Waiver for HB Woodlawn

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Anonymous wrote:And Paul Weiss teaches at HB. He has no chance, but if he did, that’s a very HB/Option heavy sb.

No wonder the Montessori vote went the way that it did!

Don’t Miranda Turner’s kids go to MPSA? She voted against her own interest

I am so confused by Miranda Turner’s vote when she kids at MPSA. Anyone understand this?

Her kids will have moved on to HB-W along like Mary's and Bethany's kids before her by the time MPSA is finished.

I see. So selfish.

People who are trying to sidedoor into an option lottery school are also selfish since there's a waitlist of kids trying to get in. H-B has a number of kids who don't seem to be coming from the waitlist showing up.

How do you know this? Please be specific. You know the names of kids on the waitlist and the names of kids now going to H-B? You know the position of kids on the waitlist and that kids are now at H-B and they could not possibly be off the waitlist at this point? You used the plural--this is multiple kids? From which base schools? How do you know this? Social media? Family friends? You work at APS central?

All of the SB members who have kids in APS have kids in HB-W. I won't be too surprised if Miranda's kids magically get in too when its time.

has it occurred to you that more involved people are more likely to apply?

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Anonymous wrote:The blissfully unintentional irony of advocating for the destruction of all option programs because lotteries are so, so inequitable while at the same time arguing that families in Rosslyn (where the median income is $69K/year) should accept a school with no fields, pool, or sports as its neighborhood school. *chef's kiss*

Most people are saying they should expand representation in the program, making it HS only and larger, and making it an opt-out lottery — every 8th grader is entered, winners get a slot, and a chance to tour the school and learn about the program rather than some pamphlet.

I really like this plan. It would give a lot more kids a chance to have the HB experience--instead of 1 kid getting a spot for 7 years (for 6-12 grades), ~2 kids could each get to attend HS for 4 years each.

APS doesn’t want to make the school representative of APS demographics, if it did it would not be as high performing, and with zero high performing schools many wealthy families will just leave. Its secret sauce is that it has engaged parents and tends to be richer families.

Not sure what you mean by high performing. The school has mostly general ed students at best with high grade inflation to suggest otherwise, although my kid suggests that it skews more toward special ed learning since most classes are blended, including many AP classes. It also caps how much smart students can learn together with their cohort since many advanced ap classes are not offered on campus. There are also not enough seats in other AP classes to take in a traditional sequence since the few available seats are offered to seniors first. Thus a lower tier science class such as AP Bio would be effectively closed to underclassmen and at least some juniors.

This is a weird take. Yes, there are fewer AP classes offered, and yes, the AP classes are co-taught with regular classes (not ideal at all). But my kid hasn't had trouble signing up for an AP class that they wanted. Has yours?

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Anonymous wrote:And Paul Weiss teaches at HB. He has no chance, but if he did, that’s a very HB/Option heavy sb.

No wonder the Montessori vote went the way that it did!

Don’t Miranda Turner’s kids go to MPSA? She voted against her own interest

I am so confused by Miranda Turner’s vote when she kids at MPSA. Anyone understand this?

Her kids will have moved on to HB-W along like Mary's and Bethany's kids before her by the time MPSA is finished.

I see. So selfish.

People who are trying to sidedoor into an option lottery school are also selfish since there's a waitlist of kids trying to get in. H-B has a number of kids who don't seem to be coming from the waitlist showing up.

How do you know this? Please be specific. You know the names of kids on the waitlist and the names of kids now going to H-B? You know the position of kids on the waitlist and that kids are now at H-B and they could not possibly be off the waitlist at this point? You used the plural--this is multiple kids? From which base schools? How do you know this? Social media? Family friends? You work at APS central?

Thank you. I bet you'll get no answer. People like their conspiracy theories about HB.

Agree -- "undeserving kids are getting into H-B" is the Arlington version of "immigrants are eating cats and dogs" -- red meat to a very specific constituency

Unmm, are you saying that APS Admin has zero say in sending kids who are struggling at their home school to HB? I know this for a fact to be wrong. Our neighbors child was waitlisted at HB. Reallly had a tough freshman year. Very involved parents. Child was placed at HB sophomore year. Child has several learning differences as well as medical needs. Not debilitating but still. APS moved this kid. It’s been really wonderful for this kid and kids family. May make a huge difference in his whole life for all I know.

I still think it’s deeply wrong and unfair. Either it’s a straight lottery and an unbiased waitlist or it isn’t. I don’t administrators should get to make this call. Sorry. I know people will disagree.

