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1 posted on 09/10/2011 10:10:48 AM PDT by i88schwartz
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Education is not about buildings and teacher salaries, but learning.

But Barry would know nothing about that. He can barely put to coherent words together without a TelePrompTer.

2 posted on 09/10/2011 10:13:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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what bro, no trailers at Punahou?

Sasha and Malia got no da kine modular classrooms at Sidwell Friends?


3 posted on 09/10/2011 10:14:22 AM PDT by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common - Voltaire)
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” We shouldn’t have people teaching in trailers. We shouldn’t have kids learning in trailers”

Our son had classes in trailers in high school. Funny, he seemed to learn in a trailer and went on to get scholarships. Learning has more to do with the QUALITY of teachers than in an environment. But, of course, the NEA would never agree with that statement.


4 posted on 09/10/2011 10:16:56 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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Most of the schools in California have modular (trailer) classrooms. They are nicer than most brick and mortar classrooms.


5 posted on 09/10/2011 10:17:26 AM PDT by 386wt
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Kids deserve a President that doesn't need a teleprompter to speak to them...

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6 posted on 09/10/2011 10:17:56 AM PDT by digger48
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My school acquired a trailer back in 1968, via some federal grant program for reading. Don’t ask me why a reading program would pay for anything beyond books or special instructors....but it did. That trailer sat on school property for around six years, then the grant and extra cash to pay for the one special instructor finally ran out. The two hundred-odd kids who went through that program during that period....really got a boost...but it’s mostly because they kept the group size to like five kids per hour. The school continued to use the trailer for five or six years for various purposes but it started leaking, and they ended up dumping it.

You get the impression that this guy really doesn’t know much about life in America. If he’s all upset about schools using trailers....he must be really shocked and upset that people live their entire lives in a trailer (preferably a double-wide).


7 posted on 09/10/2011 10:18:07 AM PDT by pepsionice
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He is acting like this is a new thing? We had a trailer for drivers ed (yeah back in the day schools used to teach that) it was air conditioned. We loved it. By the way bammy it isn’t the building that teaches kids.


9 posted on 09/10/2011 10:18:29 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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Uh, during the 1960’s, in response to the rapid influx of baby boomers into the school system, lots of schools added “portables’ or “trailers”. I lived in an affluent city and attended classes in such “trailers”. Fifty years later those “trailers” are standing up fine, and still being used.

Today’s “trailers” are technologically superior to the old ones. They are potentially more efficient (think “greener”) than old brick and mortar. I’ve worked in nonprofit organizations where we’ve considered using “trailers” as an alternative to expensive brick and mortar.


10 posted on 09/10/2011 10:19:13 AM PDT by freeagle
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Most schools around here have tennis courts, swimming pools, track fields AND trailers.

And, the kids don’t know the English language, economics or their American history.

Just like their gubmint: all a facade.


11 posted on 09/10/2011 10:19:57 AM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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Welcome to the real world, you dope - we had modular/portable classrooms at my suburban junior high school in 1964. One of them housed the typing class to separate the noise of 30 electric typewriters from the main hallways.


12 posted on 09/10/2011 10:20:16 AM PDT by dainbramaged (I lost my mantra around 1969.)
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Gee where has he been?My high school had a few when I was in school in the late 70’s.Is he sure he went to school in the USA?


13 posted on 09/10/2011 10:20:16 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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Nothing wrong with stretching education dollars as far as possible.

Many of us got excellent educations in uncarpeted schools with no AC and antiquated heating systems.

I still remember sweat dripping off my nose blurring the blue lines on my paper, and only one floor fan in the room

16 posted on 09/10/2011 10:24:32 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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15 years ago I had about 20% of my classes in a trailor... now I’m a surgeon. Didn’t realize I was a victim... probably should’ve just dropped out and started taking a government check for the hardship I had to endure! (/sarc)


17 posted on 09/10/2011 10:25:21 AM PDT by glocker23 (Live Free Or Die)
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What hole did he just crawl out of?


18 posted on 09/10/2011 10:28:00 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Rabid democRATS and 0bama the dictator own it all now.)
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That is one thing I always wondered.

Surely if having a good classroom is so important, why didn’t they come up with modular classrooms for all new school construction.

I look at schools in LA that have the star trek doors and think about how much more could have been done if this money hadn’t been wasted.


20 posted on 09/10/2011 10:28:07 AM PDT by dila813
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What? Sidwell Friends doesn’t have trailers???


23 posted on 09/10/2011 10:30:25 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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My wife manages all the facilities and equipment for our school district. A good portion of her job is managing the “portables” - procurement, installation, relocation, leases, etc.

So Obama is going after her job now?


24 posted on 09/10/2011 10:30:48 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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They used trailers when I was a kid. What’s the big deal?

My great grandmother went K-12 in a one room school that was a church on Sundays.


25 posted on 09/10/2011 10:32:42 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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He hasn’t gotten out much. Ever.


30 posted on 09/10/2011 10:36:18 AM PDT by John W (Natural-born US citizen since 1955)
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0bama is retarded.


32 posted on 09/10/2011 10:41:13 AM PDT by Drango (NO-vember is payback for April 15th)
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