My New Favorite Anger at APS: XXL WL

[Anonymous]

My public high school had well over 2,000 students and it was only grades 11-12. They don’t have massive classes. They just add more sections of classes and can offer much more variety. You join the art, interest or sport that suits you and it’s easy to find your people.

Less whining and more positivity and encouragement from you will serve your kid well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Then move or go private.

Oh, buy another house or hemorrhage money in private.

Please note, I alluded to boxed wine -- we don't have the money to go private, and moving means a long drive to our jobs which has its own compounding costs.

All because school board is holding out hope it can make WL miserable enough to have people move away or go private.

A long drive from south of Route 50?

What are you talking about? Wakefield will be overcrowded too, and ACPS High is even bigger and unmanageable

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Check out page 5

HB has “1” class over 27 students.

Other HS each have close to 100

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-22-Class-Size-Report.pdf

But at least we have equity?

Is that true?! If so, that’s total bulls—t. APS teacher with 30 in every class but one.

Are you kidding? Of course it’s true. HBW spins a yarn they can’t be over crowded because of their model.

What is the largest class sizes at WL? All they report is greater than 27.

Their model is they don't have as many admin positions, they have teachers. For example, they don't have any guidance counselors, so with seven grades there, that is seven more teachers. And the principal and 2 assistant principals also all teach at least one period a day. So they have more teachers per student than the other schools because that is how they allocate their positions. Other schools can't do that because they need guidance staff and more admins....in part because of their size. It would be harder to do the model with 3,000 kids, at some point you need more admin staff and supervisors just to keep track of things.

It’s also easier to have less busy guidance and admin staff b/c you have proactive parents whose selected into your program and thus have less discipline problems and less kids with challenges (such as ESL)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My public high school had well over 2,000 students and it was only grades 11-12. They don’t have massive classes. They just add more sections of classes and can offer much more variety. You join the art, interest or sport that suits you and it’s easy to find your people.

Less whining and more positivity and encouragement from you will serve your kid well.

2000 students in a high school of only upperclassman sounds way more manageable. Sign me up.