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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]

The original plan was for a 1300 seat MS on the site, so yes, a 1300-seat HB would fit. And adding 600 seats is more than is being proposed for any other school addition.

Adding that many seats would mean adding about 340 high school seats and 260 middle school seats. It's not that different from the proposed additions at the MS and HS, but adding floors while you're building is a lot less expensive than putting additions on existing buildings, which APS is probably also going to do. [/quote]

Well let's do it then. But I wonder if this is the smartest way to use political capital. Reopening this discussion means waging a big fight. Is there enough time/energy/political capital to fight that fight while also fighting for a school at the VH site? And/or fighting for a take back of a former school or two? I suspect not but YMMV.[/quote]

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