By How times have changed in 2ID:
Shortly after 6 on a recent morning, children emerged from the pre-dawn darkness here one or two at a time to board a bus for their 90-minute journey south to schools at Yongsan Garrison in Seoul.
For the most part, the dozens of children who commute each day between Area I, the northernmost region in South Korea, and Seoul don’t seem to mind the three-hour roundtrip.
But parents and officials with Department of Defense Dependents Schools hope the planned August opening of Area I’s first on-base school, at Camp Casey, will give students something they have missed — a sense of “community.” [Stars & Stripes]
It is interesting a elementary school is being built on Camp Casey for a camp that is supposed to close. Like with the Yongsan move I’ll have to see Camp Casey close to believe it will ever happen.
10:16 pm on March 8th, 2010 1
I wonder if they'll teach TSL (Tagalog as a second language).
12:39 am on March 9th, 2010 2
HAHAHAHA! That is so wrong…
1:17 am on March 9th, 2010 3
Indeed!
9:38 am on March 9th, 2010 4
As I always like to say, and rub it in. Re-alignment BLA BLA BLA, Camps relocating to CP Humphreys, HAR HAR HAR…
In Summary: BLA BLA BLA, HAR HAR HAR…
/They might not teach Tagalog as a second language but I bet they serve lumoia for lunch.
9:59 am on March 9th, 2010 5
It is interesting a elementary school is being built on Camp Casey for a camp that is supposed to close. Like with the Yongsan move I’ll have to see Camp Casey close to believe it will ever happen.
I thought that it was a case of them having to spend the budget or else they'd lose out on money in the future.
Aren't the Pyongtaek construction projects moving along?
10:36 am on March 9th, 2010 6
Have you been to Casey lately? The number of fat American housewives with packs of snotlings in tow far exceed the gold digger flip whores that used to rule the scene.
The school is needed since the packs of snotlings have increased the pupil teacher ratio at the local waeguk schools to an unaceptable level.
1:14 pm on March 9th, 2010 7
Yep, the commissary isles are no longer wide enough.
1:19 pm on March 9th, 2010 8
aisles (dammit not isles, arrrr matey!)
4:22 pm on March 9th, 2010 9
I heard that it is being funded with ROK Logistic Cost Sharing (LCS) funds
8:30 pm on March 9th, 2010 10
[...] on the USFK front, GI Korea notes that Camp Casey is getting an elementary school. Says the GI: It is interesting a elementary school is being built on Camp Casey for a camp that is [...]
12:54 pm on March 10th, 2010 11
I guess the GI's needed more schooling.
Just kidding. With a title like this I couldn't resist.