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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Web archive of KAA facilities description

https://web.archive.org/web/20250502091109/https://www.kaa-herndon.com/about-us/facilities

Hightlights (List of 11 items.)

Buildings and grounds on 40-acres

Fourteen learning communities designed to maximize individual and group work

Three gymnasiums suitable for basketball, volleyball, badminton etc.

Large multi-purpose halls

Indoor 8 lane heated swimming pool & weight lifting/fitness facilities

State-of-the-art theater and performing arts facilities

Library and study rooms

Dual dining room and cafeteria

Ceramics and robotics laboratories

Fine arts facilities

Soccer fields and Athletics oval

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That sounds like plenty of space for a high school.

They can use trailers for overflow while construction is going on.[/quote]

No, it sounds like tons of amenities for a high school.

It doesn’t address the actual capacity or how much classroom space there is.

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What amenities? The only thing it has that other schools don't have is a pool. It's not like they're going to keep the dining room and three gyms. They will repurpose those into classrooms.[/quote]

Wrong.  There are a lot of special-purpose spaces and equipment (which conveyed) that typical high schools don’t have.  And “repurpose” is an interesting word for the modifications that will be required for more classroom space. You can’t just snap your fingers and turn a gym into classrooms.

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You clearly don't know anything about this stuff - converting a gym into classrooms would be one of the easiest projects for them to do - put down flooring, put up thin walls.[/quote]

It’s starting to sound less like a high school and more like a refugee camp, but do go on.  [/quote]

I will, thanks! Do you know anything about construction and renovation? Because it's obvious you don't. A gym is one large room. You can easily build partitions to turn it into several smaller rooms. Have you ever been in an office building? They build it out as one large open space, and add walls to create offices. Then when one company leaves and another ones leases the space, they rebuild the interior to meet their own needs. Sometimes that means tearing down offices and building cubicles or removing walls to create a large conference room. Other times it means, building offices where there were once cubicles or turning one large conference room into several offices. I've seen this happen many times, and nobody has ever compared these office spaces to refugee camps![/quote]

Everything you are talking about takes time and costs money.  So we've very quickly gone from hearing about how KAA was a "turnkey" bargain purchase to knowing that a lot more money is going to be required to get KAA ready to open as a public high school (and it's also clear they still haven't figured out what kind of school it's going to be).  And the classrooms you want to create in a gym with high ceilings and thin walls may still turn out to be sub-optimal learning spaces - they might actually do better if they were converting an office building like they did at Bailey's Upper.

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