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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As for the reference to a college office, here is the quote

. [i]Spaces [b]such as[/b] the writing center, math center,
tech support, help desk, teen wellness and college and career center should be located in a designated and
accessible space. [/i]

This is general guidance for the architects about having space for centers like this, NOT a commitment to a college center in each HS building.   This is a good example of how you are stretching items in this document.[/quote]

That interpretation would require ignoring the other multiple provisions, and would also require disregarding the fact that the unanimous, repeated, explicit 9-12 declaration is the only plan presented to the School Board, discussed by them, adopted, or even mentioned in the entire document set.  [/quote]

We seem to be going in circles.  Everything you claim that points to a 9-12 school being already decided on, seems to me like a stretch. You then support your interpretation by mentioning other points.   [/quote]

So the primary quotes, including "high schools that serve students in grades nine through 12 at a comprehensive campus" as the sole goal, don't mean what they say?  
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it says "desires to provide".  That is not a specification, it is background.  It does not mean that in the event of constraints - which IMO could include cost, availability of RE, and even issues with equitably zoning two distinct high schools, they might not give up on that desire.

Do you think that, in principle, apart from the above considerations they should desire to seperate 9-10 from 11-12?   Do any other school systems around here do that?[/quote]

1.  That's one of several aligned quotes.  
2.  There is --NO-- other option even being considered.  
3.  Alexandria used to be 9/10 and 11/12.  
4.  Other divisions don't have the same number of high schoolers in concentrated geography that all want to mix-and-match programs and have access to the city.  Why shouldn't they?

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1. Each and every reading of the other quotes by you is tortured. Again, we are going in circles
2. Again, this is not a discussion of options. Its specs, to guide an architect. 99% of what is in the document would apply equally to a 9-10 and 11-12 school.  Its just these few quotes, which aren't really very interesting to an architect.  Again, if they choose to go with a split by grade instead of geography for whatever reason, this document would not at all prevent that.
3. Yes, and it might remain that way. Or not.
4.  Do we know how many want "mix and match" programs?  Is it harder to get from one part of say, Arlington, to another than from one part of Alexandria to another? [/quote]

Actually, they're not at all limited to or oriented around guiding an architect.  They literally direct a TC split into 9-12 schools (consistent with the TC reorganization that was just announced as the lead-up).  The mandatory, unanimous educational specifications are explicitly "for all project stakeholders: students, parents, and families; faculty and administrators; civic leaders and community members; and project design and construction partners."  And rather than "guide" the architects, they do the reverse, delivering no instructions at all to the architects:  "leaving ample flexibility for creativity and options in design by the architects".  And the idea that Alexandria's high school organization "might remain that way. Or not" provides no basis to upend a high school organization that works now, and is upsetting only to several activists on the school board and a tiny handful of residents that would like to exclude the West End's children from full access to all ACPS high school resources.  The extent to which Alexandria is mis-served by the school board is truly shocking, and on that nearly everyone agrees.

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It guides everyone, in planning for the physical layout. That is what all the material is about.  And yes, it gives flexibility, you tell archs the specs you need, and then let them creatively put it together.   That is how these kinds of processes work.

No, it does not literally direct a split, because this is a spec for facility plans, NOT  directive about organization.

And the current organization may work now, but does not provide capacity for a growing HS population. And something like the current org would still work as numbers increase, and with an enlarged 9-10 campus replacing Minnie Howard, is an open question.

Also of course, if we DID have two high schools, it is odd to call that "excluding West End children for all ACPS hs resources" as east end children would also not have access to the West End school (assuming the split would be that simple)

As for everyone agreeing, then its odd that the current members of the school bd won election. Clearly not everyone agrees.[/quote]

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