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Schools close doors on open classrooms.
Byline: Dave Weber
Jul. 2--SANFORD
When the open-classroom concept waltzed through Florida nearly 40 years ago, Central Florida heard the tune, quickly got in step and followed along.
The idea was to build classrooms as huge open spaces where several teachers were teamed to instruct up to 120 students. The communal-learning atmosphere was heralded as an improvement over the traditional, self-contained classroom with a single teacher.
But what schools got were 120 kids milling around in a big, noisy room without doors.
The concept fell short, and the region has been paying the price ever since.
Seminole County alone built 15 open-classroom schools in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Other Central Florida counties also bought into the craze -- Orange, Volusia, Lake, Osceola, Polk and Brevard all…
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