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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On another active thread people were complaining that due to overcrowding, there is too much competition for slots in band, sports teams, etc. at W-L and Yorktown. This is another reason why better balancing the SES mix across schools is a good idea--there could be a critical mass at each school of kids who are interested in these sorts of resume-building activities to be able to field competitive teams or robust performing groups, and you wouldn't be forcing every UMC kid in Arlington to compete for the same slots in the same school. Getting the three comprehensive schools to better match the demographics of APS through choice/busing support/boundaries should be a win-win [u]for the kids[/u], if the parents would ever get over themselves. [/quote]

This is a really good point.[/quote]

Once again, I know better what is good for others' kids than do their parents.  This certainly sounds like a winning argument to me. :roll: [/quote]

[b]Then pardon me when I won't support [b]your demands for a fourth comprehensive high school. [/b]Because "I'd rather the community bond $150 million for the next 30 years instead of redraw the boundaries a little to the south" is[/b] [i]definitely[/i] not a winning argument. [/quote]

Oh, didn't you hear? They dropped that hot potato as soon as it was pointed out that their kids might have to attend this new HS to be built south of rt. 50. [/quote]

Wakefield is projected to be just as overcrowded as Yorktown and W-L so building a 4th comprehensive high school has nothing to do with people in North Arlington not willing to attend it.  But if you're fine with the kids at Wakefield  contending with 500-600 more students in the building than it was built for, then go ahead and cut off your nose to spite your face.[/quote]

I'm not fine with it. I'm not the poster who said they wouldn't vote for a bond. I thought the 4th HS should happen and that we need to be getting shovel ready now to catch up to the population instead of tinkering around with a bunch of half-baked programs that are only slightly postponing the inevitable. I am mad at the Glen Carlyn neighborhood for not seeing the bigger picture. But they're being punished for it with the bus lot. But I'm also mad at the parents who actually run the show who are not advocating for a 4th HS, I suspect because of boundaries. It doesn't matter to me now because it's not going to happen in time for my kids, so if the crowding at all the high schools gets as bad as I suspect, we are lucky enough to be able to opt out of public. I have no interest in early college or tech school or anything that forces my kids to decide what type of worker bee they're going to become before they are 14. It's clear to me that this system is not for us. Which is fine. But I think we would've opted to live in a lower COL area of we'd known what this system was becoming. [/quote]

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