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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe it has already been decided.  I base this on what school board members have said during SB meetings in the past.  Although she is retired now, Emma Violand-Sanchez said the new school would be at the Ed Center and others have said the same.  Most "options" have already been decided, it seems.  Then the SB goes thru the fake listening and feedback process.  They may have a survey that is so poorly constructed that it will ensure that the SB can point to it and defend its decision.  If enough people freak out, they may be force to amend their decision - but that does not happen too often.  Its sad.  [/quote]

The area around W-L is already a zoo.  This will just make that worse.  And will this even be a real high school with its own sports teams and after-school activities?  T[b]hey are keen to suggest this will be a new 1300-student community school,[/b] but it's not clear who it would appeal to.  My kid might like to do IB, but not if she's being warehoused in the Ed Center and can no longer do track, etc.     [/quote]

The options laid out in the most recent deck make it clear that if they go with the Ed Center site then it will not be a community school but a combination of a "9th grade academy" and expansion of IB for W-L.  So, basically it's just making W-L ridiculously large.

The other two options (which I hope are still really under consideration!) are a community school at Kenmore or at the Career Center.  Both of those at least have the room to expand into an actual full-sized HS as capacity grows (assuming anything at the Career Center can also take advantage of the Patrick Henry site).  At 1300 kids, I would think you aren't going to be fielding a football team but could do other sports, music, etc.[/quote]

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