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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How real are these projected numbers? I know FCPS can be wildly wrong when predicting short-term and long-term numbers. Is APS really going to have that many additional high school students in just a couple years?

If those are real, reliable numbers, then[b] just build the fourth high school[/b]. Expensive, yes, but needed.[/quote]

Where?[/quote]

Turn the Fort Scott Park site into a high school.  It could even be called Fort Scott HS.[/quote]

I don't think parents appreciate the degree of community pushback there would be if APS tried to get the land needed to build another high school. MAYBE they could use the Henry/Career Center/Fenwick site, although the costs would prevent them from building anything else, and there are many needs, not just HS. Everything else they have built has been on land APS already owned -- or land that everyone probably thought they already owned (the TJ parking lot) -- and its still been a battle every time over parking, traffic, fields, lighting, historical preservation, green space, "open vistas" (I'm not kidding)....not to mention $$. There is no end of things the community can come up with to delay or prevent a project.

Most people  in Arlington -- 85% -- don't have kids in the schools. The school board's CIP may be the most realistic in terms of what is politically feasible--they just aren't going to be able to go out and get the majority of the voters on board with converting major swaths of parkland into new schools. Maybe if the Democratic leadership or the county board led the way they could get farther along, but we didn't elect 2 new county board members who are going to carry the water for the schools, so that opportunity is gone. The proposed CIP is probably what we are going to have to live with, unless people want to start agitating the hell out of the county board about the VA hospital land parcel over on Carlin Springs--that's a neutral piece of land (at least from a parks/schools perspective) and we don't see something that big come along very often.[/quote]

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