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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The classrooms are arranged in a dozen or so pods with an open space or lobby area connecting several rooms together in each pod.  Typically one in each pod is a science lab and the others are more standard classrooms. The school also has two detached buildings on the property, a short walk across the main parking lot and road. The road has no through traffic, it's just the school ingress/egress road; a large driveway basically. Those buildings are your standard office park shells. They could convert them to standard classrooms but also seem like easy candidates for building any non-standard-classroom-type spaces (like an aviation CTE type program, for example). The school site also has some unique features that I don't believe most (any?) other FCPS schools have, such as pool and a large dance room with wood floor, mirrors, ballet bars, etc.  The auditorium, like most of the facility, is also very up-to-date with modern theater tech, such that a performing arts program might be viable as well. However, I don't know much about the music spaces, just that the dedicated theater and dance facilities are top notch.[/quote]

Carson is set up this way - in pods with a science room in each pod. It will be an easy transition for Carson kids to the new Western high school.[/quote]

Science classes in HS are, obviously, different. You don't have them in pods because chemistry, biology, physics, and other classes need different set ups then you have for MS science. It should not be hard to convert one of the larger spaces into a science wing and outfit those classes for the needs for the HS classes, take the science class in each pod and make it a regular classroom. [/quote]

The science classrooms have a lot of built-in infrastructure... gas lines, vents, emergency wash, etc. that aren't really portable. I'd imagine at reasonable cost you could deprecate / cover up that equipment to use it as a standard classroom, which would "work" but be a waste of high-end resources. Then you'd have to add tremendous cost to retrofit your science wing to convert those classrooms to lab-grade. Possible you could re-use some of the existing equipment if you wanted to extract it, but now you're adding even more cost. All round this "conversion to create a science wing" is a horrible idea and a waste of money, you'd end up with something inferior to the status quo at significantly higher cost.[/quote]

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