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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of the above... the school doesn't have a full set of fields and interior layout doesn't lend itself to a traditional high school.  Instead of spending TENS OF MILLIONS more to make it a traditional high school, house a variety of specialty and choice programs and academies (fine arts, AI and data science, aerospace, early childhood, IB, etc.). Attendance doesn't need to be limited exclusively to Western HS but obviously will be heavily slanted that way (can even reserve a minimum set of seats for other Western HS to ensure their capacity is addressed, though I think self-selection due to travel times will address this sufficiently).

This provides the needed capacity relief to western HS, expands and diversifies FCPS' program offerings, and kids can continue to play sports at their base schools if they want that experience on top of the specialty programming.

Turning this school into a traditional neighborhood school would be squandering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for FCPS.[/quote]

You want the equivalent of a DC Charter School.  Turning it into a school housing [u]a variety of specialty and choice programs and academies ([b]fine arts[/b], AI and data science, aerospace, early childhood, [b]IB[/b], etc.)[/u]  would be squandering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for FCPS.

By that statement, FCPS should have opened South County as an opt-in site with a variety of special programs.  SCSS opened with grades 7-11 for SY2005-06.  SY2006-07 had grade 12.  SY2023-13 the middle school opened.

This has a middle school, Carson.  FCPS should clean up all the AAP MS shuffles and boundaries as part of this endeavor for Liberty, Stone, Rocky Run, Franklin, Carson.  [/quote]

Correct, I'm advocating that we learn from our mistakes rather than repeat them. The shortsighted one-size-fits-all approach, especially for a facility that was physically constructed in a unique way not easily compatible with a traditional comprehensive high school model, unfortunately seems to be full steam ahead.[/quote]

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