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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone with kids at WL when it was almost 3000 students tell us what that is like?  Isn't harder to make sports teams, etc?  When do kids eat lunch?[/quote] Just ask any parent with kids in the large Fairfax County high schools. [/quote]

No high schools in FCPS have 3000 kids in 9-12, or as many freshmen as W-L has this year. Nice try to deflect from APS's overcrowding issues, though.[/quote]

NP here. I taught at Lake Braddock in FCPS when the high school portion was just shy of 3,000 students a few years ago. And currently, there are schools in FCPS that are larger than W-L that are also growing. APS just needs to build additions or new schools. As a teacher, I value class size over the type or size of the school. [/quote]

Let's make this simple. Neither Lake Braddock nor any other high school in FCPS has 3000 students, has a freshman class as big as W-L's, or is growing as fast as W-L.  And, when Lake Braddock's enrollment was at its peak, the school had far more capacity than either W-L or any other high school in APS has today.

So FCPS really is not relevant to how APS addresses its problems, except insofar as some parents will leave APS for FCPS soon if APS doesn't have a better plan for addressing overcrowding than multiple school shifts and distance learning.[/quote]

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