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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This overcrowding situation is [b]perilously close to sending the schools off the rails[/b].  I am a huge fan of north Arlington, but I think it is a victim of its own, amazing success, which has made it one of the most sought after locations in the universe.[/quote]

Not too many will care how good the elementary and middle schools are if by the time your child gets to high school s/he is lost in a sea of 2,600 - 3,000 students at their neighborhood high school or goes to school in double shifts and cannot participate in school sponsored extracurricular activities because there is no space or time for them.  Yes, all years of school matter but how and what a student does in high school often plays a significant role in the opportunities that are available to them as they shape their lives at least as a young adult.[/quote]

They had an option to turn Kenmore into a HS.  The building is newer, so it's easy to convert and they have enough land.  Then, they would build a MS elsewhere.  I don't understand why Patrick Murphy and John Chadwick don't seem to give a d*mn about the kids who are in ES and MS right now!  These are the kids that they KNOW are coming.  Idiots![/quote]

And where do we put the kids who attend Kenmore in the meantime? It makes no sense to turn one school that is currently utilized by 1,000 or so kids (and many more in the near future) into a different school. If you need to build a HS, build it elsewhere, new, to the proper size/specs from the beginning. You can't take a MS offline just before the population explosion is about to hit it.

We might have the land, if the county acquires VHC on Carlin Springs and then grows a pair and tells that neighborhood that they can't whine about not wanting another school because of traffic (which can be mitigated with proper planning). There's no where else to put it. And unless the county starts accepting offers of land in exchange for up-zoning rights from private developers, we won't have an opportunity like this again.

Also, Arlington Tech is not ever going to attract kids who are college-bound. There is no way that this school doesn't become the "track" that certain kids are "encouraged" to follow. It may grow to hundreds of students, but they aren't going to be kids from SFH's.
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