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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone help me make sense of their position. If you look at the 10 year projections, the school that will bear the disproportionate burden of the overcrowding in the next 10 years is Wakefield. This position of “if you don’t build us a full high school at the cost of $250 million, then build nothing” seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face.  Wakefield will be 1000 students over capacity. The students least likely to be able to opt out for private school.  This whole campaign seems ill-advised to me.  [/quote]

I live in Arlington Heights and am happy to answer any questions that you have.  The neighborhoods said from the very beginning that we would accept a 4th neighborhood high school [i]so long as [/i]it is equal to YT, WL, and WF.  We are and have always been opposed to an unequal neighborhood high school.  And APS knows this.

As to your questions about "build nothing,"  APS is already in the process of building more at the Career Center site.  Arlington Tech will be adding up to 600-800 seats:  200 additional seats are being added this summer, and then 250-450 later (probably through the addition of another story onto the Career Center building).  So we've never said absolutely no to APS's needs.

But we are saying no to anything more than that.  We already have in our neighborhood two high schools, 1 middle school, and (in 2019) 2 elementary schools.  On that 12 acre piece of land, when Arlington Tech is built out to 600-800 students, there will be approximately 2000-2200 option students on site (from preschoolers to adult high-school students).  They will be mostly all bused in--about 30 to 40 buses a day.

I could not imagine [b]any [/b]neighborhood saying, yes, pack even more kids in here with no green space, no fields, and no parking.   In my view, there's lots of places in Arlington where another choice school could go (e.g., empty office space, or how about all that acreage at Kenmore?).  I truly do not understand APS's need to stuff even more onto this lot.  It seems like a huge waste of money to me, where that money could be used to create lots of small high school programs through out the county.

I hope I answered your questions.  Please let me know if you have any further questions.

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I live in North Arlington, but have spent time at the Career Center site. I agree with the concerns raised by this PP. I would encourage everyone to visit the Career Center for context, because it is hard to understand what APS is asking for here if you have never actually seen the location. I don't even understand how APS is going to grow Arlington Tech to 800 students without allocating more money just for that effort. The Career Center doesn't have a gym or a library or an art room or a real cafeteria. (There is a kitchen that is used by the culinary students, but not a cafeteria.) How do you even have 800 Arlington Tech students full-time on the site without these basic amenities?[/quote]

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