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Anonymous wrote:If you missed it, APS voted yesterday to approve the concept design of a new building for Arlington Tech and the Career Center at a cost of $156-172 million.

It looks like it might be to expand the Career Center program, which is great for those secondary students on this track, but doesn't provide relief for overcrowding in the high schools. Maybe (I hope) I'm wrong? Seems like if you are building then why not build for both capacities (HS and career/ tech programs)?

https://www.arlnow.com/2022/02/02/aps-relaunches-career-center-expansion-project-after-delaying-it-due-to-cost-overruns/

Why do you think extra seats at Career center/tech wont relive crowding at other schools?

This. Arlington Tech is a college-prep program. Expanding the Career Center is at least in part to grow that program.

College like NOVA or JMU — it’s much more prepping to be a nurse or technician than professor at Stanford

You have no idea what the Arlington Tech program is.
It is not the same as the Career Center with specific career training/certifications.
Arlington Tech program is a FOUR-YEAR college prep program with a bunch of dual-enrollment classes and a required senior year internship in the real world.

Exactly. Duel enrollment. Not AP. Anyone who gets into Harvard from there is riding a different hook than academics

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Anonymous wrote:About the community centers- do we really need so many? Like literally, are they all used to capacity daily?

Yeah it definitely seems like there are a lot of rec centers. Barcroft seems like it would make a good high school location. But only a small share of people in Arlington have schools and property values aren't that tied to schools, so I don't think the politics work.

The problem with using rec centers is that the sites are held by the county, not APS, and the county historically has strictly refused to transfer its property to APS without getting a different property in exchange (but since APS is using all of the sites it currently holds, there is nothing it could give in a trade without creating different capacity problems). Many of the current community centers used to be schools, but APS transferred the properties to the county when enrollment was too low to sustain them because the cost of maintaining the buildings was too much for APS to bear. Now that APS needs the land again, the county will not transfer them back.

Also, building code requirements are different for schools than for community centers, and most (if not all) of the current community centers would not meet the building code requirements for schools (particularly elementary schools), so the cost to convert them into schools would be massive.

If APS ever has an FAQ (and I wish it would because I am so very tired of people's Groundbreaking Ideas That Only They Are Smart Enough to Have Thought Of, such as a second HB or renting office space for a school), I hope it hires you to write it

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Anonymous wrote:If you missed it, APS voted yesterday to approve the concept design of a new building for Arlington Tech and the Career Center at a cost of $156-172 million.

It looks like it might be to expand the Career Center program, which is great for those secondary students on this track, but doesn't provide relief for overcrowding in the high schools. Maybe (I hope) I'm wrong? Seems like if you are building then why not build for both capacities (HS and career/ tech programs)?

https://www.arlnow.com/2022/02/02/aps-relaunches-career-center-expansion-project-after-delaying-it-due-to-cost-overruns/

Why do you think extra seats at Career center/tech wont relive crowding at other schools?

This. Arlington Tech is a college-prep program. Expanding the Career Center is at least in part to grow that program.

College like NOVA or JMU — it’s much more prepping to be a nurse or technician than professor at Stanford

You have no idea what the Arlington Tech program is.
It is not the same as the Career Center with specific career training/certifications.
Arlington Tech program is a FOUR-YEAR college prep program with a bunch of dual-enrollment classes and a required senior year internship in the real world.