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!
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.
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.
Damn. Imagine going to school in two backroom levels at once.
Looks like a set from Squid Games
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.
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.
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 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.
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?
Hey, there’s a sidewalk, that’s better than most cities in the US!
There’s a pedestrian path going to the left. Which even has a connection to a sidewalk and a bus route going there. For US standards this is basically a walkable city utopia
Think of what they’re breathing all day.
