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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But won't the Career Center remain an option school, not a neighborhood school?  Is the school board's plan to require the Career Center, which I thought was being billed as a hands-on learning almost vo-tech type school with no arts or sports options on site as a neighborhood school for local residents?[/quote]

That's what the plan was. Now the immediate neighborhood sees an opportunity to grab the school for themselves to create a wealthier HS, for themselves. [/quote]

That is a very inaccurate picture of the neighborhood's advocacy.  The neighborhood wants a neighborhood comprehensive high school in addition to Arl Tech and Career Center. They are not trying to grab the Career Center's programming for itself.  And the Career Center is not the "hands-on learning almost vo-tech" program the commenter before you refers to.  The Career Center is career tech which also extends access to various classes and programs to the other high schools (pilot training, engineering, etc.).  Arlington Tech is a project-based learning program with AP class offerings (not full offerings, yet) and dual enrollment classes that gain students college credit.  Students have the potential of earning a year or more's worth of college credits by the time they finish.  The two programs integrate together; but Arl Tech students' diplomas still come from their home neighborhood school.

The immediate neighborhood is not trying to take-over these programs.  Rather, they are advocating for the expansion of the site to add a neighborhood comprehensive high school with all the amenities or access to the same amenities as the other three comprehensives.   [/quote]

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