Waiver for HB Woodlawn

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:HB has worked out really well for us and I am thankful nearly every day that we (1) thought to enter the lottery during fifth grade and (2) won that lottery. I’m sorry you were not as lucky, but if it helps, my kid did have a terrible elementary school experience, with bullies and an administration that largely failed her (although some of her teachers were life savers). So by the time we got to HB my kid had been through A LOT and she is very happy to be there.

I suggest we make a separate school for the bullies and the mean girls. Then the rest of our kids can learn in peace.

HB parents are delighted at their private school experience on public dime.

News at 11.

Also, water is wet.

Fixed it for you-

I don’t for a second think HB is at all like the (good) private schools around here. But it’s still 100% a program that should be offered in APS.

Hey HB parent milking us neighborhood school parents, you can’t even fix your quote.

I am truly sorry for you that your kid didn't get into HB. There is no need to be nasty to those who did. You would be ok with this existing if your own kid got in, but since you did not, you want to take it away from others. Sorry I don't agree with that.

No I would have preferred the $100M on a 400 seat high school would have been spent to build a 4th high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:HB has worked out really well for us and I am thankful nearly every day that we (1) thought to enter the lottery during fifth grade and (2) won that lottery. I’m sorry you were not as lucky, but if it helps, my kid did have a terrible elementary school experience, with bullies and an administration that largely failed her (although some of her teachers were life savers). So by the time we got to HB my kid had been through A LOT and she is very happy to be there.

I suggest we make a separate school for the bullies and the mean girls. Then the rest of our kids can learn in peace.

HB parents are delighted at their private school experience on public dime.

News at 11.

Also, water is wet.

Fixed it for you-

I don’t for a second think HB is at all like the (good) private schools around here. But it’s still 100% a program that should be offered in APS.

Hey HB parent milking us neighborhood school parents, you can’t even fix your quote.

I am truly sorry for you that your kid didn't get into HB. There is no need to be nasty to those who did. You would be ok with this existing if your own kid got in, but since you did not, you want to take it away from others. Sorry I don't agree with that.

The very fact that you think some anonymous person on an internet forum is jealous of your family for "winning" an exclusive seat at a taxpayer funded school is exactly why HB is a problem. This kind of experience shouldn't be funded by the taxpayers unless it is available to anyone in the district who wants to attend. APS needs to send everyone back to their neighborhood schools. Period.

[Anonymous]

The lottery is available to anyone in the county who wants to attend. Your kid had the same shot mine did. That’s fair. You only think it’s not because yours didn’t win the random lottery.

Should we get rid of everything in APS that all kids can’t have exactly the same? How about AP classes? Sports teams?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The lottery is available to anyone in the county who wants to attend. Your kid had the same shot mine did. That’s fair. You only think it’s not because yours didn’t win the random lottery.

Should we get rid of everything in APS that all kids can’t have exactly the same? How about AP classes? Sports teams?

Multiple people are replying here. How do you know who entered the lottery or how old their kids are? You are looking at this from a "you" perspective and some people are looking at it from a "community" perspective. We get it, you won the lottery so you are good with it. You are entitled to your opinion. Other people see it differently.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The lottery is available to anyone in the county who wants to attend. Your kid had the same shot mine did. That’s fair. You only think it’s not because yours didn’t win the random lottery.

Should we get rid of everything in APS that all kids can’t have exactly the same? How about AP classes? Sports teams?

Multiple people are replying here. How do you know who entered the lottery or how old their kids are? You are looking at this from a "you" perspective and some people are looking at it from a "community" perspective. We get it, you won the lottery so you are good with it. You are entitled to your opinion. Other people see it differently.

Why not make it a magnet school, so at least students who worked hard and excelled could perceive to deserve it.

But right now with lottery, there is always the perception that someone can sneak in.

I would prefer to invest in neighborhood schools since magnets have their own fairness problems

[Anonymous]

I'd drop the middle school program and expand the high school program. I think it would make more sense since many students would opt out for school sports, to stay with friends, and AP/IB/elective/Arlington Tech/Career Center options. Williamsburg has room to absorb that number of MS students.

Then high school students who entered the lotto for HB would be doing so because they felt it was the right fit and not because their parents were trying to avoid an overcrowded APS middle school, irrespective of the HB philosophy.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's fair that some kids are on sports teams that APS pays for (we all pay for), but other kids don't make the teams. Let's cut sports!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The lottery is available to anyone in the county who wants to attend. Your kid had the same shot mine did. That’s fair. You only think it’s not because yours didn’t win the random lottery.

Should we get rid of everything in APS that all kids can’t have exactly the same? How about AP classes? Sports teams?