Are you saying that the kid got special treatment and didn't just get in off the waitlist? How does this work? Who made the decision? "APS Admin" is very vague.

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Anonymous wrote:And Paul Weiss teaches at HB. He has no chance, but if he did, that’s a very HB/Option heavy sb.

No wonder the Montessori vote went the way that it did!

Don’t Miranda Turner’s kids go to MPSA? She voted against her own interest

I am so confused by Miranda Turner’s vote when she kids at MPSA. Anyone understand this?

Her kids will have moved on to HB-W along like Mary's and Bethany's kids before her by the time MPSA is finished.

I see. So selfish.

People who are trying to sidedoor into an option lottery school are also selfish since there's a waitlist of kids trying to get in. H-B has a number of kids who don't seem to be coming from the waitlist showing up.

How do you know this? Please be specific. You know the names of kids on the waitlist and the names of kids now going to H-B? You know the position of kids on the waitlist and that kids are now at H-B and they could not possibly be off the waitlist at this point? You used the plural--this is multiple kids? From which base schools? How do you know this? Social media? Family friends? You work at APS central?

Thank you. I bet you'll get no answer. People like their conspiracy theories about HB.

Agree -- "undeserving kids are getting into H-B" is the Arlington version of "immigrants are eating cats and dogs" -- red meat to a very specific constituency

So dumb. Comments like this is why we need separate classrooms for different levels of cognitive ability. People that are actually intelligent and engaged in their school communities know the shenanigans that happen in APS admin circles. Do you really not know any examples of people getting into, from the beginning or transferring into ATS and/or HB separate from the lottery? Since Tech is in demand, it probably includes them now, too. It's a known thing and the main problem I see is that they almost always seem to be not the normal kids: they're either bullies or the bullied, sped, or mental disorder kids. We were one of these categories that admin and teachers should have prevented but (protected the several mental 504 kids and) didn't until it got escalated above their pay grade. And somehow a spot opened up at one of the lottery schools over that summer without our even asking. How sererendipitous, right?

I don't, and I have had two kids at H-B over the span of the last 10 or so years. One was on the wait list when you just entered and stayed on the same wait list and got in part way through middle school (we pulled her out of her base school in the middle of the year after she had been there for a couple of years) and the other got in at 9th when they add more seats, did not get in at 6th. But then again I'm not a gossip. But thanks for calling me stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:And Paul Weiss teaches at HB. He has no chance, but if he did, that’s a very HB/Option heavy sb.

No wonder the Montessori vote went the way that it did!

Don’t Miranda Turner’s kids go to MPSA? She voted against her own interest

I am so confused by Miranda Turner’s vote when she kids at MPSA. Anyone understand this?

Her kids will have moved on to HB-W along like Mary's and Bethany's kids before her by the time MPSA is finished.

I see. So selfish.

People who are trying to sidedoor into an option lottery school are also selfish since there's a waitlist of kids trying to get in. H-B has a number of kids who don't seem to be coming from the waitlist showing up.

How do you know this? Please be specific. You know the names of kids on the waitlist and the names of kids now going to H-B? You know the position of kids on the waitlist and that kids are now at H-B and they could not possibly be off the waitlist at this point? You used the plural--this is multiple kids? From which base schools? How do you know this? Social media? Family friends? You work at APS central?

Thank you. I bet you'll get no answer. People like their conspiracy theories about HB.

Agree -- "undeserving kids are getting into H-B" is the Arlington version of "immigrants are eating cats and dogs" -- red meat to a very specific constituency

So dumb. Comments like this is why we need separate classrooms for different levels of cognitive ability. People that are actually intelligent and engaged in their school communities know the shenanigans that happen in APS admin circles. Do you really not know any examples of people getting into, from the beginning or transferring into ATS and/or HB separate from the lottery? Since Tech is in demand, it probably includes them now, too. It's a known thing and the main problem I see is that they almost always seem to be not the normal kids: they're either bullies or the bullied, sped, or mental disorder kids. We were one of these categories that admin and teachers should have prevented but (protected the several mental 504 kids and) didn't until it got escalated above their pay grade. And somehow a spot opened up at one of the lottery schools over that summer without our even asking. How sererendipitous, right?

I don't, and I have had two kids at H-B over the span of the last 10 or so years. One was on the wait list when you just entered and stayed on the same wait list and got in part way through middle school (we pulled her out of her base school in the middle of the year after she had been there for a couple of years) and the other got in at 9th when they add more seats, did not get in at 6th. But then again I'm not a gossip. But thanks for calling me stupid.

