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[ Vol. 3, No. 40 ]
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August 16, 2018 ]
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After more than a decade of planning, the Academies of Loudoun opens to students next week. Students enrolled in three magnet schools will attend classes on the new campus every other day.
The Future is Here for Loudoun’s Academy
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BY DANIELLE NADLER
here’s a new educational concept for Loudoun County that’s been talked about— dreamed about—for more than a decade. Next week it becomes a reality. On Thursday, the county opens the Academies of Loudoun, the largest and
most expensive school building it’s ever funded, built with the goal of giving students all the tools they need to not only excel in tomorrow’s workforce but to help shape it. “Welcome to our brand new building,” Principal Tinnell Priddy said this week, the words echoing through what she referred to as the building’s “grand entrance.”
The massive, 315,000-square-foot building sits on 119-acre wooded acres along Sycolin Road between Leesburg and Ashburn. It will be home to three magnet programs: the Academy of Science, which has operated out of a wing of Dominion High School for 13 years; Monroe Technology Center under the new name Monroe Advanced Technical Academy, which has been housed in
Leesburg for 40 years; and the Academies of Engineering and Technology, which was started two years ago and temporarily housed at Tuscarora High School. Priddy used the term “intentional collisions” to describe the collaboration she and the directors of the three academies want to create among the programs. She LOUDOUN ACADEMY >> 39
Too Few Patriots on the Gridiron: Park View Cancels Varsity Football Season BY DANIELLE NADLER For the first time in its 42-year history, Park View High School will not have a varsity football team this year. School administration announced the news last Thursday after too few players tried out to field a full team. Park View had 18 varsity-level players report for the opening of practice this month, half of
whom had never played football, according to a statement from the school system’s Public Information Office. The Virginia High School League recommends that schools not try to field a varsity football team with fewer than 25 players. That left several students who’d planned to play on the team left to decide whether they would transfer to nearby Dominion High School—and play for
the Titans—or forgo playing football this season. A few players plan to transfer, reluctantly, so that they can play football at Dominion, according to a Park View parent and student. Tony Lampe, a junior at Park View and the varsity quarterback, was one of PARK VIEW >> 37
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Park View High School quarterback Anthony Lampe will transfer to Dominion High School so he can continue to compete.
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