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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's interesting how a lot of the people on AEM and elsewhere who have been arguing vehemently for a fourth comprehensive high school are now losing their minds over the idea that a fourth comprehensive high school will mean sacrificing other projects. How did they think it would happen?[/quote]

I'm guessing they were really just thinking about land, or thinking that this would be easiest- not thinking about building cost.

I was sort of ambivalent/skeptical about the 4th HS prior to watching this- I am now firmly opposed.   
I moved into the 'no' camp after hearing that;
 1) [b]they are only planning 800 neighborhood seats- that's a tiny amount of students to demand full HS amenities[/b]- especially the pool.
2) It would mean that other much needed projects could not be done.
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It's not a tiny amount of students on that campus.  It's 300 CTE students coming in shifts (900 per day), 600 Arlington Tech students, 150 other full-day students (PEP, HILT, Academic Academy, Parenting Teens), 800 more (option or neighborhood) students IN THE FIRST PHASE with 1500 more seats planned in a high-rise building in subsequent phases, and 350 Arlington Community High School students.  (And this is not counting the 500+ Montessori students who will be moving in).  It's literally the most-concentrated population of students on the smallest piece of land in Arlington. [/quote]

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