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A[quote]nonymous wrote:
I think the options that would best serve Arlington aren't being offered. One option would be to open Kenmore as a 1300 seat choice school to start-- and put a choice program there that people actually want, not this "world languages" stuff-- and then turn it into a 2200 seat comprehensive high school in the future once a new middle school is built at VHC or somewhere else. Second option is to build out the Career Center into a real 2200 seat comprehensive science and technology high school like TJHS in Fairfax-- complete with its own extracurriculars so the kids don't have to return to WL, WF, and YT. It would not have space for a football team and a swim team, but we all know that enough Arlington parents would chomp at the bit to send their kids to a real science high school so I don't think there would be as much complaining about the trade-off if it came with state of the art labs and AP science classes. APS says they love choice schools, but those three options that were presented only included a choice school if you were fine with IB/World Languages at WL.

There aren't enough bright kids in APS for a real math/science magnet on par with TJ. It would just cannibalize HB and W-L.

Ding ding! 
 Fairfax county # of students - 186,000 
 Arlington county # of students - 26,000

[b] stop allowing APS kids to go TJ[/b] and boost up Arl Tech resources. it should attract 70 TJ-isque students easy with APS student pool.   [/quote]

Be careful what you wish for. Access to TJHS is a real draw to APS for many families. If they no longer had access, these families would either go private or move out of the county, and APS could well lose some of its best students. Its school rankings could plummet.
 
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