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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People always complain about how dark and depressing Yorktown HS, TJ MS, etc are. The WL addition has so much light, and is so bright and so white, because it was an office building and those always have larger windows than schools. And the building is painted white which reflects the sunlight. [/quote]

And 3000 sq.ft for new weights and exercise machines for the PE Dept.[/quote]

Oh thank god, that will help bolster SAT scores, college matriculation rate, and the reading gap.

You are bolstering all the buzzwords: "state of the art high school" (WTF, does that mean fancy glitchy white boards, monitors everywhere? most colleges still teach with a teacher and desks), weight room, BIG windows?  WTAF?  The trade off is cramming 30% more kids on to campus than it was designed for permanently.

Do you go to WL, or are you singing its praises from the lofty Heights building?[/quote]

Different poster here. W-L HS was far above 3000 students, and the largest high school in the state in the 1950s and 1960s, in a three story school building built in the 1920s. Moreover, the size of the campus was actually smaller then, since there were a couple houses and an older admin office building, and a small convenience store called the Blue and Gray on the site. That was back when Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine were W-L students.

So, today the campus is actually larger for fewer students, has more sports fields directly on the school campus, with additional sports fields in Quincy Park, acquired in the 1960s, and the newer old admin building is now a brand new W-L school addition with all the latest bells and whistles. Not to mention W-L has a huge parking deck over the freeway, and thus many more parking spaces than either Wakefield or Yorktown high schools.

Those are the facts. [/quote]

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