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Middle Class families south of 50 are not looking to be forced to send there kids to a school where they have no opportunities for band, theatre and sports because all of those things are forced to share 1 swing space. This on top of their students losing 3 instruction hours every swimming day while they are bused all over the county for the required swim classes to an offsite pool. Or being forced to have school days that last twice as long as everywhere else in the county to accommodate the fact that there are no facilities on site. They will show up in their matching t-shirts and fight this and its going to get ugly.

No one has said they will have to do any of those things. Use your imagination for something productive, like making the CC a functional site. 
Also, totally stupid to suggest music / theatre can’t happen on campus.[/quote]

Someone on either the County Board or the School Board has said literally all of those things.  You just aren't paying attention.

At the CIP the School Board discussed having 2300+ Students at a Career Center school with one room that would be both an auditorium and a gymnasium. Which means that you can't have a band, a chorus, a theatre and a basketball team all using the space at the same time. Where and when would they practice that doesn't overlap with each other? That means that 2300 students would need to be bused to the other high schools to participate in those programs, which means that either they get shortened instruction time so they can get to the other schools, or that all of the other schools have to wait a hour for those students to get bused over before they can start their practices.  Which lengthens the school day for everyone. And thats not even getting into what happens when you have 3500-4000+ students vying for limited slots on a team, or in a play.

And this seems just fine to county leadership. At the joint County/School Board working session about the Career Center Erik Gutshall remarked, “I think that equal does not necessarily, when we talk about equal education, equal quality, does not necessarily mean the same.” He then went on to describe how high school students at the Career Center site could possibly fulfill their PE/aquatics education requirement by being bused to other Arlington High Schools as part of an “exchange student” program.  Libby Garvey, suggested expanding the high school day from 6 am to 11 pm to accommodate all this busing.

Even assuming Libby was exaggerating to make a point, what parent is going to sign there kid up for a choice school with 3 hour longer days to accommodate travel back and forth to one of the real high schools as an "exchange student."  And if they can't make it choice then they will just force the neighborhood to go there.[/quote]

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