street). At recess, the kids are supervised by adults.
Anonymous
09/04/2013 09:13
Subject: Anyone familiar with an MCPS policy on portable classrooms?
Anonymous wrote:At my kids school this year only K and first grades are in the school, everyone else, 2 thru 5 is in a portable! There are 20 of them! So I think a school's gotta do whatever it can to find space for everyone and if that means younger kids in portables, so be it.
That is just crazy! The leaders in your school system should be fired. or Tarred and Feathered.
Anonymous
09/03/2013 13:23
Subject: Re:Anyone familiar with an MCPS policy on portable classrooms?
Anonymous wrote:I'm in DC, and we have portables with bathrooms. Why doesn't MCPS invest in those. It seems like the answer to the biggest problem.
My kids' school (Viers Mill) had a bathroom portable. It was essentially a trailer with two bathrooms. My 4th grader said it got stinky, but that it was like a regular bathroom inside with stalls and a sink and everything. They finished the new addition to the building last year, so no more portables (finally!) but bathrooms and portables do co-exist, somewhere.
I don't love portables, but they are necessary and not worth getting worked up over, imo. At VM they had 4th and 5th grade, plus specials and I think some special ed teachers all out there. It seemed like there were more classrooms outside than inside! The kids needed a swipe card to get into the building, or there was an intercom with a camera if they didn't have the card.
As far as seeing someone with a weapon and increased danger--wouldn't the same danger exist for someone near the playground during recess? At least in portables, kids have a locking room to hide in.
Anonymous
09/03/2013 12:47
Subject: Re:Anyone familiar with an MCPS policy on portable classrooms?
Anonymous wrote:I'm in DC, and we have portables with bathrooms. Why doesn't MCPS invest in those. It seems like the answer to the biggest problem.
+1
Anonymous
08/26/2013 17:41
Subject: Re:Anyone familiar with an MCPS policy on portable classrooms?
I'm in DC, and we have portables with bathrooms. Why doesn't MCPS invest in those. It seems like the answer to the biggest problem.
Anonymous
08/26/2013 16:57
Subject: Anyone familiar with an MCPS policy on portable classrooms?
I have a 2nd grader in a portable and at the open house the teacher said children were not allowed to go into the school by themselves. She confirmed that this meant no bathroom use except the twice a day full class trips inside to use the bathrooms. Also no access to water (her words), so she asked parents for "all the wet ones you can possible provide".
I can't say I'm super concerned about safety, though I find it amazing that the system puts millions into all of these security technologies and procedures that don't have any impact on security for the portables. May I please have a portion of my tax dollars back, since my child isn't secured?
Can you tell how I feel about portables? Kind of how I feel about MCPS in general.
I can't say I'm super concerned about safety, though I find it amazing that the system puts millions into all of these security technologies and procedures that don't have any impact on security for the portables. May I please have a portion of my tax dollars back, since my child isn't secured?
Can you tell how I feel about portables? Kind of how I feel about MCPS in general.
Anonymous
08/26/2013 15:26
Subject: Anyone familiar with an MCPS policy on portable classrooms?
Some of the second graders at Rosemary Hills Primary School are in portables. The portables have been on site for a number of years (at least 5). There is no security in terms of a gate preventing outsiders from approaching the portables. I heard that several years ago (5+) there was an incident when several students saw a stranger with a knife on the opposite side of the fence from the portables. (A student and a mom verified this story for me when I heard it.) He could have easily come around to the portables. Kids in the portables leave the portables in pairs and go in to the main part of school to use the bathrooms.
The area where the portables are backs up onto the train tracks. IMO, this is not a very safe situation. There may be a camera, I don't know.
The area where the portables are backs up onto the train tracks. IMO, this is not a very safe situation. There may be a camera, I don't know.