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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Arlington Tech the one on S. Walter Reed by the library? I had no idea this was an regular high school. I thought it was either for 'problem students' or, as others have said, a vocational school.[/quote]

Yes, this is north of Columbia Pike, the Career Center parcel with the library, and Patrick Henry elementary school. 
Big changes are coming to that location over the next years.[/quote]

There are actually several programs housed there:

Arlington Tech high school
Career Center classes for students from the other high schools -- they can bus over during the day to take a wide variety of classes (Arl Tech is an outgrowth of that program)
PEP - program for employment preparedness, a program for students with intellectual disabilities
HILT Institute - high intensity language program for HS students
Alternatives for Parenting Teens Program -- for teen mothers, includes on-site childcare
Academic Academy - this I believe is the "problem students" program

Elementary and middle school students can also take enrichment classes there on Saturdays and summers.  I highly recommend those.  My daughter loves the animal science classes and plans to do those as electives in 11th-12th grade.  She won't do the Tech program because she wants to play in band.

Arlington Tech HS program is planned to grow to 800 students and then another 700-800 HS seats will be added.  They haven't explained exactly how that's going to work but sounds like Tech will essentially be a school-within-a-school along with the other 800.  That's good because right now the AT kids have to go to their home school for sports and don't have opportunities to do music classes during the school day.   They are going to have to build something new there.  It's been really unclear to me how they are going to handle the Tech expansion in the next couple years along with planning for the larger build.  They need to add space this summer for the larger freshman class next year.[/quote]

No thanks. Not sacrificing my kid just because APS can’t plan and needs to warehouse students in some random program. The fact they just slapped the “Arlington Tech” name on it is a giveaway.[/quote]

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