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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread has convinced me that a choice program at W-L at the ed center might not be that bad -- if they set it up as a completely separate school that shared the same campus.  There would still be contention for shared resources such as the cafeteria and gym but at least there would be equity for extra curriculars.  The ninth grade academy is definitely not equitable/fair for W-L kids, having a HB like program there though might be.  [/quote]

How is it equitable if the field and sports teams would have a HS student population of 4000?  Not to mention it's the smallest of the 3 HS campuses.  If the other HS's are only 2800 or so total then we're talking 30% larger student population on much smaller fields, etc.  [/quote]
For HB, the kids come from all across the county and then go back to their home school for sports teams.  If we did something like that, where its a "choice school" that happens to be co-located with W-L (like another HB, or an HB and a world languages program that is open county wide), it would pull from all over the county and the kids would go back to their home school for sports.  Kind of sucks for those kids, but they made the decision to go to a choice program instead of their neighborhood school, and the effect on W-L is minimized then. Think like discovery and williamsburg being co-located.   They could even stagger start times to minimize the effect on traffic since effectively they would be two independent schools.  If they built a new gym for them in the ed center, and the only shared resource was the cafeteria/field space for gym class, then I think this would probably be the best option.

The main thing is figuring out a way where W-L doesn't end up a 4000 kid school, which is unfair to the kids that go there.  Or making a poor kids school at Kenmore -- I totally agree with the other posters that we are setting that school and its kids up for failure if it only pulls from the poorer parts of town.  [/quote]

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