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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I don't get it why Kenmore has to be a neighborhood HS.  If it won't have all the ammenities in the beginning, why not make it an option school?  Then, those who don't care about a pool or would prefer a smaller school, can elect to go there.  It seems so obvious![/quote]

When it is first built as 1300 seats it won't be a neighborhood school. [/quote]

So the equity argument isn't valid.[/quote]

APS and the School Board have explicitly stated that IF the Kenmore or Career Center sites are chosen, they would have a defined boundary. I don't believe they have explained WHY it could not be a choice program in either of those locations, but that is what they have decided.  [/quote]

This makes no sense to me.  If it's only a 1300 seat school,[b] why can't it be a choice program?  [/b]I get that we will need another neighborhood school,but if the budget only allows for a "less than" school at THIS time, making it choice makes sense.  Then, when they get more $/land, it can be converted to the full size and made into a neighborhood school.

This waiting until the next CIP idea is the same type of incompetence that got us in this situation.[/quote]

The trouble with a 1300 choice program is what will have the demand to immediately fill 1300 seats to relieve capacity when it is needed?  I recall earlier info did talk about choice programs but there's been so much push about the need for a neighborhood school that the CC and Kenmore options were proposed to be neighborhood schools but they're still stuck with a funding/land/size situation that makes it hard to build an equitable comprehensive HS.

It was mentioned at the CCPTA meeting this week that whatever the decision, that new school would have some sort of 'focus' in addition to pulling from the neighborhood so it sounds like it would allow for some degree of transfer into it (just as WL has IB and Wakefield has immersion and AP Capstone).  It was suggested that a Kenmore HS might continue the Arts/Communications focus that currently exists at the MS and a HS at the CC would naturally have a science/tech focus since Arlington Tech is already there.[/quote]

Why not make it a new HB?  I live near WL now and think 4000 hs students in that tiny campus would be horrible.  I would definitely send my kid to Kenmore more if it was another B.B.
  Also, do a damn lottery then for the new school boundary so groups like Arlington Forrest can't lobby the SB. Personally I was not offended because every parent should be able to advocate for their kid. I am more offended by the damn Nottingham pta woman who tries to keep her school under crowded while others are crammed like McKinley,but I digress.

The whole process sucks.  Why not provide options with more info so people aren't pushing gor plans with incorrect assumptions.  For example, let us work with the correct numbers 2800 in kenmore not 3800.  Also, telling glencqrlyn that all of the space near them will be taken up so start with a vision now before having it happen in a haphazard way. And letting other parents who live outside if elected now know the rezoning could move more kids into the edcenter.
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