APS 4th HS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They just look saw drawn and seem overwhelmed. Such a small county school system and yet so maddeningly difficult to operate.

How about they hire people who can do basic math. The screwed up the numbers a few times during the hs boundary farce and look at the huge cluster fuck with mckinley. If they are do overwhelmed then they should stop trying to re-do all the elementary schools. Just build a new hs already and I mean a real one not some stupid as one on wl campus.

It's not that easy. There is a large population in Arlington that has no interest in a fourth HS on the scale of Yorktown, W-L, and Wakefield, and the APS board and administrators bow and scrape to please their masters.

Wow, didn't know there was that level of opposition to it. Do you mean Arlington residents w/o kids, or retirees whose kids are already grown? They don't want a 4th school because they don't want to pay for it?

Despite our county's tiny size by comparison, our incredibly high number of overpopulated schools (23 elementaries!), 80% of Arlington households are without kids!!!

[Anonymous]

The Kenmore campus is 32 acres (same as Wakefield), so presumably there would be room for a football stadium there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They just look saw drawn and seem overwhelmed. Such a small county school system and yet so maddeningly difficult to operate.

How about they hire people who can do basic math. The screwed up the numbers a few times during the hs boundary farce and look at the huge cluster fuck with mckinley. If they are do overwhelmed then they should stop trying to re-do all the elementary schools. Just build a new hs already and I mean a real one not some stupid as one on wl campus.

It's not that easy. There is a large population in Arlington that has no interest in a fourth HS on the scale of Yorktown, W-L, and Wakefield, and the APS board and administrators bow and scrape to please their masters.

Wow, didn't know there was that level of opposition to it. Do you mean Arlington residents w/o kids, or retirees whose kids are already grown? They don't want a 4th school because they don't want to pay for it?

Despite our county's tiny size by comparison, our incredibly high number of overpopulated schools (23 elementaries!), 80% of Arlington households are without kids!!!

Where'd this stat come from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They just look saw drawn and seem overwhelmed. Such a small county school system and yet so maddeningly difficult to operate.

How about they hire people who can do basic math. The screwed up the numbers a few times during the hs boundary farce and look at the huge cluster fuck with mckinley. If they are do overwhelmed then they should stop trying to re-do all the elementary schools. Just build a new hs already and I mean a real one not some stupid as one on wl campus.

It's not that easy. There is a large population in Arlington that has no interest in a fourth HS on the scale of Yorktown, W-L, and Wakefield, and the APS board and administrators bow and scrape to please their masters.

Wow, didn't know there was that level of opposition to it. Do you mean Arlington residents w/o kids, or retirees whose kids are already grown? They don't want a 4th school because they don't want to pay for it?

Despite our county's tiny size by comparison, our incredibly high number of overpopulated schools (23 elementaries!), 80% of Arlington households are without kids!!!

Where'd this stat come from?

That's from the census, you can see it here: https://arlingtonva.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2016/04/2016ProfilePagesFINAL.pdf (page 3)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Kenmore campus is 32 acres (same as Wakefield), so presumably there would be room for a football stadium there.

gosh WHY MUST THERE BE a DAMN FOOTBALL STADIUM at EVERY HS???!!! PRIORITIES PEOPLE!!!

yes i'm yelling!

[Anonymous]

I was responding to concerns expressed above that there wouldn't be. If you could explain what your concerns are, instead of simply yelling, that might be more helpful. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Kenmore campus is 32 acres (same as Wakefield), so presumably there would be room for a football stadium there.

gosh WHY MUST THERE BE a DAMN FOOTBALL STADIUM at EVERY HS???!!! PRIORITIES PEOPLE!!!

yes i'm yelling!

Football builds a community more than any other sport. It's the American past time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Kenmore campus is 32 acres (same as Wakefield), so presumably there would be room for a football stadium there.

gosh WHY MUST THERE BE a DAMN FOOTBALL STADIUM at EVERY HS???!!! PRIORITIES PEOPLE!!!

yes i'm yelling!

Football builds a community more than any other sport. It's the American past time.

Just take out the word football.

Spectators for many other sports at the 3 Arlington high schools use the stadium in addition to football.

Then there's the added bonus (duh!) that the stadium surrounds an athletic field that people from across the county use about 20 hours a day when the students aren't using it.

Then there's the fact that competition for the use of the county owned athletic fields is increasing because of all the various youth (and more students in the county equals more students playing sports) through adult leagues that use them so having an athletic field at the 4th HS would be very good not just for its students but for anyone in the county that plays/runs/uses an outdoor athletic fields.

[Anonymous]

But but but MY kids don't play sports- so it's not important. Ah.... Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Kenmore campus is 32 acres (same as Wakefield), so presumably there would be room for a football stadium there.

gosh WHY MUST THERE BE a DAMN FOOTBALL STADIUM at EVERY HS???!!! PRIORITIES PEOPLE!!!

yes i'm yelling!

Obnoxious.

[Anonymous]

i'm the yeller.

all i'm saying is, don't make a football stadium a requirement for the 4HS and see if that opens up more sensible and feasible options.

and no my kids don't play football but we do go to HS games. it's not important enough for me to care either way but go to the football thread on the Sports forum and you'll see many don't think it's important either. five years from now there'll be even more people don't care, if the trend holds.

[Anonymous]

I hear you but it more than just football, as others have pointed out. It is access to all sorts of curricular and extracurricular offerings that a comprehensive high school provides. We will simply have too many students for everyone to have a chance at participating if we only have 3 high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear you but it more than just football, as others have pointed out. It is access to all sorts of curricular and extracurricular offerings that a comprehensive high school provides. We will simply have too many students for everyone to have a chance at participating if we only have 3 high schools.

such as? also those don't require 32-acre land i don't think.

[Anonymous]

There are plenty of other places that have stand-alone high schools with 1300 students and they manage to have sports, arts, extra-curriculars. I don't see why a HS has to be 2000+ to be seen as offering the appropriate range of opportunities, other than what a lack of outdoor space would mean for sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Despite our county's tiny size by comparison, our incredibly high number of overpopulated schools (23 elementaries!), 80% of Arlington households are without kids!!!

This is a bit misleading, though. Of the 25% who don't have kids, they don't break it down by which ones expect to have kids within the next 15yrs, as opposed to empty nesters. These are families that aren't yet likely paying huge amounts of attention to the schools, but moved here "because the schools are good" so in theory care at least a bit.