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We have a capacity crisis. HB is a boutique program and the new building is going to cost 100mil to house 1000 kids. County is using it as part of Rosslyn revitalization. I'm all for investment in infrastructure, but the whole thing is off the rails.  We need a fourth comprehensive high school. It sucks for the HB people, because they didn't want to move. It's so messed up. [/quote]

Yes, look at the APS CIP that just passed. It includes $100M for 775 "seats" at HB. As a point of comparison, the CIP includes just $8M to add 600 "seats" to Yorktown and W-L (which might just mean more trailers).  CIP here-- http://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/APS-CIP-16-Report-1.6-WEB_FINAL.pdf

And to tie this all back to the college discussion, the acceptance rates at HB aren't any higher than at Yorktown or W-L. So what are we spending all this money to accomplish?  We're getting a really expensive building but not a better educational program.[/quote]

But H-B would have stayed where it was for $0. That decision was not made by the school. [/quote]

It's terrible, but that doesn't mean we should be spending a fortune on HB. It's totally not fair to HB. It's also not fair to the taxpayers and the rest of APS. [/quote]

Agreed but north Arlington parents weren't going to send their middle schoolers to Rosslyn, so here we are.[/quote]

Those of us in Clarendon/Courthouse/Lyon Park/Ashton Heights did not have issues at ALL with that scenario.[/quote]

I'm in Ashton Heights and had a problem with a middle school in the Rosslyn location -- not because of the student population (after all, I'm very happy with my kids at TJ) -- but because that space simply wasn't big enough to accommodate a 1300 seat middle school.  Even with the smaller HB program they are talking about the lack of parking in the area for school events.  Plus adding buses for a big middle school to the usual rush hour traffic would have been a nightmare.  The location makes a lot more sense for a smaller program esp. for high school kids who have an open campus.[/quote]

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