I wonder if this is actually a genius trick to deter mass shootings? Someone should check if the number of shootings at this location is below the national average.
I’m old and I still get surprise by how USA is addicted to cars.
If you are going to treat children like this, just don’t have them.
Initial D vibes intensify
Multi track learning!
The building looks like a shithole because it was created in the 50s for children’s use. They designed it to be indestructible.
1956, 31,827sqft, constructed as the Dayton Boys (& Girls) Club featuring a gym and indoor swimming pool. Famously spared from demolition when the U.S. 35 highway interchange was routed around it.
Moved to New Choices Community School, grades 7- 12, in 2000.
Property sold in 2006 for almost half a million
Dayton SMART Elementary School is established in the building, serving grades K–6.
The staff can’t even manage a fucking star wars quote
May the force will be with you? CTFO
That appears to be something they purchased to hang up, likely the cheapest one they could find, which was a knock off from temu
It looks like they combined it with
The Force will be with you. Always.
The A is centered and there’s no room for always, so if you’re saying they mixed it up, that’s a pretty bad mix up.
tar wars
Public education disparity in America is crazy. I had a good upbringing, I was an only child and both my parents had full time jobs. The only time I can really remember feeling jealous about seeing something someone else had an opportunity as when they were a kid was when I went to a performance at Milton High School. It’s a public highschool in Georgia and genuinely looked nicer than the college I went to. While I was in highschool, we had more trailers* outside than classrooms inside.
And I know that with a global perspective I still did have a very privileged education, but like the OP says, when we’re talking about what “the richest country on earth” is doing, it just doesn’t add up. It’s not like I wasn’t aware my highschool was shitty, even while I was there I knew it was, because we’d go to other ones for various events. But even the nicest ones I saw, that one still felt an order of magnitude nicer. A lot of it had to do with the performance. The school had some sort of partnership with Cirque de Solel (no idea how to spell it, and also I may have misunderstood and it wasn’t actually a partnership and just a play that they originally made). Seeing a fully packed, massive auditorium for a highschool performance that also involved acrobatics was just crazy. The arts are always underfunded, so I can only imagine how nice everything else was at this school. It’s basically in the wealthiest area of my state.
*: People outside the US or certain parts of the US might not know what this refers to. It’s like a mobile classroom (compared to a permanent structure, lol, same way a “mobile home” is “mobile”). These were used because the population growth in the area outpaced school constitution. So instead of building a new school which takes long, just throw trailers at the problem. But my highschool genuinely did have more trailers outside than rooms inside.
And just to reiterate, this was a public highschool. We should be investing more in our future by investing in education, both college and k12.
The cafeteria in question
Holy cow you can hear the fluorescents buzzing just looking at it.
I really often wonder if school architects and prison architects are the same people. Both are cruel, deliberate, human containment pens made of concrete and steel.
Yes. Architects who design schools also design prisons. And the designs have a lot of similarity.
In the US the school districts are primarily for containment, then for indoctrination, then for edification.
Note that this changed momentarily after Sputnik and America decided it needed to get into gear. And the current Republican push to dismantle public education systems entirely are reactionary to that, since a lot of that generation dared to question authority.
I really often wonder if school architects and prison architects are the same people
Jester Dorms on the UTexas Austin campus were famously built by the state’s biggest prison contractor, by the same name.
Looks like a set from Squid Games
Damn. Imagine going to school in two backroom levels at once.
That actually looks shockingly like my elementary schools cafeteria, which was in the basement level and everything. (Although the rest of my school was fine and not enveloped by some hellish highway on ramp)
They have a virtual tour of the inside of the building, if you’d like to get really depressed.
I have seen better fallout shelters, yikes.
“hello sunshine” on a square meter of plastic grass carpet in a class in a basement without windows
“NBA ALL STARS” “Never been absent”
So like kids that come to school sick and shit, or had a death in the family.
I hated awards and prizes for this crap. In my high school the best attendance got the first pick of assigned parking spots.
Excused absences don’t count toward this award. At least not in any of the schools my daughters have attended.
The administration grades the schools on attendance.
Our school does not count excused absences against you. obviously their/your MMV
Technically, it’s still a fucked up metric, but if they don’t curb it at the school level, it’s a lot harder to do it at the state/parent level.
Parents have a pretty strong incentive to keep kids home rather than pay for daycare/neighbors/family to help. They’re using the kids to wage the war.
First floor feels like an asylum. Second is alright.
You’ll never guess the skin color of the kids we put in there.
Just think of the pollution. The air, surrounded by heavy car traffic on all sides, must be outright toxic, never mind the noise, that maybe can be handled by very good windows (which I am not sure that building has).
The maybe craziest thing here might be that there is a safe underpass leading to the sidewalk of a much less terrifying street (the remnants of a main street, ravaged by neglect and car oriented developments), than that highway exit curve but it appears to be locked and blocked. I might be wrong but that doesn’t look like a path accessible to pupils or their parents.
This is some I just learned how to play cities skylines bullshit
Once again our city is expanding! On our way to becoming a #metropolis
I drive past that school pretty often. I always forget it is a school, it looks more like a truck depot from the outside.
Dayton Public Schools have tons of hard to solve problems. Its test scores are bad. Parent Involvement is nonexistent. The state forcing the system to give bussing priority to private school students. A corrupt School board that was caught buying every student a hoodie that they couldn’t wear to school because it violates dresscode.
A series of failed levees partially because of the corruption, partially because Dayton is an Automotive rust belt town. Several of Library’s in the city close when school lets out because Students would leave school and start fights at the library.
Its test scores are bad.
And being located there is not gonna help with that.
The crosswalk to the school CROSSES A FREAKING OFF-RAMP!!!
Edit after some research: The street the ramp comes off of has a speed limit of 35mph (55kph), and the crosswalk is metered, so it could be worse
