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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the County is going to get rid of swim requirements for all high schools then cool, no need to build one at the CC site.  At this point I'm probably in favor of that.  But if swimming is a requirement then that site needs a pool. If not then every student at every other high school needs to forced to sit in silence without the ability to do homework or be taught for an hour every swimming day too so that they lose an equivalent amount of education time to the CC kids who are stuck sitting on buses. Otherwise you are saying the kids who go to the CC don't deserve the same amount of instruction as everyone else.

As for the previous discussion about building up at an existing school one of the issues with doing that or with making the career center choice is with available slots for extra curriculars. When each school is 3000 - 4000 or more students that is alot of competition for a limited amount of slots in a band, or on a sports team or choir or school.  Every student in APS high schools will be negatively impacted by fewer chances to do extra-curriculars. This was one of WL's big objections to expanding at the Education Center building or whatever its called. A 4th school balances opportunities among an enormous student population.

And as far as demographics - that last redistricting moved people from WL to Wakefield who were located along the east pike, in a historically black neighborhood, and were more diverse and of a lower socio-economic grouping. So if we are going to demand that the CC and Wakefield play nice and try to equally balance diversity amongst themselves, then WL, the school that just got whiter and richer, needs to participate in that too instead of name calling the one neighborhood not going all NIMBY at the thought of a new school.  I don't even know what you do about Yorktown's diversity? Move IB there? [/quote]

It is not possible to balance Yorktown or W-L without some crazy boundaries, especially after the CC HS opens and a lot of South Arlington except for the SW gets pulled out of Wakefield. Wakefield then will have to be filled with SW, which currently goes to W-L and provides a good chunk of their diversity. At the very least, the CC boundary cannot take all of SE Arlington. Nauck has to stay at Wakefield to keep a contiguous boundary so that Crystal City and Pentagon City remain zoned Wakefield. That would allow balance between the two South Arlington HS. [/quote]

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