ADA-compliant playground funded by grant, built by technical school students opens at Southdowns Pre-K

BATON ROUGE — On Friday morning, an ADA-compliant playground opened up at the Southdowns Pre-K Center.The new "Koda House" has special accommodations for children who have physical disabilities. In April, Shalika Scott, principal of Southdowns Pre-K, said that 65 percent of the center's students have disabilities. "The students named the bear Koda. K for kindness, O for optimism, D for Discovery and A for Adventure," Martha Sealy, the administrative directive at the East Bato