+1. Also an HB family. I am intelligent enough to not believe rumors and conspiracy theories. I have also never heard of this. My kid (who really benefits from being at HB) got in through the lottery and it was serendipitous, as you say, but I have ZERO proof that anyone put their finger on the lever to give them any advantage.

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Anonymous wrote:And Paul Weiss teaches at HB. He has no chance, but if he did, that’s a very HB/Option heavy sb.

No wonder the Montessori vote went the way that it did!

Don’t Miranda Turner’s kids go to MPSA? She voted against her own interest

I am so confused by Miranda Turner’s vote when she kids at MPSA. Anyone understand this?

Her kids will have moved on to HB-W along like Mary's and Bethany's kids before her by the time MPSA is finished.

I see. So selfish.

People who are trying to sidedoor into an option lottery school are also selfish since there's a waitlist of kids trying to get in. H-B has a number of kids who don't seem to be coming from the waitlist showing up.

How do you know this? Please be specific. You know the names of kids on the waitlist and the names of kids now going to H-B? You know the position of kids on the waitlist and that kids are now at H-B and they could not possibly be off the waitlist at this point? You used the plural--this is multiple kids? From which base schools? How do you know this? Social media? Family friends? You work at APS central?

Thank you. I bet you'll get no answer. People like their conspiracy theories about HB.

Agree -- "undeserving kids are getting into H-B" is the Arlington version of "immigrants are eating cats and dogs" -- red meat to a very specific constituency

So dumb. Comments like this is why we need separate classrooms for different levels of cognitive ability. People that are actually intelligent and engaged in their school communities know the shenanigans that happen in APS admin circles. Do you really not know any examples of people getting into, from the beginning or transferring into ATS and/or HB separate from the lottery? Since Tech is in demand, it probably includes them now, too. It's a known thing and the main problem I see is that they almost always seem to be not the normal kids: they're either bullies or the bullied, sped, or mental disorder kids. We were one of these categories that admin and teachers should have prevented but (protected the several mental 504 kids and) didn't until it got escalated above their pay grade. And somehow a spot opened up at one of the lottery schools over that summer without our even asking. How sererendipitous, right?

What do you mean you escalated it? To who? We don't believe you unless you give more details. Calling us dumb doesn't help.

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Anonymous wrote:And Paul Weiss teaches at HB. He has no chance, but if he did, that’s a very HB/Option heavy sb.

No wonder the Montessori vote went the way that it did!

Don’t Miranda Turner’s kids go to MPSA? She voted against her own interest

I am so confused by Miranda Turner’s vote when she kids at MPSA. Anyone understand this?

Her kids will have moved on to HB-W along like Mary's and Bethany's kids before her by the time MPSA is finished.

I see. So selfish.

People who are trying to sidedoor into an option lottery school are also selfish since there's a waitlist of kids trying to get in. H-B has a number of kids who don't seem to be coming from the waitlist showing up.

How do you know this? Please be specific. You know the names of kids on the waitlist and the names of kids now going to H-B? You know the position of kids on the waitlist and that kids are now at H-B and they could not possibly be off the waitlist at this point? You used the plural--this is multiple kids? From which base schools? How do you know this? Social media? Family friends? You work at APS central?

Thank you. I bet you'll get no answer. People like their conspiracy theories about HB.

Agree -- "undeserving kids are getting into H-B" is the Arlington version of "immigrants are eating cats and dogs" -- red meat to a very specific constituency

So dumb. Comments like this is why we need separate classrooms for different levels of cognitive ability. People that are actually intelligent and engaged in their school communities know the shenanigans that happen in APS admin circles. Do you really not know any examples of people getting into, from the beginning or transferring into ATS and/or HB separate from the lottery? Since Tech is in demand, it probably includes them now, too. It's a known thing and the main problem I see is that they almost always seem to be not the normal kids: they're either bullies or the bullied, sped, or mental disorder kids. We were one of these categories that admin and teachers should have prevented but (protected the several mental 504 kids and) didn't until it got escalated above their pay grade. And somehow a spot opened up at one of the lottery schools over that summer without our even asking. How sererendipitous, right?

I call BS. You're not an HB family. You're an HB hater peddling a conspiracy theory.

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Anonymous wrote:And Paul Weiss teaches at HB. He has no chance, but if he did, that’s a very HB/Option heavy sb.

No wonder the Montessori vote went the way that it did!

