The kids notice, trust me.

Our school has the low end ones and uncovered walkways. Not to mention the trailers cannot be secured and are right next to a walking path.

It's a safety issue.

Kids don't care. That's what matters.

Anonymous wrote:Stinks for bad weather (all the trips outside), access to restrooms, and in some cases, climate control. Inconvenient, but not unworkable. Get used to them, they are FCPS's "solution" to capacity issues.

+1 this. but if your child goes to a good school chances are he/she will spend at least part of the elementary school years in a trailer.

I don't have any problems with the trailers themselves. The feel a lot like how I went to school in CA -- all the classrooms opened to the outdoors and we had covered walkways to get to different parts of the school. The ones I've been in are clean, well lit, and have as much space as a regular classroom.

The problem with trailers is that they often mean losing recreation space and a school that is so overcrowded as to need trailers doesn't have sufficient common spaces like gym and cafeteria

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Anonymous wrote:Its a conundrum. all the highly rated schools have trailers due to demand and all the low rated schools have less trailers because FFX gives more teachers if you can't speak english or are poor.

Not true. I work at an overcrowded title 1 school that has lots of trailers and pods.

Our Title 1 school isn't overcrowded by we've had trailers for at least 8 years. Until this year, 5th and 6th grades were out there. Today, we learned 3-4th grades are out there because there are more students in 6th grade this year and the classrooms in the regular building are larger. The trailers have bathrooms and each room has windows that let in natural light. Some of the classrooms in the main building have no windows.

Anonymous wrote:Its a conundrum. all the highly rated schools have trailers due to demand and all the low rated schools have less trailers because FFX gives more teachers if you can't speak english or are poor.

Not true. I work at an overcrowded title 1 school that has lots of trailers and pods.

It’s the teacher that matters most. Good teachers make good use of the space they are given.

Anonymous wrote:Sad that our children must be in trailers.

It's really not, aside from those situations where the trailers take up play space. It may not be ideal as a long term solution, but in the scheme of things it isn't sad.

Sad that our children must be in trailers.

Anonymous wrote:Do most have bathrooms?

The Arlington ones do.

Do most have bathrooms?

I think they are fine. No complaints.

Kids like them (unless there's something triggering asthma (IME, the inside/outside is usually the culprit, not the trailers themselves)); parents freak out.

My son has asthma. He had a hard time in the ones at McKinley (but maybe it was really the weather going in and out).

They are generally safe and warm.

Don't think about leaving any food overnight in them.