The school was built into a down-slope, so the recess yard in front of the school was a flat pad of concrete below street level.
Down the road from the park visitor center at Furnace Creek is Death Valley Elementary school, a flat-roofed building beside a dry streambed, which blends easily into the gray-brown landscape.
Faced with flat budgets and rising costs, most school systems have had only one option: deliver less education.
The number of jobs where you can support a family and have a full benefit package on just a high school education, for example, those jobs are flat right now.
Mr Twigg added that "with the economy flat-lining... a proper school building programme would be good for pupils and good for jobs".
Sports bloggers in January began poking fun at Turner online from its 14-student high school to its nonprofit organization, "The Big Flat Community Grain Bin, " created to stem population decline.
Wright's Prairie Homes contrasted the grand edifices of the Chicago School with their modest low-slung horizon lines, flat roofs, overhanging eaves, unadorned open spaces and natural materials that mirrored the Midwestern landscape.
Only a few weeks ago the prime minister told a group of school children that he lived in "in a little flat, a very nice flat actually, above number 11 Downing Street... but what I get up to in there, that's private".
He invented the use of vouchers to foster school choice, favored replacing the progressive income tax with a flat tax, and even sought to abolish government licensing of doctors.
The back-to-school discussion focused on helping families save and pay for college amid rising tuition costs and flat-lining middle class incomes.
"Shops that don't have an online presence have noticed rival stores enjoying a dramatic increase in online sales, while their sales in shops have been pretty flat, " according to Jeremy Baker, professor of marketing at the ESCP business school.
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