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history, math, philosophy and so on. Other classrooms are "specialized mess rooms. Art and music cannot work well in the same room. Music doesn’t work well in a generalized classroom. Physics cannot be taught well in a chemistry lab. Technical mess rooms tend to be inflexible. It’s really wrong to allow board members to be attacked by the supervisors for five empty rooms if they are specialized mess rooms,” Faulkner said. Eastham said such comments were “not fair” to the supervisors. “There is no specific battle between the supervisors and the school board. We, to be perfectly frank, have not gotten to the point where we could take a package to the supervisors,” he said. “If money were no object, would this board know exactly what it wanted?” Faulkner asked. Board Chairman Beverly Massie replied, “Realistically anything we build has to be maintained.” “Suppose money were no problem, would you then know what you want to do?” Faulkner repeated.
"It’s impossible to leave cost out of the equation,” Eastham replied. “I suppose if somebody gave us a cashier’s check for $20 million, we’d eventually build something.”
Faulkner suggested the school board spend two freewheeling sessions discussing needs as if money were ho problem. “What will happen when you do it is that when you get back, ail your priorities will have changed. I think, Mr. Eastham, the cost concern is coming ahead of the program concern,” Faulkner said.
Eastham asked about using movable partitions. In Fairfax County he noted “they change the whole bloody school around to meet the needs of the coming year.” He said when he visited the schools in 1979-80 one large classroom had only seven students taking trigonometry. “If there are only five damn children to take trigonometry we don't need 460 square feet.”
Faulkner said a truly movable partition is four times as expensive to build as a regular cinderblock or studded wall partition. Statistics show they are moved on the average about 3'/> times during their lifetimes.
“Faculty and support staff get too tired of moving one so they say put it here and leave it," he said. “But until you move it 12 times you don’t recoup your investment.” Regular partitions are four times as good for fire rating
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