The New Oxon Hill High School Building Preview (Gaithersburg, Rockville: transfer, drywall)

[justtitans]

Check it out

Getting Ready for the New Oxon Hill High School - YouTube

[North Beach Person]

Do you know if the interior walls are concrete or drywall? They made the mistake of using drywall at Flowers and have kept a repair crew busy ever since.

[fortwashingtonkid]

whats the saying? you can put lipstick on a pig......


Now if they could just get new students that can pass their standardized tests. That and cut down 90% of the riff-raff to acceptable levels.

Glad to see they have new facilities but It's still a train wreck over there. I guess ya gotta start somewhere.

[EdwardA]

Originally Posted by fortwashingtonkid

whats the saying? you can put lipstick on a pig......


Now if they could just get new students that can pass their standardized tests. That and cut down 90% of the riff-raff to acceptable levels.

Glad to see they have new facilities but It's still a train wreck over there. I guess ya gotta start somewhere.

New buildings make everything better.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by EdwardA

New buildings make everything better.

That's why there are never any problems at Wise.

Believe it or not many people do believe the problems go away with a new building. They don't pay attention.

The parents around Upper Marlboro who lobbied for their kids to go to Wise when it opened are now doing everything they can to get the lines redrawn so their kids go back to Douglass. That's not counting the special transfers.

[superseiyan]

Actually looks ok. Not as gloomy as most schools (and libraries).

Question: Why do local schools and libraries look so depressing? The exterior design/look of schools is more depressing than jails, and often there is very poor lighting inside the buildings.

There are signs that this is changing at least with libraries--see Rockville, and the new Gaithersburg one. But what's the reason for the ominous, fortress style of design for schools and libraries (until recently)?

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by superseiyan

Actually looks ok. Not as gloomy as most schools (and libraries).

Question: Why do local schools and libraries look so depressing? The exterior design/look of schools is more depressing than jails, and often there is very poor lighting inside the buildings.

There are signs that this is changing at least with libraries--see Rockville, and the new Gaithersburg one. But what's the reason for the ominous, fortress style of design for schools and libraries (until recently)?

Some of it just has to do with what's in style for architecture at the time. Some has to do with educational theory (open classrooms). Largo has very few windows and they don't open. That's because the air conditioning always works there. Right.

Remember that schools are designed and built to have a 50+ year life span (if maintained properly).

[justtitans]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Do you know if the interior walls are concrete or drywall? They made the mistake of using drywall at Flowers and have kept a repair crew busy ever since.

I don't know. I know Gwynn Park used to have these horrible flimsy covers over the wall and some of the students used to tear them down. It looked horrible.

And speaking of Wise. I went there the year after it was opened dropping my wife off for a Professional Development. I went to use the bathroom and I was just shocked how tagged up the bathroom had already become. I mean my goodness, I would have loved to go to a school building as nice as that. These kids just don't appreciate anything.

I heard someone had the bright idea of pulling kids from areas like Suitland, Forestville and District Heights to bring to Wise. Geniuses.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by pgtvatitans

I don't know. I know Gwynn Park used to have these horrible flimsy covers over the wall and some of the students used to tear them down. It looked horrible.

And speaking of Wise. I went there the year after it was opened dropping my wife off for a Professional Development. I went to use the bathroom and I was just shocked how tagged up the bathroom had already become. I mean my goodness, I would have loved to go to a school building as nice as that. These kids just don't appreciate anything.

I heard someone had the bright idea of pulling kids from areas like Suitland, Forestville and District Heights to bring to Wise. Geniuses.

And so it goes.

[UrbanScholar]

I think that PGCPS is going to do everything it can to filter out the knuckleheads. Remember the enrollment last year was about 1900 and now its going to be a max of 1200 you take out the slots slated for science/tech and some of the other programs, there is going to be a significantly reduced number of general student enrollees there. Also, considering that they spent 82M, I think there tolerance is going to be nil. Sure there are going to be issues, but I would be surprised if they let them go buck wild. Kind of like parents restricting a kid from certain rooms of the house.