MOORPARK USING PORTABLE CLASSROOMS TO COPE WITH STUDENT SURGE.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Daily News Staff Writer With a large student population projected, the Moorpark school district will put six relocatable classrooms at Walnut Canyon Elementary, the campus expected to open in the fall. At a meeting Tuesday night, the school board approved the purchase of several relocatables - six at the new school and an undetermined number slated for Mountain Meadows Mountain Meadows, small valley in extreme SW Utah, where in 1857 a party of some 140 emigrants bound for California were massacred. It was a period when friction between Mormons and non-Mormons was acute, with Mormons bitterly resenting the coming of U.S. Elementary School elementary school: see school. and Moorpark High School Moorpark High School, located in Moorpark, California, is a public high school in the Moorpark Unified School District and currently has an enrollment of 2,478 students.[1] . ``We have pop-up schools because we've had two bond issues fail,'' said school board member Greg Barker barker a term for an animal that does not usually bark which makes a violent respiratory effort, often during a convulsion, accompanied by a sound which roughly resembles a dog's bark. . ``We don't have a choice but to put them up.'' Barker said the newest campus received approximately 360 applications for enrollment, far higher than the 280-student cap the district had set for the first year of operation. The relocatables will meet a state requirement that some be placed on schools built with state funding, as well as provide room for the new campus to grow. ``The dynamics of this is a neat chess game of trying to keep these kids housed,'' Barker said. ``The best way is permanent sites, and the second-best way is relocatables.'' With a current total of 90 portable classrooms, all district campuses have, or are expected to soon have, relocatable buildings A building designed to be readily moved, erected, disassembled, stored, and reused. All types of buildings or building forms designed to provide relocatable capabilities are included in this definition. . The buildings have become a fact of school life throughout the state. ``Permanent relocatables is a contradiction CONTRADICTION. The incompatibility, contrariety, and evident opposition of two ideas, which are the subject of one and the same proposition. 2. In general, when a party accused of a crime contradicts himself, it is presumed he does so because he is guilty for of terms, but that's what it's become,'' said board member Gary Cabriales. ``Until we are able to get funding, from the state or through a bond measure, to build more buildings, they're going to stay. And we're going to get more and more of them as the city grows.'' The district is faced with several development projects on the horizon, and each could potentially bring in hundreds of students to the already-overcrowded campuses. The district also is considering implementing class-size reduction at the kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be level, which would result in an even greater need for facilities. The relocatable classes, officials said, are an investment in the future. However, some said they'd prefer investing in permanent buildings rather than temporary classrooms, although that is an expensive undertaking. To raise the funds necessary to build new schools, the district put two bond measures on recent ballots recently. Both were rejected by voters. |
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