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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the career center ongoing debacle has been in the works for years.  I well remember back in 2016 attending all these community engagement meetings about where to site a 4th highschool.  Initially APS was looking at 2 sites- the Kenmore site and the ed center next door to W&L.   With kenmore there was the though of getting the vhc property across the street for the middle school.  With W&L there was the thought of getting access to the county property across Quincy.   
Then community engagement.  The well organized neighbors around Kenmore pitched a fit about traffic, Carlin Springs RD, lack of direct egress to 50, etc.
The ASFS parents (who could see the loss of their school site coming) somehow thought they were going to get the property across from W&L to expand ASFS? build a second ASFS? never totally clear- but organized in opposition, along with a whole bunch of W&L parents who were concerned that building there would just make W&L a massive school with no real separation (Which incidentally has in fact come to pass).
Then the career center neighbors came forward and ASKED for the 4th high school to be sited at the career center.   Apparently they thought that they could get a small sized neighborhood high school sited at the career center, but with all the community ammenities that come with a full sized high school- namely a swimming pool and a track.  
At various times APS has attempted to draw such a building- but it never has all the ammenities the neighbors want, and it is always massively too expensive (b/c of the need to build huge underground parking, and the difficulty of fitting all the desired stuff on such a small footprint.)
BUT APS has never quite been willing to just say, screw it, we do community 'engagement' too often and mistake a handful of well organized voices for the will of the community- if we need a new HS it needs to be at Kenmore.  So instead we are left with the career center mess.[/quote]

Want to say as one of the site neighbors I'm perfectly happy with Kenmore, but APS will never do it. APS drew it up and you can build a 4th HS at Career Center it just costs $200+ million. They don't want to spend that, so instead they are going to spend $170 million just for the CC, then another $50 million to renovate MPSA, which will cost the same amount of money when all is said and done, and we will never get a 4th HS, so the schools are all going to keep supersizing. Glad my kids are done with APS.[/quote]

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