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specialized teaching, so copy machines are standing out in the <br /> hallways and in the middle of the library. <br /> Our small cafeteria, originally built to feed 325 students, <br /> now must start serving lunch at 10:40 and doesn't close do <br /> until 1 :10, only 1 hour before school is dismissed. <br /> This year, we can no longer have whole school <br /> assemblies; every performance or event must be scheduled twice <br /> in order to fit everyone into our small gym. <br /> We have only one art teacher and one music teacher. In <br /> order for them to offer all 29 classes at FPG art or music <br /> instruction each week, these teachers barely have time for a 15 <br /> minute lunch let alone find time for a bathroom break during the <br /> day. <br /> Our school is geographically landlocked between the flood <br /> plain of Morgan Creek and the newly widened Highway 54. We <br /> have very little, if any, 1. d area left for additional mobile <br /> classrooms. We currently have 70 parking spaces for over 90 <br /> employees. This leaves no space for our n erous parent <br /> volunteers, visitors or the many student teachers that come to us <br /> from C every spring and no space in which to extend the <br /> parking lot. <br /> This is the situation right now. Two large developments <br /> are currently underway along Culbreth road. The majority of <br /> families moving in are not moving from within the school <br /> district but are moving in frov out of state. It is very scary to <br /> m. y of us parents to looksouth of town along Highway 15-501 <br /> and watch Southern Village being built The proposed plans for <br /> this co unity include 1000 housing units, the first of which <br /> will be finished early next year. ere will these children go to <br /> school? How are we to fit them all into Fr. Porter Grah. ? <br />