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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually don't understand the board docs option D thing. The 1300 HS seats are going to the Ed Center AND they are adding 600 seats to Career Center? Or, they are putting 600 seats at Ed Center and a total of 1300 (or 1500) seats at the Career Center? Comparing slides 3 and 5 is very confusing.[/quote]

They will put 600 seats at the Ed Center.  They will put 700 seats at the Career Center, in addition to the 800 seat expansion already planned for Arlington Tech.

So it's 1300 more seats total but the Career Center will have a 1500 seat HS, part of which will be Arlington Tech?  or all of it?  They haven't said what those seats will be.

It also says they will "renovate" the Ed Center, so it won't be a new building.[/quote]

If that's the case, seems like they actually mostly chose option B, no? Realistically, you'll have one HS at that site and it will be 1500 students. And WL will get bigger by 600 seats but will not have any gimmicky "9th grade academy" or whatever. I don't see another way to read this.[/quote]

They could still decide to put all the 9th graders in the renovated Ed Center.  I was at a CCPTA meeting where there was some discussion of what this hybrid option meant and they did say if the Ed Center was renovated they'd add cafeteria space there.  But still not clear was these seats would be -- all of 9th grade?  IB students only (11-12th grade)?

[b]This also lets the school board take the easy way out and not deal with boundary changes for HS.  [/b]Both seat additions are too small to be 'neighborhood' schools.  [/quote]

This thought crossed my mind as well.[/quote]

This is exactly what is going on. The SB is trying to "choice" their way out of this problem, because they are too chickenshit to deal with redrawing boundaries.[/quote]

Yup. They are such cowards. [/quote]

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