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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I just don't understand why it would have to be a HS with a defined boundary if it's at Kenmore or the Career Center. Couldn't it be an option school, and then transition to a zoned school if they are able to get money and (adjacent) land to build out a full comprehensive school with all the amenities in the future? Do they think none of the programs would draw 1300 to fill the school by 2022 if they locate it there? I agree that a school can't have a defined boundary if it's going to be "less than." They can't do that. [/quote]

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