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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If the three comprehensive high schools are increasing their student populations by 50% in a decade than so should HB.  It's absolutely ridiculous for that school to be in a protective bubble.  I don't care if their program doesn't work if there are 50% more kids attending it. [/b] 3,000 students at a high school doesn't work either.

A PP mentioned that Arlington tech should have been another HB.  But another HB would only put a small dent in the solving the high school overcrowding since HB only has 70-80 kids per grade. Need to find 1200 seats for high school in 4 years and double that in 9.[/quote]

This ship has sailed. They are building a new school for HB. They aren't going to increase enrollment beyond that which is already planned, or it too will be an overcrowded building. Focus your energy elsewhere. (And no, I'm not an HB parent.)

The VH parcel is absolutely critical. Can there really be serious consideration of any other use for this land?

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Who cares if HB's new building is overcrowded. So will be Wajefields new building and WL's not very old building and Yorktown's recently renovated building. [/quote]

How many extra students do you think they could cram in there? A hundred? Two hundred? That won't even put a dent in the number of seats needed.

People, seriously. Stop tilting at windmills. The HB decision has been made. Period. We cannot solve this problem by pushing a few more students into HB. Let's focus on real solutions.[/quote]

Once again the HB community shows itself to be the most selfish group around. Of course it's appropriate to reopen the discussion given the CRISIS that we are facing in APS and consider how additional students might be allowed to attend the school. [/quote]

The last few HB posts are by me. As I noted above, I'm not an HB parent. We have no more crisis today than we did many months back when the HB discussions were going on. I don't know why you think reopen in this discussion would solve the crisis. Let's say we decided to make HB a 1300-student school (doubling its size). Now what? Can it fit on the proposed site? And what do we do about the 1000+ seats we still need?

My kids are at W-L and Swanson, so trust me, I know from crowded schools.[/quote]

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