On 11/07/09, Flacka wrote:
> When they built our new K wing nobody asked the teachers what
> they wanted/needed so be very glad that you are able to be
> involved in the process.
>
> The great thing they did was put a nice big store room between
> the 2 rooms and put up floor to ceiling metal shelves to
store
> all of our "stuff". We have tons of storage in the room, in
>
In our new school: We have 2 BBoards....one is so high I have to
stand on a chair to reach it. We do not have one single bookshelf.
We have a TV but it is almost to the ceiling and faces in a way
that there is always a glare. It has a VCR not DVD grr.
Only 4 electric outlets in the whole room and one is in a spot
TOTALLY useless/behind a door. We do have air conditioning (I am in
Mississippi) but it is controlled in a town 300 miles away. I have
my windows open half the time. We have lots of teacher cupboard
space, which is nice but takes away a lot..no wall space at all to
hang up anything. We have lockers with doors on them which I hate
and only 15, so the kids have to share. Can't wait for the usual
lice epidemic. Our rooms are painted a kind of urine (sorry!)
color....not warm and inviting except for the fact that it makes
the kids always have to pee. Speaking of, we share 2 one use
bathroom with 3 other Kindergartens..what were they thinking when
they built this. We had no say in it as our fearles leaders think
they know all. And they don't . They are stupid. But this very low
income community, and I mean LOW think the school is a beautiful
treasure and it has created a lot of pride. At least no one is
using the playground for a meth lab.....yet.

fact too much and it takes up all of our wall space. They put in
> large shallow drawers that I thought were a huge waste but they
> are great for storing large or long things like chart paper, big
> books, large bulletin board pieces, etc. We only have 1 window
> and it's above the counter for the computers so we have to climb
> up on the counter to open the window. Between the 2 rooms
is a
> bathroom that is shared. It's hard for 48 children to use
one
> bathroom so I stop at the community bathroom after lunch so we
> don't drag the bathroom thing out all afternoon and risk an
> accident. I wish it would have had 2 stalls or been 2
smaller
> bathrooms rather than 1 huge one. After they finished the rooms
> they came in and removed some of our white boards and mounted a
> Smartboard, which I love. Unfortunately they mounted too high
> for the kids to use it easily and because they did it after the
> fact, we now have about 12" of wall on either side which is
> useless. If you are getting a smartboard, try to get it mounted
> when the room is built or at least have them leave just the right
> amount of room for it

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