When LAUSD decreased class sizes in Kindergarten through grade 3 to 20 students per teacher, they needed additional classrooms.
Not only did they hire emergency credentialed teachers with no experience, no training, and only a college degree who learned on the job while teaching, they installed small bungalows (large closets) to meet the needs.
They waived the state requirements to have a certain amount of square feet per student on each playground. Playgrounds grew smaller in each school and the number of play areas for the children were diminished.
The bungalows came without closets for teachers to store materials. So each teacher received 2 to 3 rolling cabinets.
There was a sink in one corner. Add in a teacher’s desk, a T.V. on a rolling cart, bookcases, student’s desks and chairs and maybe a small rug and there was little space for the children to move around and children need to be able to move around.
The bungalows have windows on one side only, so no cross ventilation. The metal ramps leading to the classes are prone for falls whether wet or dry.
Today the number of students in each classroom is higher and they are still using these closets.
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