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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The comprehensive HS needs more land and that's why the enormous Kenmore campus was under consideration.  Carling Springs would be a great location for a MS.  Since ES, MS and HS all have different start times, the traffic wouldn't have to be that bad.  [/quote]

But what happens in the interim? Where do the MS students who attend Kenmore go? Do you mean build a new MS first and then convert Kenmore to a HS? I guess I'm not understanding how it makes sense to convert a MS to a HS and then build a new middle school all along Carlin Springs Rd. Why wouldn't it be more cost effective and less of a disturbance/nuisance to leave Kenmore as-is and build a new HS on land that is acquired. The VHC site is 11.5 acres. Is that not big enough for a HS? How many acres is the Kenmore site?

Also, the neighborhood doesn't care about staggered start times, or at least the agitators in that neighborhood don't (and at least one of them is already getting face-time with elected officials and APS staff trying to stop the discussion before it even starts). These vocal naysayers have kids who are out of HS already, and they just don't give a sh** about the kids coming through now. They just want everything to be preserved in amber as it is now, and too bad for the rest of us. [/quote]

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