But we could fix it, if we tried, all together.
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.
you ever tried to get around USA?
That’s my point. You build everything around cars like of there wasn’t anything else. I’m Canadian and we’re not muxh better, but you wouldn’t see a school like that here, and I didn’t need a car until my 30s.
Yes, and it’s ridiculous. American car culture is a mental illness.
Yes, Some places are halfway decent to get around, even smaller places, but usually only either in the east or maybe on the West Coast and then generally historic neighbourhoods as building new places that are not utterly hostile to humans is generally illegal nowadays in most places.
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.
Thanks. I had done half the research and ended up in the opposite resolution.
So yeah, a new-ish free charter school using an existing older building. The older building had the freeway built around it but for some reason hadn’t been demolished
for some reason hadn’t been demolished
Either the community or the owners pushed to save it, I’m not entirely clear myself.
Also, why in the fuck did they need such a grand exit ramp? Both sides of the road have plenty of easement. the other side of the road is just open. There’s space in the bridge for at least 2 more lanes if they change up the tunnel walls. would bring it to 7 lanes.
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.
tar wars
If you are going to treat children like this, just don’t have them.
You’re blaming the parents for a nation that has built its pride on paving over paradise?
Initial D vibes intensify
Multi track learning!
i went and looked it up just now. they have a tour on their website and the first picture, of the front door, has a big sign that’s half fallen down. jesus. the next two pictures aren’t any better. and there’s a 3d tour.
US roads are like Mad Max to me. Insane urban planning. They drive like maniacs. Statistically many of them are carrying guns.
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 student body skin color is visible from space.
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.
“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.
“hello sunshine” on a square meter of plastic grass carpet in a class in a basement without windows
I think it looks pretty nice
*For reference, in high school, my history teacher played us a video about some of the oldest and most out of date, worst schools in Ohio, and I spent a few years at one of the main schools mentioned in the feature.
You’ll never guess the skin color of the kids we put in there.
