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washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
burkeresident
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Date: April 23, 2011 11:15PM
ok so when I was in school you would get into trouble if anyone saw you with your cell during school hours so why dose irving middle school have a cell tower?
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
WTF?
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Date: April 23, 2011 11:19PM
What does one have to do with the other? My guess is the location is ideal for a cell tower, and the school system is more than happy to accept whatever type of payment they get from whatever carrier the tower belongs to.
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
purplerain
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Date: April 23, 2011 11:20PM
$$$. nuff said.
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Janz
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Date: April 24, 2011 05:09PM
I think a more pressing question is, just what happens to the revenue being generated through leasing out space, to install these cell phone towers on school property???
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
I agree
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Date: April 24, 2011 05:40PM
Cell towers make the owners big bucks. I wish someone would ask me to put one on my 5+ lot. They even look like trees.
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Shadow
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Date: April 24, 2011 06:20PM
Same reason Woodson does and a number of other locations. Money. The cell companies are paying to have towers there and the citizens want them so that their cell phone reception is good. Especially since so many are dropping their landlines and going with only cell services.
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Pinhead the Cenobite
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Date: April 24, 2011 09:23PM
It is money. The cell companies pay sizeable sums of money to FCPS to erect an antenna and the associated equipment at school sites. They are chosen because they usually have pre-existing, free standing light towers that are 70 to 90 feet in height. This is a good height for localized coverage to either add cell capacity or to fill in a coverage gap.
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Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Jeese
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Date: April 24, 2011 09:32PM
It's a secret plot by Jack Dale to monitor all cell phone conversations in the county. A small part of his master plan to take over the world that also includes sharks with lasers.
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
burkeresident
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Date: April 24, 2011 10:54PM
The reason why this thread was started is because when I was in school (I even went to Irving for my MS) year every teacher would make a big deal about students with there phones and putting cell towers up near or on school property sure dose not solve the use of no cell phones during school hours.
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Wash-Irving Must Suck, No?
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Date: April 25, 2011 08:59AM
"about students with there phones" ... you mean "their".
Nice edgeyoukashun at Washington Irving
Nice edgeyoukashun at Washington Irving
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Shadow
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Date: April 25, 2011 10:11AM
burkeresident Wrote:
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> The reason why this thread was started is because
> when I was in school (I even went to Irving for my
> MS) year every teacher would make a big deal about
> students with there phones and putting cell towers
> up near or on school property sure dose not solve
> the use of no cell phones during school hours.
Clearly your education in English was lacking. Students still cannot use cell phones during school. One has nothing to do with the other. The towers are for the entire community, not the students per se.
But then, when I went to school, we had smoking courts and it was still illegal for anyone under 18 to smoke.
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> The reason why this thread was started is because
> when I was in school (I even went to Irving for my
> MS) year every teacher would make a big deal about
> students with there phones and putting cell towers
> up near or on school property sure dose not solve
> the use of no cell phones during school hours.
Clearly your education in English was lacking. Students still cannot use cell phones during school. One has nothing to do with the other. The towers are for the entire community, not the students per se.
But then, when I went to school, we had smoking courts and it was still illegal for anyone under 18 to smoke.
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Gordon Blvd
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Date: April 25, 2011 10:28AM
OP needs to get off the phone and into the books
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Milton
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Date: April 25, 2011 12:17PM
burkeresident Wrote:
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> ok so when I was in school you would get into
> trouble if anyone saw you with your cell during
> school hours so why dose irving middle school have
> a cell tower?
Better question might be "why did FFXC name a school after Washington Irving?" Did some adminstrator type really like "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" or "Rip Van Winkle" a lot or something?
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> ok so when I was in school you would get into
> trouble if anyone saw you with your cell during
> school hours so why dose irving middle school have
> a cell tower?
Better question might be "why did FFXC name a school after Washington Irving?" Did some adminstrator type really like "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" or "Rip Van Winkle" a lot or something?
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
jhey
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Date: April 25, 2011 05:15PM
burkeresident Wrote:
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> The reason why this thread was started is because
> when I was in school (I even went to Irving for my
> MS) year every teacher would make a big deal about
> students with there phones and putting cell towers
> up near or on school property sure dose not solve
> the use of no cell phones during school hours.
Excellent point. While they're taking down the cell tower, they should get also rid of the driveway in front of the school. Middle schoolers aren't allowed to drive, so why is it even there? Hypocrites!
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> The reason why this thread was started is because
> when I was in school (I even went to Irving for my
> MS) year every teacher would make a big deal about
> students with there phones and putting cell towers
> up near or on school property sure dose not solve
> the use of no cell phones during school hours.
Excellent point. While they're taking down the cell tower, they should get also rid of the driveway in front of the school. Middle schoolers aren't allowed to drive, so why is it even there? Hypocrites!
