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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think I am going to send an email to both the school and county boards asking them to please, please, please work together to find the money to build a fourth full-size high school.

We know these kids are coming.  They are in the system already.  I don't want my kids doing flex scheduling  or alternate days.[b]  And I don't want them attending a 3,000 kid high school.[/b]  I want them to have a normal high school experience.

Raise our taxes if you need to.  But don't pass a plan that basically throws up its hands for 1,500 kids who won't have high school seats.  The time to buy land is NOW, not 10 years from now.[/quote]

I attended a high school with over 3,000 kids. That's not unusually large. 4,000 would be pushing it though. [/quote]

Can you tell us what state that was? Were they able to fit in 1 building or did you also use trailers ? Was it harder to make sports teams? TIA.[/quote]

I grew up in Oak Park west of Chicago. There were tons of sports and activities, and I don't recall that making sports teams was a problem. The school building was and is huge. In-laws live in Fairfax county where schools are similarly large. I'm more worried about class size, staffing, and having adequate buildings whatever the size of the high schools. [/quote]

The recent battle to fund FCPS's budget demonstrated that Fairfax has a school superintendent and a School Board who'll fight for extra funding. I don't see that coming from Murphy, who seems like he twiddled his thumbs and waits for someone else to come to the rescue.  And with all the people in Arlington who seem to view school-age children as a cost and a nuisance, I'm not holding my breathe much longer.[/quote]

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