Mark Simon, a founding partner of Centerbrook Architects and Planners, agrees. “I think [bars and other fortifying techniques] send the wrong message to both kids and teachers,” he says. Based in Centerbrook, Connecticut, Simon has designed 20 school buildings, including five public elementary schools, though none in Newtown. “Buildings tell stories, and when a building is designed that way, it tells you that it doesn’t trust you. And kids intuit that they’re not trusted,” he says. — archrecord.construction.com
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We would like to first abandon and then demolish them schools in this country! And fucking NRA says we need to "arm" the schools!. We have no spine!
Phillis Wheatley School:
...Like this prison like school with no spine. No wonder we love Walmart, Costco and the rest... There are going to be more of these type of schools.. You watch.
"The walls are up and the roofs are on at Forest Grove High School's new gymnasium and science classroom wing. The projects are part of the $65.3 million bond that voters approved in November 2010. The bond also financed construction of the new Joseph Gale Elementary School and other improvements throughout the district. The high school construction is the last part of the bond work and is scheduled for completion by June 2013. The science wing will include eight new science classrooms with labs. Work was finished last summer on an expanded kitchen and cafeteria at the high school as well as improvements to the offices and entryway."
bulletproof glass.
bullet proof glass
If we had sensible common sense gun laws, we wouldn't need our school and other public buildings to look like concrete bunkers...
Oh my god. We are going to raise kids in an age of paranoia. As a lady on NPR said, we want to send our kids to school, not prison.
Paranoia is already entrenched in our society, I'm afraid. Look at automobile design: modern cars like the Honda Element -- and so many others by less enlightened manufacturers ? -- have unnecessarily thick roof pillars and a general air of defensive structure, which I would bet are the result of consumer-response research, not by the engineers. Look at the tanks being driven about by crash-wary soccer moms. You can lead by instigating fear.
Designing schools to look like fortresses is not the way to go. No one would want to go to them. Remember, what happened at Newtown took place inside. Tougher screening measures need to happen in preventing the wrong people from obtaining firearms. This can't be a legislative manner,alone, this needs to addresssed to those who already have firearms.
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