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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought Arlington Tech is to become a dual enrollment program with NoVA community college for credit classes. More desirable to my DS to earn college credit rather than the empty promise of AP classes.[/quote]

This again aligns with a vocational focus. You take AP because of the rigor needed to pass the AP exam and what that represents as to your college readiness, not to get college credits to save money on tuition (because at elite colleges you don’t pay per credit hour, you just pay annual tuition and take even more advanced classes if you AP out)[/quote]

Oh. I did it wrong and graduated from college a year early.  Oopsies![/quote]

You were able to transfer dual enrollment courses to an Ivy League school and graduated early? They don’t do that anymore even for AP; and even 20 years ago DE were considered less than. [/quote]

Very few students get into Ivy League colleges. I wouldn’t base all of your planning on hoping that’s where your kid is headed. [/quote]

You just aren’t getting it. Huge swaths of Arlington are aiming for elite colleges; maybe they won’t make it, but they aren’t going to handicap their kids changes with vocational and dual enrollment pathways.  That’s my point. Arlington tech doesn’t address the capacity problem because it is not aspirational like TJHS.

AND THATS FINE. A vocational option is a good choice for many students, I’m just saying don’t point to Tech as in any way addressing the mainstream high school capacity crisis. It’s a specialized high school for a niche population. [/quote]
Stop calling it a vocational program. [/quote]

So the technical magnet programs like TJHS offer barbering and EMT pathways too??

https://careercenter.apsva.us/arlington-tech/program-information/
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It's a shared campus [/quote]

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