This is the Elementary School I went too.
@teapotmommommerced (10359)
United States
July 6, 2008 12:18am CST
This is a photo of the Elementary School that I went to from second grade until I graduated eight grade. The school is called El Portal Elementary School. It had K-8th when I went. Now it only goes from K to 6th and the students have to be bused to Yosemite National Park or Mariposa to finish school. Once the students go to high school they have to go to Mariposa high school.
El Portal is 17 miles from the Valley Floor of Yosemite National Park and 35 miles from Mariposa.
I am glad I am not raising children up there because it would be a hard decision on which way to send my child to school. It would depend on how the school where as far as academics.
I now live 72 miles from El Portal and last Monday my sister and I took a drive up to El Portal to see the old stomping grounds. We had not been up there in almost 10 years. My older sister was visiting from Washington State and we decided to take a drive. We had a good day taking her son all around the old stomping grounds and talking about old times.
The class rooms where two grades to a class room. We had 1-2, 3-4, and so on.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
6 Jul 08
That sounds like a whole lot of fun. I want to go back and see my old Elementary School, but the neighborhood is just too depressing and over flowing with crime. Sounds like it would be a lot of fun to go to school at Yosemite National Park. I would be quite a beautiful sight to say the least. It's always nice to remember the good times.
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@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
6 Jul 08
Rozie I do miss the beauty of is all. The problem is it is so far to drive to any place. It is 72 miles to a grocery store with decent prices, 72 miles to a good doctor. I love living where I do we are two hours from San Francisco two and half hours from Monetary and two and half hours from Yosemite National Park. We have lots of lakes we can visit.
Another problem was we did not have any friends growing up. My parents did not fit in and so neither did us girls. It did teach my sisters and I to stick together. We learned to rely on each other for friendship and to play together. We would spend hours and hours on the Merced River. It is a wonder we did not drowned from swimming in that fast water. We use to climb the trees also. We had fun catching fish, and doing all kinds of tom boy things.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
6 Jul 08
If everything is so far away out there, then it is not a good idea to live there. Especially, with the price of gas being what it is. Up until I was ten years old,(when my mother passed)my sister's and I really only had each other also. We lived in the Avalon Garden Projects. There were mostly thugs hanging around and my mother was afraid for us to associate with them.
The friends that we were allowed to have were much, much younger than us. So we stuck together in the house and used our imagination a lot. We made our own fun. I would not mind living in an area where you do. I am tired of living in Los Angeles County. It is too big and there is far too much going on all the time. I would much rather live in a quiet, small town.
Living out here means that I will not have to deal with the snow(I have Asthma) and I am close to my family. Other than that, I would have left years ago.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
7 Jul 08
Wow what a beautiful school and gosh, what a view to have in the background there. My Elementary School changed a lot....gee, forget how old that school is but my mother had gone to it, then later me...I went there from kindergarden up to sixth grade, then had to be bused to an intermediate school ...it only changed that year..normally PS 89 went right up til 8th grade
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@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
8 Jul 08
WE did live in a great place for the view. I think I would have loved to live there more if we had more friends.
I did like going back there the other day. I will always treasure the day my sister and I took to El Portal.
