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[quote=Anonymous]I think its really misguided to assume that just declaring the new Career Center space a second HB, or any other choice program will somehow make people want to go there.  Arlington Tech is already under-enrolled.  There is an entire thread on this board about why people aren't signing up for Arlington Tech and the most common response is the lack of sports/arts/amenities.  Why would an extra 2000 students volunteer to go there when they can't get 300 students to want to go there? Even with a different curriculum option?

And the thing that always gets ignored about HB is that they have facilities and amenities!  If you look at HB they have a really strong performing arts focus and have facilities to match that. That new HB school will have field space, an indoor gym, art studio, big theatre, separate black box studio, drama room, orchestra room and a kiln room. The program has 5 dedicated stories for 700 students an enormously expensive brand new building. No wonder the wait list is a million years long. The current CIP plan for the Career Center is throw a new story on a dilapidated building and build 1 room that is both a gym and theater for over twice the number students.  No fields, no anything else. No one is going to run to sign up for that no matter how many times they call it a second HB. Cause it won't be a 2nd HB.  And just calling it STEM isn't going to trick families into sending their kids there either. Not without state of the art science or tech facilities (robotics rooms, science labs, ect.)

I've even heard talk of making it a performing arts choice school. With no auditorium. Or rehearsal space. Again who is going to sign up for that?

The school board/county are trying to build the cheapest lowest quality school they can get away with and pretending that people will choose to attend it is ridiculous. If they aren't forced to build a quality school, then overcrowding and lack of opportunities will impact every high school student when the neighborhood schools are overloaded and the Career Center is still empty. 
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