We lucked out with our kids school. While the community was 30+ years old there was no elementary school until about 10 years a go...right when we moved in. It didnt have a gym or a library when it opened, but it had a big hallway that they used for both. Our oldest still enjoys a good game of full contact library hallway basketball. They expanded the school to include the gym and library and more classrooms after a couple of years.
One thing that has always bothered me about building schools is that they want/need? to make them all different. The design costs to make each unique seems a waste. Tims and McD's etc all look the same...so can schools. Save some money there.
The minischools are a stop gap thats needed in some communities, just a reality right now, and better they go to a local school than be bused imo.
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