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Anonymous wrote:I agree 9:32. It is absolutely disgraceful. My kids go to a school with portables. Easy for you non-portable people (probably at BFES or DuFief or Wayside) to say it isn't a problem. We pay a lot in taxes to have schools held in buildings.

How do you look at yourself in the mirror, Starr??

Dufief has two portables.

They do not. They aren't even 80% capacity

Yes they do. You can see them in Google maps satellite.

Yes but that probably isn't related to overcrowding. The county is planning to tear down Dufief and rebuild it so they can zone more kids to that school.

What is the source of your information?

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Anonymous wrote:I agree 9:32. It is absolutely disgraceful. My kids go to a school with portables. Easy for you non-portable people (probably at BFES or DuFief or Wayside) to say it isn't a problem. We pay a lot in taxes to have schools held in buildings.

How do you look at yourself in the mirror, Starr??

Dufief has two portables.

They do not. They aren't even 80% capacity

Yes they do. You can see them in Google maps satellite.

Yes but that probably isn't related to overcrowding. The county is planning to tear down Dufief and rebuild it so they can zone more kids to that school.

really? Haven't heard that one. Where did you hear that? When is this supposed to be happening?

1-2 years. In country years 7-10yrs

Anonymous wrote:Do these portables have a window?
In some countries, though not our good U S of A, it's actually illegal to not provide natural light.

They do have windows, at least the ones I've been in.

Do these portables have a window?
In some countries, though not our good U S of A, it's actually illegal to not provide natural light.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree 9:32. It is absolutely disgraceful. My kids go to a school with portables. Easy for you non-portable people (probably at BFES or DuFief or Wayside) to say it isn't a problem. We pay a lot in taxes to have schools held in buildings.

How do you look at yourself in the mirror, Starr??

Dufief has two portables.

They do not. They aren't even 80% capacity

Yes they do. You can see them in Google maps satellite.

Yes but that probably isn't related to overcrowding. The county is planning to tear down Dufief and rebuild it so they can zone more kids to that school.

really? Haven't heard that one. Where did you hear that? When is this supposed to be happening?

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Anonymous wrote:I agree 9:32. It is absolutely disgraceful. My kids go to a school with portables. Easy for you non-portable people (probably at BFES or DuFief or Wayside) to say it isn't a problem. We pay a lot in taxes to have schools held in buildings.

How do you look at yourself in the mirror, Starr??

Dufief has two portables.

They do not. They aren't even 80% capacity

Yes they do. You can see them in Google maps satellite.

Yes but that probably isn't related to overcrowding. The county is planning to tear down Dufief and rebuild it so they can zone more kids to that school.

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Anonymous wrote:If we weren't cramming our schools with illegal aliens, we wouldn't need the trailers...

Not again. There are schools in the W clusters with hardly any, if at all, "illegals" that are overcrowded.

Yes 'again' (even though this is my first entry)! Because I'm not so privileged to live in the green pastures of the W's and snottily roll-icon eyes at those you feel contempt for. If you walked in my DC shoes you would see the extremely overcrowded schools and it doesn't take an Ivy League degree, a K street lawyer or a W-cluster pedigree to know the overcrowding is from illegal aliens. DS and I work hard to live in a house, pay taxes, to send children to school only to find they are treated as 2nd class citizens as all the resources are going to illiterate uneducated non English speaking non-citizens. We are surrounded by decaying over crowded homes, increasing gangs, loiterers and violence and a hospital whose ER is filled with illegal aliens getting free care so when DC has an emergency he sits in pain for 6 hours in the ER until he can be seen. Sorry I digress but your ignorance and arrogance is infuriating. Have the free loaders live in your W-cluster and then give me your eye roll you rich selfish puke. Sorry no W-cluster hoitee toitee language for you today, I'm out of patience to treat with respect those who fail to provide it to others.

Because at the Open House before school started, by 1st grader's teacher stated that children were not allowed to go inside to use the bathroom except at lunchtime, had no access to water, either for drinking or for washing hands (and therefore she would be not be doing any special projects that involved crafts with her students), and that the wood walkway and door step were rotted through, with no schedule for replacement, so students would have to walk around the back of the portables, through the mud/dirt/rain to get into the school.
Also, the portables reflected significant overcapacity at the school which was evidenced by the fact that the lunchroom could not accommodate all students in the time allotted for lunch, the library didn't have enough books for the student population, and the art/music rooms didn't have enough room for the multiple classes that were required to "double up" for special ed classes.

Anonymous wrote:If we weren't cramming our schools with illegal aliens, we wouldn't need the trailers...

Not again. There are schools in the W clusters with hardly any, if at all, "illegals" that are overcrowded.

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Anonymous wrote:New schools cost money and take a long time. Portables are the county's way of keeping class sizes small when they can't build a new school right now. The alternative is not a shiny new school every time enrollment goes up a little. The alternative is classes of 40 kids because you don't have enough classrooms.

Most people aren't complaining about the portables per se, but what they represent. If we're talking about a couple of portables while the county does studies to determining feasibility of an expansion, that's one thing. But when you've got schools that are running 145% overcapacity and using 7 portables with class sizes running to 28+ per ES class, with six lunch shifts (first one starting at 10:45 and the last one starting at 1:15) -- and the long-awaited addition will still leave the school overcapacity and there are large new developments in the works within the school's catchment that the county will ignore until potentially hundreds of new families have already moved in and are enrolling their children...that's all evidence of poor planning.

I'm glad to see that somebody here gets it. The County Council is the entity that approves new development BTW. If more people in MoCo understood this and voted accordingly, the development wouldn't be so out of hand and less schools would be over capacity.