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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They need to build another highschool that is NOT within walking distance from each other. Like clear across the city. There are way too many teens in one place. [/quote]

Hammond or GW should reopen as high schools—the city used to have three—but I think the city blocked it. Some say it’s to preserve the civil rights legacy, but cost may also be a factor. One large high school is more efficient in terms of dollars and cents. [/quote]

You are right. The next two rebuilds - George Mason and Cora Kelly - need to be big enough to be PK-8th. That's the plan being discussed for George Mason but needs to be the same at Cora Kelly. GW can go back to being a high school. [/quote]

ACPS has a real opportunity to relieve some of the pressure at the middle schools and the high school with that half a billion they have to spend over the next 9 years.

They are discussing making the North Beauregard building into a middle school after it serves as swing space for the George Mason and Cora Kelly rebuilds. With central office and the school board discussing turning George Mason into a middle school too (irresponsible not to with such a small and getting significantly smaller population) that would really make an impact. Just those two schools would be seats for 1300 more middle school kids. And GM could certainly be bigger than the 130,000 square feet/700 kids they are planning for now if they would fully knock down the entire old building.

If they would do that and stop letting transfers out of J-H for middle school - GW could become a high school again. [/quote]

If you stop the transfers out of J-H then suddenly the UMC parents and Alexandria government will be pushing for charter schools.[/quote]

And I guess we know the plan for GWMS based on what is being reported and deleted. [/quote]

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