Don’t Miranda Turner’s kids go to MPSA? She voted against her own interest

I am so confused by Miranda Turner’s vote when she kids at MPSA. Anyone understand this?

Her kids will have moved on to HB-W along like Mary's and Bethany's kids before her by the time MPSA is finished.

I see. So selfish.

People who are trying to sidedoor into an option lottery school are also selfish since there's a waitlist of kids trying to get in. H-B has a number of kids who don't seem to be coming from the waitlist showing up.

How do you know this? Please be specific. You know the names of kids on the waitlist and the names of kids now going to H-B? You know the position of kids on the waitlist and that kids are now at H-B and they could not possibly be off the waitlist at this point? You used the plural--this is multiple kids? From which base schools? How do you know this? Social media? Family friends? You work at APS central?

Thank you. I bet you'll get no answer. People like their conspiracy theories about HB.

Agree -- "undeserving kids are getting into H-B" is the Arlington version of "immigrants are eating cats and dogs" -- red meat to a very specific constituency

So dumb. Comments like this is why we need separate classrooms for different levels of cognitive ability. People that are actually intelligent and engaged in their school communities know the shenanigans that happen in APS admin circles. Do you really not know any examples of people getting into, from the beginning or transferring into ATS and/or HB separate from the lottery? Since Tech is in demand, it probably includes them now, too. It's a known thing and the main problem I see is that they almost always seem to be not the normal kids: they're either bullies or the bullied, sped, or mental disorder kids. We were one of these categories that admin and teachers should have prevented but (protected the several mental 504 kids and) didn't until it got escalated above their pay grade. And somehow a spot opened up at one of the lottery schools over that summer without our even asking. How sererendipitous, right?

I call BS. You're not an HB family. You're an HB hater peddling a conspiracy theory.

Huh? Are you all the same people or coincidentally all showing up at the same time? What's an HB hater? Who's not the HB family? Hmm let's see... The school has had two lockdown drills (8/29), the last one being last Thursday. The open house was last Wed, picnic on Friday. There's no PAC meeting this month, first one mid-October. The t-shirt they were selling had an orca on it and was not that great looking. Did I miss anything?

Oh and, there are people that get in that are not at the top of the waitlist. And no they don't all deserve to cut the line.

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I don't see how the HB conspiracy stuff can possibly true to any numerically significant amount. Spots are allocated per elementary school and that fills the class. It's possible they squeeze in a couple of kids via other means, but it can't be a widespread thing or the numbers wouldn't add up.

I know the three kids from our elementary school and they don't have any connections. Straight up lotto.

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For those people who are so vocal about how the whole program shouldn’t exist because it’s so hard to get in, we know many people in our neighborhood (N Arlington) who have turned down their spots. And many others with a wait list number deep into the wait list who have gotten a seat eventually. So the wait list does move.

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Anonymous wrote:And Paul Weiss teaches at HB. He has no chance, but if he did, that’s a very HB/Option heavy sb.

No wonder the Montessori vote went the way that it did!

Don’t Miranda Turner’s kids go to MPSA? She voted against her own interest

I am so confused by Miranda Turner’s vote when she kids at MPSA. Anyone understand this?

Her kids will have moved on to HB-W along like Mary's and Bethany's kids before her by the time MPSA is finished.

I see. So selfish.

People who are trying to sidedoor into an option lottery school are also selfish since there's a waitlist of kids trying to get in. H-B has a number of kids who don't seem to be coming from the waitlist showing up.

How do you know this? Please be specific. You know the names of kids on the waitlist and the names of kids now going to H-B? You know the position of kids on the waitlist and that kids are now at H-B and they could not possibly be off the waitlist at this point? You used the plural--this is multiple kids? From which base schools? How do you know this? Social media? Family friends? You work at APS central?

Thank you. I bet you'll get no answer. People like their conspiracy theories about HB.

Agree -- "undeserving kids are getting into H-B" is the Arlington version of "immigrants are eating cats and dogs" -- red meat to a very specific constituency

So dumb. Comments like this is why we need separate classrooms for different levels of cognitive ability. People that are actually intelligent and engaged in their school communities know the shenanigans that happen in APS admin circles. Do you really not know any examples of people getting into, from the beginning or transferring into ATS and/or HB separate from the lottery? Since Tech is in demand, it probably includes them now, too. It's a known thing and the main problem I see is that they almost always seem to be not the normal kids: they're either bullies or the bullied, sped, or mental disorder kids. We were one of these categories that admin and teachers should have prevented but (protected the several mental 504 kids and) didn't until it got escalated above their pay grade. And somehow a spot opened up at one of the lottery schools over that summer without our even asking. How sererendipitous, right?

