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Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:48 pm to fareplay
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this is an outrageous take especially from a guy who probably went to public school
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fareplay
You've been around since 2012, and don't know el Gaucho
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:49 pm to GreenRockTiger
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not in Texas
Oh yeah I forgot,
go to jail, can’t read, or sell propane
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:50 pm to el Gaucho
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I’m sure that 20 million dollar stadium received federal funds somewhat
Well, not here. Maybe the cripple ramps got federal funding, but trust me, we pass billion dollar bonds, including hundreds of millions out of our direct pockets to pay for shite like this and STEM centers that get used by each class twice a year.
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Putting more money into education doesn’t improve results
True
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success is a function of genetics and luck and how much money your parents spend to give you a head start
False. The kids of enlisted pukes overseas do nearly as well as the officer's kids, because having military parents generally means they give a shite about when homework is due, etc., especially since their command will know if they've got a kid that may become a distraction risk.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:54 pm to FLTech
Those curves and turns add additional cost to the build. Is there a reason to spend additional tax dollars to achieve the same educational results that could be had at a much lower cost?
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:55 pm to GreenRockTiger
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Plus public school kids can’t read and all go to jail. Parents that actually love their kids send them to private school
not in Texas
This is where most of our property taxes go, my kid's school district could hold up against any private school in Louisiana.
And probably cost about the same, my taxes are around $7,500 a year so $625 per month.
Most of his teachers from grade school on had/have degrees from major universities and a lot have masters/ PHD's.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 1:14 pm to TechBullDawg
I am all for beautiful and nice schools. This actually looks nice but I think it is a terrible and awful building design for a school
You mean to tell me that I would have to walk this route every single day and not be late for 2nd period?
This design just doesn't seem very functional to me
You mean to tell me that I would have to walk this route every single day and not be late for 2nd period?
This design just doesn't seem very functional to me
Posted on 2/28/25 at 1:25 pm to FLTech
Texans: “look at how big our high schools are”
Posted on 2/28/25 at 1:27 pm to Artificial Ignorance
Man… this post feels like an awful lot of cope.
No system is perfect, and I get that there are tradeoffs with every developmental model. But if you’re complaining about systems encouraging students to try their best, then the problem might be with you
No system is perfect, and I get that there are tradeoffs with every developmental model. But if you’re complaining about systems encouraging students to try their best, then the problem might be with you
Posted on 2/28/25 at 1:27 pm to FLTech
The last high schools built here locally cost over $70M dollars. That seems insane to me.
That school looks to be trip that or more.
That school looks to be trip that or more.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 1:32 pm to FLTech
Two considerations I've seen in new school building in Houston:
1) A lot seems to be determined how to cut window exposure to the sun in the afternoon to the greatest extent possible. Depending on the orientation of this building, you have a shape which creates shade and minimizes mid-day to afternoon sun exposure to windows.
2) When you have big schools like this, the class orientation you've notated is not likely. Where they have the space (in any school that isn't 50 years old,) the freshmen will almost never leave their "pod" which would be (probably) the module where you have second period occurring. Upper classmen would never need to go to that module.
I'm all for function over form, but it's probably not quite as useless as many of you think.
1) A lot seems to be determined how to cut window exposure to the sun in the afternoon to the greatest extent possible. Depending on the orientation of this building, you have a shape which creates shade and minimizes mid-day to afternoon sun exposure to windows.
2) When you have big schools like this, the class orientation you've notated is not likely. Where they have the space (in any school that isn't 50 years old,) the freshmen will almost never leave their "pod" which would be (probably) the module where you have second period occurring. Upper classmen would never need to go to that module.
I'm all for function over form, but it's probably not quite as useless as many of you think.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 1:45 pm to El Segundo Guy
Whenever I hear how much this war cost or that war, I always break it down by how many US schools could have been built.
Say Ukraine was $300 billion (low estimate)
New hi tech school $20 million est. (maybe not as nice as those pictured above)
So, Ukraine cost us 1,500 new Hi Tech schools in the US along with all the construction jobs that come with it.
Iraq cost $2 trillion or 10,000 schools.
Say Ukraine was $300 billion (low estimate)
New hi tech school $20 million est. (maybe not as nice as those pictured above)
So, Ukraine cost us 1,500 new Hi Tech schools in the US along with all the construction jobs that come with it.
Iraq cost $2 trillion or 10,000 schools.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 1:48 pm to FLTech
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This design just doesn't seem very functional to me
Looks very functional to me.
I think its a nice, compact design without looking like old Soviet housing.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 1:59 pm to RogerTheShrubber
my daughter teaches in northwest isd. good place. she is down the street from byron nelson hs. they have very impressive athletic facilities there. my family is several generations plano. my dad graduated in 50. 21 graduates. i graduated in 75, 650 graduates. my sister in 79, 2200 in her class. plano east opened the next year. even 6 man teams have great stadiums in west texas. blackwell, trent, and zephyr come to mind
Posted on 2/28/25 at 2:29 pm to DarthRebel
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Looks like they are more serious about sports than school.
Texas Forever
What you out of staters don't understand:
1. The school has 3k-6k students on that campus.
2. The mega stadiums are usually shared with other schools in the district/ Ours is shared between three schools each with 1800 students, for example.
3. EACH of those schools fields:
- Three to four football teams
- Two marching bands for each school, each of which can march 500-ish kids. Our school marched 326 with 1800 kids
- Color guard and dance teams are another 100 kids
- Up to EIGHT soccer teams (boys and girls) PER school use the field
- Up to SIX track teams use some of the stadiums that have tracks built it (ours does, ones in the pics do not)
- I'm sure I'm leaving out something like a quidditch team that also uses the stadium, point is, those stadiums accommodate thousands of kids and tens of thousands of family members, so yeah, they have to look like a college stadium
4. Advertising at the stadiums is a big deal to local businesses, and they pay dearly for it. Some schools make money off their stadiums between this and band contests.
5. Speaking of band contests, they last two days, pull in 10k or more people from as far as 200 miles away for the 4A-5A contests, and both the school district and the local economy reap the benefits. Restaurants within five miles of a major stadium make their year in the Fall between games and band events.
Last of all, every single one of those stadiums was voted on and approved by the local voter base. I'd like to see that slow down, but at least local people are in control.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 2:45 pm to FLTech
Northwest ISD is going to be the largest IsD by square miles in Texas if they keep growing at current rate.
That is standard size HS for around here.
That is standard size HS for around here.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 2:57 pm to jflsufan
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Looks like they are more serious about sports than school.
So, Monday in Texas then.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 2:59 pm to willymeaux
At least the fat little kids will have to walk 5x as far to get from 1 corner to the other
Posted on 2/28/25 at 3:01 pm to danilo
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Don’t care what it looks like as long as teachers aren’t banging students
Depends on what they look like.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 3:08 pm to FLTech
Doesn't Texas have some of the highest property taxes in the nation?
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