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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idea how to spell it, and also I may have misunderstood and it wasn't actually a partnership and just a play that they originally made).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.
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.
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.
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)
You'll never guess the skin color of the kids we put in there.
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
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.
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
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 student body skin color is visible from space.
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.
POV me when I am playing cities skylines and I plop city services in "optimal central location"
So, apparently this used to be a day club.
Then the freeway was built.
THEN Miniya Academies LLC bought the property and made it a charter school.
So, IMHO, all blame goes to Dayton SMART. (Who the fuck would want their kids to go there?)
This school apparently has tests scores well below the Ohio average. Big surprise.
Looking at the traffic flow, it looks like the ONLY way to get to this school is from the right lane, passing through the underpass. Elementary kids aside, this is a traffic safety nightmare. I thought Texas had bad zoning laws. Whoever approved this should have to work solely from this building for the rest of their life. Even the on/off ramp looks like a traffic nightmare.
Apparently you can do this as well. Nightmare intersection.
WTF is a “day club”?
I'm guessing... the opposite of a night club?
I'm baffled that this is legal. Those kids will be breathing traffic fumes all day. Tire dust, highway litter, it looks like a literally toxic environment for kids to spend most of their day for most of the year. And that's apart from the fairly obvious danger of having high speed traffic right next to a school.
Edit: My son just came home from school and added noise, and that you can only go to school by car, not by bike or walking (although I understand that's not unusual in the US).
It’s a charter school aka money grab.
It was never built to be a school. It was converted.
You could argue that these “public” charter schools exist because of lack of investment in public schooling, but that’s wasn’t the point of the post.
I mean, really it's public schools are under funded so they can convince people to funnel money into charter schools so someone can get rich.
US roads are like Mad Max to me. Insane urban planning. They drive like maniacs. Statistically many of them are carrying guns.
I honestly thought there's no way this is real but after seeing the comments and searching online, on the school's own location link:
Good gods that is miserably tragic
it was supposed to be bulldozed for the road, they 'saved it'
on one hand it's horrible, on the other hand, is it worse than shoving that couple hundred students into the already overflowing schools by putting up more rental trailers outside the existing schools?