I call BS. You're not an HB family. You're an HB hater peddling a conspiracy theory.

Huh? Are you all the same people or coincidentally all showing up at the same time? What's an HB hater? Who's not the HB family? Hmm let's see... The school has had two lockdown drills (8/29), the last one being last Thursday. The open house was last Wed, picnic on Friday. There's no PAC meeting this month, first one mid-October. The t-shirt they were selling had an orca on it and was not that great looking. Did I miss anything?

Oh and, there are people that get in that are not at the top of the waitlist. And no they don't all deserve to cut the line.

Trashing a student’s artwork (yes, it was designed by a kid for a fundraiser by the senior class) is a trash move, and I suggest you delete your post.

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Anonymous wrote:And Paul Weiss teaches at HB. He has no chance, but if he did, that’s a very HB/Option heavy sb.

No wonder the Montessori vote went the way that it did!

Don’t Miranda Turner’s kids go to MPSA? She voted against her own interest

I am so confused by Miranda Turner’s vote when she kids at MPSA. Anyone understand this?

Her kids will have moved on to HB-W along like Mary's and Bethany's kids before her by the time MPSA is finished.

I see. So selfish.

People who are trying to sidedoor into an option lottery school are also selfish since there's a waitlist of kids trying to get in. H-B has a number of kids who don't seem to be coming from the waitlist showing up.

How do you know this? Please be specific. You know the names of kids on the waitlist and the names of kids now going to H-B? You know the position of kids on the waitlist and that kids are now at H-B and they could not possibly be off the waitlist at this point? You used the plural--this is multiple kids? From which base schools? How do you know this? Social media? Family friends? You work at APS central?

Thank you. I bet you'll get no answer. People like their conspiracy theories about HB.

Agree -- "undeserving kids are getting into H-B" is the Arlington version of "immigrants are eating cats and dogs" -- red meat to a very specific constituency

So dumb. Comments like this is why we need separate classrooms for different levels of cognitive ability. People that are actually intelligent and engaged in their school communities know the shenanigans that happen in APS admin circles. Do you really not know any examples of people getting into, from the beginning or transferring into ATS and/or HB separate from the lottery? Since Tech is in demand, it probably includes them now, too. It's a known thing and the main problem I see is that they almost always seem to be not the normal kids: they're either bullies or the bullied, sped, or mental disorder kids. We were one of these categories that admin and teachers should have prevented but (protected the several mental 504 kids and) didn't until it got escalated above their pay grade. And somehow a spot opened up at one of the lottery schools over that summer without our even asking. How sererendipitous, right?

I call BS. You're not an HB family. You're an HB hater peddling a conspiracy theory.

Huh? Are you all the same people or coincidentally all showing up at the same time? What's an HB hater? Who's not the HB family? Hmm let's see... The school has had two lockdown drills (8/29), the last one being last Thursday. The open house was last Wed, picnic on Friday. There's no PAC meeting this month, first one mid-October. The t-shirt they were selling had an orca on it and was not that great looking. Did I miss anything?

Oh and, there are people that get in that are not at the top of the waitlist. And no they don't all deserve to cut the line.

So if you are really a parent at this school and you're trashing another kid's artwork then you really suck. I still don't believe you that people get in who are not at the top of the wait list because you offer zero evidence. Zero. None.

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Anonymous wrote:For those people who are so vocal about how the whole program shouldn’t exist because it’s so hard to get in, we know many people in our neighborhood (N Arlington) who have turned down their spots. And many others with a wait list number deep into the wait list who have gotten a seat eventually. So the wait list does move.

Of course people turn it down. I have a kid who is #1 on her elementary waitlist and I doubt we'd take a spot if she was accepted now. She's pretty well settled in at her neighborhood school. She has friends and is happy with her classes. She's planning to play a few middle school sports. Switching now would be a huge upset to a year that's going really well so far.

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Anonymous wrote:And Paul Weiss teaches at HB. He has no chance, but if he did, that’s a very HB/Option heavy sb.

No wonder the Montessori vote went the way that it did!

Don’t Miranda Turner’s kids go to MPSA? She voted against her own interest

I am so confused by Miranda Turner’s vote when she kids at MPSA. Anyone understand this?

Her kids will have moved on to HB-W along like Mary's and Bethany's kids before her by the time MPSA is finished.

