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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Getting back to the new CIP - I'm looking back at when we got into this Career Center mess.  Details are all here:  https://www.apsva.us/instruction/new-high-school/

It was [b]four years ago[/b] -  June 2017 - that the School Board voted on the very last minute "hybrid plan" to put some of the 1300 new HS seats at the Ed Center and some at the CC.  The documents show that they planned 500-600 seats at Ed Center to open most likely before 2022, and 700-800 new HS at the CC to open by Fall 2022.  This was instead of building a 1300 seat HS at Kenmore, the option with the most land and the longest term growth potential.  And these new CC seats were supposed to be in addition to the 600 seats already planned for Arlington Tech.

So we were supposed to have 1300-1400 CC seats built out by Fall 2022.  Instead, we had years of planning commissions trying to figure out how to make this work and how much it would cost.  That ended in disaster last spring when the costs where way too high and the neighborhood rejected a school without full facilities, including a pool.

So now, APS puts out this very roughly sketched out plan for up to 1800 MS and HS seats at this site by 2026, with no details about what program(s) this would be, how they will fit, what facilities they will have, etc.

How are we not right back where we started four years ago?  And the poor Arlington Tech students still have no facility improvements, right?  [i]If we are going back to the beginning, can we please, pretty please reconsider Kenmore now??[/i][/quote]

No, because no neighborhood is going to be okay with being zoned to the lesser school that lacks equivalent facilities, and APS has said they can’t afford to build a full HS. That’s why these are option seats, wherever they are placed. I don’t think it makes sense to move Montessori and Tech and all the CTE programs to a new location. [/quote]

Who said anything about moving Arl Tech, CTE, and Montessori?  At one point, Kenmore was discussed as an option arts focused high school.[/quote]

You could build an option HS there now and then down the road add a pool and what not and turn the whole campus into a 2300 seat HS (once you find a new home for the middle school, i.e. the VHC campus).  [b]There is a long term possibility to have a comprehensive 4th high school with adequate land.[/quote][/b]

I agree with this, which is why it doesn’t make sense to build option programs there now. Look how “easy” it has been to move those around once they’re entrenched. I think adding capacity to Arl Tech and maybe putting another small MS/HS program, like an arts focus or whatever, makes more sense if we can’t build a comprehensive HS right now.[/quote]

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