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[quote=Anonymous][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]
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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]

But if you actually read these posts, or bothered to learn anything about it you'd see it's not just some sort of "random program." And I'm not sure why the name itself is some dead giveaway of a grand conspiracy to hoodwink APS parents. Just because a program is new doesn't make it bad. And geez, have you heard the complaints from W-L parents about the bulging size of their school? AT certainly isn't the building most in danger of becoming a warehouse. [/quote]

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