Multiple people are replying here. How do you know who entered the lottery or how old their kids are? You are looking at this from a "you" perspective and some people are looking at it from a "community" perspective. We get it, you won the lottery so you are good with it. You are entitled to your opinion. Other people see it differently.

Why not make it a magnet school, so at least students who worked hard and excelled could perceive to deserve it.

But right now with lottery, there is always the perception that someone can sneak in.

I would prefer to invest in neighborhood schools since magnets have their own fairness problems

The perception that someone can sneak in is only in your mind, and isn't a real problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's fair that some kids are on sports teams that APS pays for (we all pay for), but other kids don't make the teams. Let's cut sports!

So true! A seasonal sports team is the same thing as an entire high school. You are brilliant!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's fair that some kids are on sports teams that APS pays for (we all pay for), but other kids don't make the teams. Let's cut sports!

So true! A seasonal sports team is the same thing as an entire high school. You are brilliant!

If someone else's kid gets it but mine doesn't, I don't want to pay!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's fair that some kids are on sports teams that APS pays for (we all pay for), but other kids don't make the teams. Let's cut sports!

I would 100% be for that. Just make fitness facilities and pickup games. Sports right now are basically reserved for those who pay for travel sports from kindergarten on, rather than serving the school community. It’s also not a core academic mission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The lottery is available to anyone in the county who wants to attend. Your kid had the same shot mine did. That’s fair. You only think it’s not because yours didn’t win the random lottery.

Should we get rid of everything in APS that all kids can’t have exactly the same? How about AP classes? Sports teams?

Multiple people are replying here. How do you know who entered the lottery or how old their kids are? You are looking at this from a "you" perspective and some people are looking at it from a "community" perspective. We get it, you won the lottery so you are good with it. You are entitled to your opinion. Other people see it differently.

Why not make it a magnet school, so at least students who worked hard and excelled could perceive to deserve it.

But right now with lottery, there is always the perception that someone can sneak in.

I would prefer to invest in neighborhood schools since magnets have their own fairness problems

The perception that someone can sneak in is only in your mind, and isn't a real problem.

BS. I know so many siblings at HB from NA schools. That’s fishy as he11.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The lottery is available to anyone in the county who wants to attend. Your kid had the same shot mine did. That’s fair. You only think it’s not because yours didn’t win the random lottery.

Should we get rid of everything in APS that all kids can’t have exactly the same? How about AP classes? Sports teams?

Multiple people are replying here. How do you know who entered the lottery or how old their kids are? You are looking at this from a "you" perspective and some people are looking at it from a "community" perspective. We get it, you won the lottery so you are good with it. You are entitled to your opinion. Other people see it differently.

Why not make it a magnet school, so at least students who worked hard and excelled could perceive to deserve it.

But right now with lottery, there is always the perception that someone can sneak in.

I would prefer to invest in neighborhood schools since magnets have their own fairness problems

The perception that someone can sneak in is only in your mind, and isn't a real problem.

BS. I know so many siblings at HB from NA schools. That’s fishy as he11.

Hahaha, so you know some siblings at HB, so there must be something fishy? Thanks for the window into how your little mind works. I know so many families who did not get siblings into HB, including my own. What do you make of that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The lottery is available to anyone in the county who wants to attend. Your kid had the same shot mine did. That’s fair. You only think it’s not because yours didn’t win the random lottery.

Should we get rid of everything in APS that all kids can’t have exactly the same? How about AP classes? Sports teams?

Multiple people are replying here. How do you know who entered the lottery or how old their kids are? You are looking at this from a "you" perspective and some people are looking at it from a "community" perspective. We get it, you won the lottery so you are good with it. You are entitled to your opinion. Other people see it differently.

Why not make it a magnet school, so at least students who worked hard and excelled could perceive to deserve it.

But right now with lottery, there is always the perception that someone can sneak in.

I would prefer to invest in neighborhood schools since magnets have their own fairness problems

The perception that someone can sneak in is only in your mind, and isn't a real problem.

BS. I know so many siblings at HB from NA schools. That’s fishy as he11.

Hahaha, so you know some siblings at HB, so there must be something fishy? Thanks for the window into how your little mind works. I know so many families who did not get siblings into HB, including my own. What do you make of that?

The odds of siblings getting in is VERY small.

Your case is typical. Obv there are some lottery entrees, it’s not all rigged. That would be too easy to spot.

What is your point exactly? And why the ad hominem attack on my “mind”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's fair that some kids are on sports teams that APS pays for (we all pay for), but other kids don't make the teams. Let's cut sports!

So true! A seasonal sports team is the same thing as an entire high school. You are brilliant!

If someone else's kid gets it but mine doesn't, I don't want to pay!

Ok, let's make it like sports. Every year families can have an opportunity to lottery in.