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[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]

But is the 800 seat expansion already including the 300 or so expansion that they are planning for the immediate future?  The neighborhood would like to know, how many kids exactly they are planning to cram into the career center location, when all is said and done, because the numbers do look now as if it is a FULL HIGH SCHOOL anyways, just without the full high school designation and/or infrastructure!  And that would suck.   Also, if they are putting that many kids in the career center site, the CC cannot ALSO house all the other programs currently there, and shouldn't have the Montessori elementary with busses from the entire county on the same site as well.  Again, total lack of sensible planning on display.[/quote]

Yes, there is the already-planned expansion to add seats to accommodate an 800-seat Arlington Tech.  This is an additional 700 on top of that.  They have not said that the added 700 would also be Arlington Tech.  It could be some other choice program (won't be a neighborhood school because it's too small).  Plus you have the HILT and PEP programs there.  Plus 11th-12th graders from all over Arlington coming and going during the day for Career Center classes.  I guess if they want to drive up participation in AT they could stop letting kids from other schools come over to take classes.  Add in a potentially PreK-8 Montessori and that's a LOT of use of that site.
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