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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds awful to me.  We moved to Arlington for the more personal touch, not so our kids could attend high school factories with 2600-3000 students.  The plans for Arlington Tech also make no sense. Is it supposed to be like TJ or is it just a plan to segregate kids on the non-college track?  [/quote]

I wouldn't worry about Arlington tech being for non-college kids only.  The career center has fantastic programs for all kinds of kids, including some college bound ones. It is a great resource.
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The Career Center is a place where college-bound kids take one or two classes, returning to their high schools for other classes, including AP classes. Arlington Tech won't have AP classes, and even in when I was in high school, 30ish years ago, that would have doomed it.[/quote]

+1.  It's a joke of a solution right now.  [b]The incompetence of APS leadership is staggering.[/b][/quote]

I hope you're voting then. School board elections are coming up.[/quote]

Most of the Arlington voters in non-presidential elections are elderly hoarders.

Primary elections, that is, and if you don't vote in the primary you don't get a vote because the democratic-endorsed person has never not won a school board race.

Voters need to read what the candidates say and what their priorities are. We need leaders who can handle a lot of complex information and make difficult decisions--otherwise staff just do whatever they want. I don't know that the best role of the School Board is to help facilitate additional community input--at some point, somebody needs to make some tough decisions. And the Superintendent can't negotiate with the County Board about land or bond capacity. The tradeoffs the community needs to make to SOLVE the capacity issues are political issues, not technical issues. This whole thread is about how pissed off people are with the Superintendent's plan to work within the resources he's got, which is basically rearranged deck chairs on the Titanic. If people want more resources for the schools, that's a political issue, and we need better politicians. [/quote][/quote]

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