Comments on: Design of New Williamsburg Elementary School Approved

By: been there

been there — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:23:14 +0000

home run, cakes; very well played.

By: Bluemontfred

Bluemontfred — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:22:45 +0000

The population of students is closer to WMS rather than Madison That’s one of the reasons it wasn’t chosen.

By: been there

been there — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:21:49 +0000

“I hope our elected leaders are preparing to deal with the middle school and (now already existing) high school overcrowding issues” — Why — so you can complain about the cost for those facilities? You possibly haven’t noticed that they built an entirely new W-L, entirely new Yorktown, and are now constructing entirely new Wakefield — all of which generated the usual chorus of whining about the cost.

By: get real

get real — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:16:26 +0000

Oh, the sudden concern about the safety of kids crossing Williamsburg Blvd. Not a NIMBY concern, maybe. Where’s your concern about Tuckahoe kids crossing Sycamore, Patrick Henry kids crossing Walter Reed, McKinley kids crossing McKinley road, etc.? The answer is crossing guards, and courteous drivers and cops to enforce speed limits. Sure it’s a problem, life is a problem. Is it such a huge problem that they shouldn’t build the school? You probably would like it to be, but you would be much more credible if you showed some concern about kids on other school districts.

By: funny you should ask

funny you should ask — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:44:56 +0000

At the community meetings, we’ve been told that there are too many historic artifacts on the Madison site, and that it is an archaeologically important site.

On another note, why don’t they move the programs at the ATS/Reed facilities to a different location so those schools could be repurposed to neighborhood schools– there is a black hole in the middle of that area with no Elementary School facilities dedicated to neighborhood schools…

By: dining commons

dining commons — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:58:02 +0000

If it is not designed to be used for other activities, it’s called a cafeteria.

A dining commons is often open to the hallway, unlike a cafeteria that’s it’s own room.

You don’t know what you’re talking about, so you assume someone else is dumb instead of you simply not knowing what you’re talking about. That’s typical.

By: DCBuff

DCBuff — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:27:56 +0000

Yes, of course. If it is called a cafeteria it can’t be used for other activities.

By: BBMS

BBMS — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:48:53 +0000

That’s a good point about the Kensington-Williamsburg crossing. I would not want my kids trying to cross there since it’s kind of a blind approach coming up the hill. Although it looks like they are putting in better medians as part of the storm sewer replacement along Williamsburg. I would not be surprised to see some sort of traffic control signals installed and/or a crossing guard provided for the elementary school kids.

By: drax

drax — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:39:21 +0000

So you just saved, what, a few thousand?

By: drax

drax — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:38:20 +0000

The school isn’t being used while you build it.