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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meanwhile HB Woodlawn has seen zero growth since moving to the new building. They still plan for just around 80 kids per MS grade and around 115 per HS grade. The lottery only accepted 75 6th graders and 26 9th graders (bringing the total 9th grade class next year to just 107 since they currently have 81 8th graders and I’m sure at least one or two will decide to move to another school). They really need to increase their enrollment to 100 per MS grade as promised when plans for them to move to the new building were being discussed.  HS grades should each be at 125 at a minimum. They would still be a small program with these numbers.   [/quote]

HB is a perfect example of APS's fraud, waste and abuse of tax payer dollars.[/quote]

Just stop it. All those kids would be back in the three comprehensive high schools if HB was still on Vacation Lane (where they wanted to stay) and that building was a neighborhood middle school, as originally proposed when they decided not to sell the land. And building it taller to hold more kids would have been cost-prohibitive. There are no fields.

If you have somewhere to put 900 middle and high schoolers, by all means, let us know where to build that school. [/quote]

WAH we had to give up one of the largest parcels of land APS owns for an architects blinged out brand new vanity project. We can’t possibly accept more students...

HB should have moved to office buildings; they play on home school sports, and can walk off campus anytime they want is an office setting would have been ideal. [/quote]

Great, let's walk this one through. Sounds like you are saying they should rent an office building, since APS doesn't own one they can use. So, we're paying commercial rents, in Arlington. And also somehow coming up with several million dollars to convert commercial space to educational space out of a current budget, because you can't use bond funds to pay for improvements to buildings that you don't own. And that conversion will include combining multiple floors order to put in a cafeteria, gym, and theater, not to mention renovating utilities to put in all the other things you need for a high school like science labs, art rooms, etc. And at the end of the lease we will have to pay several million dollars to put it all back to commercial space.

Can you smug people stop recycling these dumb ideas year after year after year? All of this stuff has been floated, and vetted, and determined to be more costly and more complicated and create less capacity and take more time than the alternatives. There are multiple citizen advisory groups and task forces in addition to full-time staff who work on these issues. If it were easier and cheaper to make the Wilson building bigger, or put HB in an office building, or whatever, THEY WOULD HAVE DONE THAT. All of the things they do they do because there is no clear better alternative. [/quote]

The Heights building cost $100M dollars.  They could have done all what you are talking about simply from the interest paid on that $100M.[/quote]

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