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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do we know if the only options are either a fourth high school or attending high school in shifts. I don't think so. On the W-L PTA survey I supported the 9th grade academy. Is that still in play?

I agree that the county and the school board need to work together on this issue. [/quote]

The draft proposal from the superintendent has a number of smaller fixes including 300 additional seats at Yorktown and Wkaefield, some redistributing and other small improvements. The total seats however is still only 1,200, far shy of the needed amount. [/quote]

How does a 9th grade academy solve this?  Do we really want all the ninth graders to be at a different site?[/quote]

No. According to the PTA's description, it would be an addition onto W-L so the school would be around 2,900 students which used to be the size of the school years ago (details were on the survey form). The survey results showed a lot of support for that idea and also boundary changes. Shift scheduling was the least popular. I don't think anyone will take that idea seriously. [/quote]

I read the proposal as being renovating the education center -- which is a separate building -- into a 9th grade academy with its own common spaces.  So, that's not the same as an addition to W-L.  And the location makes sense since it's in the center of the county.[/quote]

The addition would be for W-L only and would mostly house 9th graders but they would not be fully separated from the rest of the school. I don't know anything about an idea for a county-wide 9th grade academy. That's not what was explained to me. I think its safe to assume that similar additions could be built at the other high schools in the future, but only W-L has looked at the concept seriously because the school needs the space. It would be nice if APS could knock down the Ed Center and build right there. [/quote]

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