I see. So selfish.

People who are trying to sidedoor into an option lottery school are also selfish since there's a waitlist of kids trying to get in. H-B has a number of kids who don't seem to be coming from the waitlist showing up.

How do you know this? Please be specific. You know the names of kids on the waitlist and the names of kids now going to H-B? You know the position of kids on the waitlist and that kids are now at H-B and they could not possibly be off the waitlist at this point? You used the plural--this is multiple kids? From which base schools? How do you know this? Social media? Family friends? You work at APS central?

Thank you. I bet you'll get no answer. People like their conspiracy theories about HB.

Agree -- "undeserving kids are getting into H-B" is the Arlington version of "immigrants are eating cats and dogs" -- red meat to a very specific constituency

So dumb. Comments like this is why we need separate classrooms for different levels of cognitive ability. People that are actually intelligent and engaged in their school communities know the shenanigans that happen in APS admin circles. Do you really not know any examples of people getting into, from the beginning or transferring into ATS and/or HB separate from the lottery? Since Tech is in demand, it probably includes them now, too. It's a known thing and the main problem I see is that they almost always seem to be not the normal kids: they're either bullies or the bullied, sped, or mental disorder kids. We were one of these categories that admin and teachers should have prevented but (protected the several mental 504 kids and) didn't until it got escalated above their pay grade. And somehow a spot opened up at one of the lottery schools over that summer without our even asking. How sererendipitous, right?

I call BS. You're not an HB family. You're an HB hater peddling a conspiracy theory.

Huh? Are you all the same people or coincidentally all showing up at the same time? What's an HB hater? Who's not the HB family? Hmm let's see... The school has had two lockdown drills (8/29), the last one being last Thursday. The open house was last Wed, picnic on Friday. There's no PAC meeting this month, first one mid-October. The t-shirt they were selling had an orca on it and was not that great looking. Did I miss anything?

Oh and, there are people that get in that are not at the top of the waitlist. And no they don't all deserve to cut the line.

That shirt is f'gly but my kid wanted one. My kid got in and from her school a sped kid decided to stay at home school and the first kid on the waitlist got in. Nobody really knows about line cutting. Many decide they want the full school experience. Just look at the AP stuff. It's .... not ideal. And yes, there are a LOT of co-taught classes. That might be b/c special needs kids don't do the types of extra curricular activities that full schools have.

anyway this thread is fun.

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Anonymous wrote:And Paul Weiss teaches at HB. He has no chance, but if he did, that’s a very HB/Option heavy sb.

No wonder the Montessori vote went the way that it did!

Don’t Miranda Turner’s kids go to MPSA? She voted against her own interest

I am so confused by Miranda Turner’s vote when she kids at MPSA. Anyone understand this?

Her kids will have moved on to HB-W along like Mary's and Bethany's kids before her by the time MPSA is finished.

I see. So selfish.

People who are trying to sidedoor into an option lottery school are also selfish since there's a waitlist of kids trying to get in. H-B has a number of kids who don't seem to be coming from the waitlist showing up.

How do you know this? Please be specific. You know the names of kids on the waitlist and the names of kids now going to H-B? You know the position of kids on the waitlist and that kids are now at H-B and they could not possibly be off the waitlist at this point? You used the plural--this is multiple kids? From which base schools? How do you know this? Social media? Family friends? You work at APS central?

Thank you. I bet you'll get no answer. People like their conspiracy theories about HB.

Agree -- "undeserving kids are getting into H-B" is the Arlington version of "immigrants are eating cats and dogs" -- red meat to a very specific constituency

Unmm, are you saying that APS Admin has zero say in sending kids who are struggling at their home school to HB? I know this for a fact to be wrong. Our neighbors child was waitlisted at HB. Reallly had a tough freshman year. Very involved parents. Child was placed at HB sophomore year. Child has several learning differences as well as medical needs. Not debilitating but still. APS moved this kid. It’s been really wonderful for this kid and kids family. May make a huge difference in his whole life for all I know.

I still think it’s deeply wrong and unfair. Either it’s a straight lottery and an unbiased waitlist or it isn’t. I don’t administrators should get to make this call. Sorry. I know people will disagree.

Are you saying that the kid got special treatment and didn't just get in off the waitlist? How does this work? Who made the decision? "APS Admin" is very vague.

Nope. You are an HB apologist. APS says it retains the right to move kids. Ask the Duran. This IS NOT SOME SUPER SECRET THING.