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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would like to see the county take some of these mega HSs and turn them into secondary schools like Lake Braddock model.

This would naturally solve some of the boundary issues, sorry no room, you can't be bussed 45 miles across town. You'd need less buses, and the ones you have would be driving shorter distances, so can easily get from Secondary school to ES pickups/drop offs.

Everyone gets a reasonable start time. I have a middle schooler, they'd have to go to bed at 8pm to get all of the sleep they need.

3000+ capacity HSs are not good for anyone.

Why not do 2 separate schools within a school, smaller classes, but numbers would still be high enough to offer reasonable diversity of classes, accessible sport teams. Fear of big kids/mixing with younger kids, modify bells schedules, and build modify shared spaces for separate cafeterias, gyms, libraries etc.[/quote]

Lake braddock was built as a secondary school.

The high schools were not

We love the larger 2500-3000 high school.

You get so much of a higher level/talented cohort for everything from sports to musicals,  Orchestra and academics.  The bigger talent pool means more competition, which produces a much higher quality outcome.[/quote]

This is a dumb reason for bigger schools. Participation rates are more important than achieving the highest possible “quality outcome”. 
What good does it do to have a high performing sports team or musical or whatever when more kids get left out?[/quote]

In the case of theater specifically, most actors get cut.  Dealing with rejection is 100% the best life lesson any kid interested in performing can learn.

The best thing is, if your freshman gets cut, frim the mainstage shows, they can do the smaller black box events designed for freshmen and less experienced kids.  Or sign up for choir.  Or sign up for the school talent show.  Or stage crew.

A large school will have many, many opportunities beyond the musical where kids interested in theater can get involved.

And, the good thing about theater is that many of those freshmen who get cut, can keep auditioning, or get private voice lessons and return the next year.  Many eventually get cast, if they work hard and improve.

You also might not realize this if your kid got cut as a freshman, but many of the big high schools will find a way to cast all of the seniors involved in the theater program over the years but never successfully auditioned for a mainstage show, in the ensemble in the musical their senior year.[/quote]

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