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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in a Yorktown unit not far from WL boundaries and I would fight tooth & nail if we were redistricted to [b]a less-than school[/b].[/quote]

Are you defining less-than by facilities or school demographics? What would keep you from "fighting tooth and nail"?[/quote]

PP from earlier.  This is why I suggested making another hb.  if not then do a blind lottery from all PUs near WL, which would include ours.  Then have a public drawing. Of course some balancing should be done it too dump all farms kids there. Efforts should be made to replicate WL's current demographics. If you don't know who ch school you will end up intou will most likely support equitable treatment for jenmore.

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I wouldn't mind having another HB mod,e program- clearly there's demand, and with high school enrollment growing And the chances of getting into HB are proportionally even smaller.  But I thought during the last go-round, when the decoision was made to move to Rosslyn, it was also decided that HB needs to be capped at around 700 (800?) kids (6th through 12th graders) or the model won't work.  I don't know how we would get 1300 high school seats out of an HB unless something was changed.[/quote]

No, the HB folks (who love how sheltered they are from all of this) claim it wouldn't work.  What's even more infuriating is that I was watching one of the recorded town hall meetings on this, and one stupid APS official claimed that parents don't want another HB.  i do NOT recall that being an actual question.  They also claimed that HS parents don't want a 4th comprehensive but more choice STEM programs.  That was NOT on the survey either.  They asked among these choice schools what types parents preferred.  Of course the majority of parents picked stem over arts/drama.

I cannot stand how disingenuous they all are.  why make us go through all of this etc (just like the HS boundary thing last Dec/Jan.) only to have them come up with an absurd result.

What are they going to do if they screw up the numbers once more (like McKinley or Yorktown) and it turns out there are several hundred more students instead of 1300.  isn't some of this predicated on the success of Arlington Tech?!  Will they just jam a few hundred more on WL?!!!!  WTF?  On what universe does this sound like a rational plan?

Wouldn't it be better to try and replicate an HB at Kenmore now, given the huge demand for it?  This way they could get tons of HS students interested in going to that location.  Eventually, they could expand that site to a full 4th comprehensive HS.

Also, among the planning units that are situated closely enough to Kenmore do a blind lottery so people can influence the school board (ie. orange shirts), and then every one would be invested in ensuring that HS is just as good as the others.  Also, make sure that it doesn't swing completely into poverty (aim for a WL demographic 33% to 35% FARMS) and then there will be another HS similar to WL and hopefully everyone can win.[/quote]

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