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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I favor using the Kenmore site as the ultimate site to a 4th comprehensive, but I hear the point of the local parents who say putting a high school and elementary school so close in proximity is a problem because high school kids are terrible drivers and shouldn't be driving so near small children. How do we solve that?[/quote]

You don't. Just like you can't solve the problem of the local parents who like having that urgent care nearby just in case DS hurts himself, which I swear was one of the responses in that ridiculous survey commissioned by the Carlin Springs area civic association. There is always going to be something.[/quote]

PP here, and to be honest I am also starting to feel not great about asking South Arlington to take another one for the team so that my North Arlington kid won't be crammed into a 4,000 kid high school.  I mean, I hate ** H A T E ** the idea of a 4,000 kid high school, and I genuinely think that having a 4th comprehensive at Kenmore could benefit ALL high school kids, north and south, because it would force redistricting and we could make each school take a mix of north and south kids that could better benefit the socioeconomic makeup of each high school.

But there ARE a lot of legitimate problems with Kenmore.  Several people in the know are suggesting there would be space for playing fields, but not a football field, and maybe not a pool.  If someone was trying to force a fourth comprehensive into MY neighborhood while telling me that it was going to have to be LESS THAN the others, plus have a lot of traffic and driving problems, I wouldn't like it.  I'd be offended.  And after decades of south arlington getting the short stick, this isn't sitting as well with me as it was before.  I dunno.  I have a hard time imagining Yorktown parents at the meeting tonight accepting a neighborhood high school that didn't have a pool or a stadium when they complain about their current level of traffic.

I know there's no perfect solution.  It does seem like the North has to talk to the South more, though.[/quote]

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