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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve had 3 at WL and one at private HS.  First, don’t judge APS HS by MS.  My 2 who graduated from WL are in college and grad school now in STEM fields and felt well prepared by the AP and IB classes at WL. They are at schools that any Arlington parent would be thrilled to have their child to attend.  My DC who went private needed a different environment to thrive in for HS. Extremely bright and needs a close relationship with her teachers to be engaged.  That’s not easy to come by at WL, unfortunately. My current DC is a junior at WL.  His class sizes have definitely been larger than older siblings but still excellent dedicated teachers for the most part.  Since he is a serious athlete I’m ok with more competition to get on the teams; maybe WL will finally have better sports teams in a few years.  As far as VL for Arlington HSs, that’s here to stay, regardless of the school, and should include HB. The SB has been advocating that for over a decade as a way to deal with overcrowding and this past year’s experiment will be the excuse for it to become the norm. [/quote]

I think recent past it a good school, but adding 1000 more kids seems like will sink it.

We understand sports can be competitive, but things like drama will be cut sports essentially [/quote]

They are not going to add 1000 students.  The Ed Center that is being remodeled will “only” fit 500 and was designed and is being built so that it can also function as an ES.  I am on one of the APS committees that is involved with this.  My prediction after being very involved with APS for almost 20 years is instead of re-doing boundaries for the 3 high schools, will each grow in student size but a portion of each HS student’s classes will be virtual in order to not spend money on construction or trailers. The SB has wanted that for a long time and now the virtual learning and financial impact of the pandemic have the excuse.[/quote]

The projections are for 1000 students. They aren’t adding them, they are already here. So student body will be 1000 more students but at any given day 700 will be virtual?

That I guess helps space, but we all hate DL and that will be concurrent right? And DL doesn’t address extracurricular scarcity. [/quote]

The 1000 students may already be here but are they all in the WL boundary?  Yes, most of us hate DL. APS ES parents have been arguing throughout the pandemic that HS could easily and should stay virtual, that HS students are last priority to return.  Be careful what you wish for or current ES students may have a partial virtual HS experience for 4 years, not one or two.
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