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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't blame the HB PAC for the over-the-top plan design at the Wilson School. I blame them for fighting so hard against adding more students and growing the size of the school. When you have elementary schools like Oakridge projected to top off at 866 students this fall, it really rubs people the wrong way to hear HB parents whine that the program must "remain small" to preserve the quality of their program. HB's combined middle and high school enrollment this fall is projected to be 702 students-- that makes HB smaller than five of our county elementary schools (Claremont, Key, Oakridge, Taylor, and McKinley). HB needs to be part of the overcrowding solution instead of just whining that they "deserve" to remain small since they "gave up" the Stratford building. I don't think the HB parents fully understand how badly they came off to the rest of the Arlington community during those discussions-- but that is exactly why the HB backlash has grown so much over the past two years. [/quote]

I don't have direct experience with H-B but I can see why it's not scalable. You want to kill a successful program? I don't. Create another H-B. Or two. In the career center and ed center.

APS should take back all of the old schools (community centers) and stop trying to cram so many kids into so few schools. 
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Where does that money come from though?  Going back to the debt limit comment... it is not monopoly money. We have a hard stop on how much money we can borrow for school construction, and we are very, very close to that limit. Those community centers would all need at least some renovation to work as high school programs-- the bond capacity simply isn't there for multiple smaller projects, unless you can get the County to give up on other bond funding priorities like metro, parks and rec, affordable housing, etc.

Also, the Ed Center and Career Center programs need to hold 700-800 students each to create enough capacity for 2022-- HB's high school program is only 453 students. So if HB really isn't "scalable" (to use your word), then the program couldn't be replicated in those two locations because it would not create enough seats. Now, if you want to talk about growing HB at the Wilson Center to 700 high school students and then replicate **that** program at the Ed Center and the Career Center, then you might find more community support for your idea.

And I have yet to hear anyone explain in a meaningful way why HB's high school program wouldn't work if it grew to 700 students... which is still less than half the size of our comprehensive high schools today. Why exactly is 450 the magic number for HB to work?[/quote]

Co-locate two H-Bs at one facility. Not sure about the 450 limit. 
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