APS WL Ed Center Expansion

[Anonymous]

This added 600 seats to WL by converting the Ed center, making it 2800 capacity.

In the presentation, there is a quote "Conversations with APS administrators suggest 2,800 students at a high school is too large a number of students"

-- Which suggests the county realize that this is too big?? So what they will do, maybe put a HB2 in the Ed Center run independently? Or do you think this is just an observation and its full steam ahead to 2800 students after spending $37M?

[Anonymous]

Page 29 for the money quote:

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/C92R8W6B8E38/$file/G-1%20Boundaries%20and%20Elem%20Immersion%20Feeders-%20PowerPoint.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Page 29 for the money quote:

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/C92R8W6B8E38/$file/G-1%20Boundaries%20and%20Elem%20Immersion%20Feeders-%20PowerPoint.pdf

I think it’s full steam ahead. They didn’t plan for the Ed Center to be a separate program on purpose so they could share facilities with WL. It’s supposedly going to be used to increase the WL IB program, with the thought that parents will trade off on their kids going to a mega school to get access to IB. It was always a stupid plan but nobody cared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Page 29 for the money quote:

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/C92R8W6B8E38/$file/G-1%20Boundaries%20and%20Elem%20Immersion%20Feeders-%20PowerPoint.pdf

I think it’s full steam ahead. They didn’t plan for the Ed Center to be a separate program on purpose so they could share facilities with WL. It’s supposedly going to be used to increase the WL IB program, with the thought that parents will trade off on their kids going to a mega school to get access to IB. It was always a stupid plan but nobody cared.

But it sounds like even the Superintendent admits it’s too big? Won’t he consider alternatives?

[Anonymous]

I think it will be full steam ahead. This was one of our deciding factors to not go the IB transfer route.

[Anonymous]

I think only about 150 kids are being added from Wakefield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think only about 150 kids are being added from Wakefield.

For 9th grade. 150 per year for the next 4 years. Also expanded IB admission

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think only about 150 kids are being added from Wakefield.

For 9th grade. 150 per year for the next 4 years. Also expanded IB admission

How is that possible unless the area near Penrose being redistricted has that many kids each year? The transfer waitlist for IB in the past 2 hasn't been that long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think only about 150 kids are being added from Wakefield.

For 9th grade. 150 per year for the next 4 years. Also expanded IB admission

How is that possible unless the area near Penrose being redistricted has that many kids each year? The transfer waitlist for IB in the past 2 hasn't been that long.

There won't be many transfers, it will remain small for several years, unless the new Red Top and American Legion buildings yield lots of high school students. Are there many affordable housing units there?

[Anonymous]

I have heard about the expansion of the IB program but I haven't heard anything about increasing the IB teaching staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have heard about the expansion of the IB program but I haven't heard anything about increasing the IB teaching staff.

Haha, I’m sure they can have larger class sizes just like colleges…

[Anonymous]

There’s nothing left to do. The kids have to go somewhere. You can thank Kanninen for this half-baked idea. Too bad we didn’t have a school board with the vision to build a real HS 5+ years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s nothing left to do. The kids have to go somewhere. You can thank Kanninen for this half-baked idea. Too bad we didn’t have a school board with the vision to build a real HS 5+ years ago.

you can blame the school board - I'll blame the county board

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Page 29 for the money quote:

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/C92R8W6B8E38/$file/G-1%20Boundaries%20and%20Elem%20Immersion%20Feeders-%20PowerPoint.pdf

I think it’s full steam ahead. They didn’t plan for the Ed Center to be a separate program on purpose so they could share facilities with WL. It’s supposedly going to be used to increase the WL IB program, with the thought that parents will trade off on their kids going to a mega school to get access to IB. It was always a stupid plan but nobody cared.

People cared. They just refuse to be districted away from WL. So they keep whining about the size but expect APS to fix the enrollment without actually changing the boundary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Page 29 for the money quote:

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/C92R8W6B8E38/$file/G-1%20Boundaries%20and%20Elem%20Immersion%20Feeders-%20PowerPoint.pdf

I think it’s full steam ahead. They didn’t plan for the Ed Center to be a separate program on purpose so they could share facilities with WL. It’s supposedly going to be used to increase the WL IB program, with the thought that parents will trade off on their kids going to a mega school to get access to IB. It was always a stupid plan but nobody cared.

People cared. They just refuse to be districted away from WL. So they keep whining about the size but expect APS to fix the enrollment without actually changing the boundary.

It’s not like the other high schools are crowded too. It was districting it was the willl to build #4