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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, if what Meren says is correct about delaying the opening, why didn't Reid mention that at the Saturday meeting?

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Because the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing? Idk I’ve worked in plenty of dysfunctional organizations and this all seems pretty par for the course, lots of people making statements that may or may not be true and never checking with anyone else first, lots of abrupt deadline changes, lots of “well let’s fold in this slightly related but ultimately not core project into this larger project so we can fix both things at the same time” muddying the waters. [/quote]

DP. It might be somewhere in the middle. At the Chantilly meeting, Reid said they still wanted to do a soft open in 2026 but they would focus on finishing the county wide study first before looking at the KAA boundaries early next year. [/quote]

What is a “soft open” for a high school?  How would people have any idea what they are signing their kids up for, other than that it wouldn’t have VHSL sports?

I’ve yet to see a compelling reason why they shouldn’t delay opening Western until it has three grades, with only juniors given an automatic option to remain at their current schools.  [/quote]

It sounded like they wanted to let anyone who wants to go there attend, whether in boundary or not. Not sure what grades specifically. [/quote]

I understand but that’s still incoherent from a planning perspective.  They gear up to offer the standard course of studies to 500 kids?  What happens if you’re out of boundary and you send your kid to Western but they adopt boundaries later?  Does your kid get booted?

The School Board needs to grow a spine and squelch Reid Charter before it opens. [/quote]

There is no reason they cannot open next year--except that these people do not know how to plan anything.

Schools destroyed by tornadoes, etc, manage to open elsewhere under much more difficult circumstances.

They can open next year and have JV sports teams.  It just takes someone being pro-active on this.  Or, open with ninth grade and Freshman sports.  [/quote]

One challenge with this is that freshmen coming out of Carson have very different academic needs.  You'll have the kids who should have gotten into TJ ready for higher-level math courses and kids needing remedial math to be ready for Algebra I.  The smaller Western opens, the more challenging it becomes to build a schedule that accommodates these diverse requirements. [/quote]

Plenty of kids come out of MS needing Algebra 2 across the region and a smaller number needing Pre Calc in 9th grade. Plenty of kids come out of MS needing third year foreign language because they start a language as 7th graders. They know this and those classes will be offered. They are preparing for 9th and 10th grade, so I am sure that they are aware that they have to offer classes for kids who were advanced in math in MS, so needing Pre Calc and Calculus. Most HS math teachers can teach Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus.

I would expect the class sizes to be smaller because of people opting to send their kid to the other HS option. The school knows that they will need the teachers to teach the classes as the school grows, so they bring in enough teachers to offer all the classes needed by the 9th and 10th graders, which will include the more advanced math and foreign language classes. There will be fewer sections, initially, so one teacher teaches a few more levels of language and math.

The one concern I have is the JI program coming out of FM would need a home at the new school. I suspect that they can meet that with a class in Japanese 3 and 4 and bringing the Japanese teacher from Carson over to the school for the Japanese classes. [/quote]

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