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[quote=Anonymous]Murphy unveiled his Capital Improvement Plan to the school board last week.  His proposal to deal with high school overcrowding through 2020 (when there is an estimated deficit of 1,260 high school seats) includes adding space for 300 more students at both Yorktown and Wakefield, redrawing boundaries beginning in fall of 2017 for incoming freshmen and adding 600 new seats to the career center for the brand new county-wide Arlington Tech program.  By 2025 there will be an estimated 2,775 deficit of high school seats.  His proposed options to deal with overcrowding after 2020 include (but are not limited to) adopting alternative scheduling such as mutli-track year round school and double shifts at the high schools and constructing additions to the 3 existing high schools so that their capacity is increased to anywhere between 2,600 and 3,000 students.

Does anyone think 600 students will attend Arlington Tech by 2020?  The incoming class this fall is only around 40 students.  Yes, I know it is the first year of the program but still, will it grow from 40 to 600 in 4 years? Would the school board really adopt double shifts or multi-track year round school?  The survey that the W-L PTA took shows that parents and teachers are very much against alternative scheduling.  Does HB Woodlawn stay immune from what the rest of the schools have to deal with? What does this do to APS' reputation?

All you APS parents with children still in elementary school who think high school is a million years from now, pay attention.[/quote]

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