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Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Forbesanton
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Date: April 25, 2011 06:48PM
Citizens have no ability to resist when a tower is erected at a school rather than community property. And as a school does not have the same interests as a human being, a school does not require much compensation.
Schools are not 'magically' located in all the best areas for cell phone reception, as some in this thread have argued. In fact many schools have multiple cell phone towers.
Schools are not 'magically' located in all the best areas for cell phone reception, as some in this thread have argued. In fact many schools have multiple cell phone towers.
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
say
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Date: April 25, 2011 08:21PM
I have a friend that lives on 100 or so acres right by I-77 near the VA/NC line. A cell company wanted to build a tower on his land and offered him a $1300/mo long term lease.
You'd have thought he won the fucking lottery! He even quit his job.
If they're paying that much down there in the middle of nowhere, then they probably pay considerably more up here.
You'd have thought he won the fucking lottery! He even quit his job.
If they're paying that much down there in the middle of nowhere, then they probably pay considerably more up here.
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Gordon Blvd
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Date: April 25, 2011 08:38PM
@Milton - havent you noticed ALL the middle schools in the county are named after poets and writers?
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Ut videam
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Date: April 25, 2011 08:49PM
@Gordo:
So how do you explain Ormond Stone (astronomer, mathemetician, educator—but not exactly known for his poems or other writings)?
And we're just getting started: there's Liberty, Rocky Run, Herndon, Luther Jackson—and I'm not even counting the secondary schools.
So how do you explain Ormond Stone (astronomer, mathemetician, educator—but not exactly known for his poems or other writings)?
And we're just getting started: there's Liberty, Rocky Run, Herndon, Luther Jackson—and I'm not even counting the secondary schools.
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Gordon Blvd
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Date: April 25, 2011 09:06PM
good point - ok, most then.
kinda creepy you know all the middle schools so well, though.................
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kinda creepy you know all the middle schools so well, though.................
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Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Ut videam
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Date: April 25, 2011 09:16PM
o_O
So being able to use Google makes me a pedo now?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fairfax+county+middle+schools
Oh, I give up. You win, Gordo!
So being able to use Google makes me a pedo now?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fairfax+county+middle+schools
Oh, I give up. You win, Gordo!
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Gordon Blvd
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Date: April 25, 2011 09:20PM
Ut videam Wrote:
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> o_O
>
> So being able to use Google makes me a pedo now?
>
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fairfax+county+middle+schools
>
>
> Oh, I give up. You win, Gordo!
>
>you actually googled middle schools??
EEeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
seriously, dude - calm down - it's all in humour
nobody really thinks yr a pedo for point out some fact, ok
it's just a joke
calm blue ocean, yo...........calm blue ocean.............
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> o_O
>
> So being able to use Google makes me a pedo now?
>
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fairfax+county+middle+schools
>
>
> Oh, I give up. You win, Gordo!
>
>you actually googled middle schools??
EEeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
seriously, dude - calm down - it's all in humour
nobody really thinks yr a pedo for point out some fact, ok
it's just a joke
calm blue ocean, yo...........calm blue ocean.............
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Ut videam
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Date: April 25, 2011 09:23PM
LOL
I'm calm.
But I do think you're a retard. :D
I'm calm.
But I do think you're a retard. :D
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Gordon Blvd
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Date: April 25, 2011 09:28PM
I'm on Fairfax Underground wasting my life away - of COURSE I'm a retard, yo
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Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
burkeresident
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Date: April 25, 2011 11:14PM
ok everyone is taking this topic in a wrong way all I asked was a question note some behavior problems cause maybe you had a bad day don't take it out on everyone else not my problem or anyone here on fairfax underground.
Re: washington irving middle school cell tower
Posted by:
Skins
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Date: April 26, 2011 01:13AM
Shadow Wrote:
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> Same reason Woodson does and a number of other
> locations. Money. The cell companies are paying to
> have towers there and the citizens want them so
> that their cell phone reception is good.
> Especially since so many are dropping their
> landlines and going with only cell services.
At most schools, the principal's budget receives the money. But at Woodson, Tisdadt's Facilities people arranged for the tower to be placed near the gas pumps so Woodson receives nothing. If it was located 50 feet to the east it would have been Woodson's tower.
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> Same reason Woodson does and a number of other
> locations. Money. The cell companies are paying to
> have towers there and the citizens want them so
> that their cell phone reception is good.
> Especially since so many are dropping their
> landlines and going with only cell services.
At most schools, the principal's budget receives the money. But at Woodson, Tisdadt's Facilities people arranged for the tower to be placed near the gas pumps so Woodson receives nothing. If it was located 50 feet to the east it would have been Woodson's tower.