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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plenty of vacant office space in Ballston/Rosslyn corridor. The Career Center can move there.

So can the library. [/quote]

Look I am all for a 4th high school and may be fine with the career center location but if you want low income children to succeed do not take away their libraries. The Columbia Pike library has the second most use in the county after Central. Sure move it elsewhere where there is a need (maybe into empty space in Arlington Mill where they wanted to put it around  8 years ago) but don't take a heavily used resource from S Arlington and put it in the north. Maybe  the career center could move to the R/B corridor if the county labs can actually move there. Teenagers can get around more easily than young kids and it pulls from all over the county.

Also I think some people are in denial about the usefulnesss of trade and technical skills. I heard an interview recently with a MD state politician who is an electrician and did an apprenticeship after high school. He was taking about being 23 and making 80k (more than 5 years ago) and being debt-free while his friends were graduating college searching for entry-level  jobs with no debt. Some of those skilled trades are going to be slower to be replaced by robots too. The career center has great programs. Just food for thought. [/quote]

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