HB -- what is it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just noting that you haven't once acknowledged the clear errors you have made in spreading disinformation in this post: HB's lower class sizes are subsidized through cutting non-teaching staff so it doesn't cost more; HB is not inflating the percentage of special needs kids it provides services to (which is comparatively high) by counting non-disabled, gifted kids as special needs (wut that was cray), etc. The list is probably longer but my patience is worn out.

There is one particular parent who applied to HB for their kid but didn't get in and has now pretty much made a personal vow to destroy HB in manner of comic book villain, fyi.

There is not ONE parent. I’ve made one of these statements that HB is self selective and more expensive, but not the rest of them. You keep responding like it is one parent. HB has smaller classes, lower special needs and higher SES than the county secondary avg. It had great higher transportation costs. Those are facts.

Oh, and I didn’t apply either of my kids. Would have been a terrible fit for them. They love their neighborhood friends. They want to go to their neighborhood school. So they will go to their crowded school with large classes. But, they can walk everywhere. See friends.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^ I am with you. This HB poster acts like we haven’t all been thru APS and don’t know it’s weaknesses. The counseling service at DC middle school is a joke. We know that HB is a better school with smaller classes. That is a fact. Stop trying to act like APS HS and MS are in any way equal to the education you get at HB with your trade off nonsense.

DP - My kid is at HB and had not received any counseling services at all. What counseling are you expecting in middle school?

Child with an IEP. Does your child have an IEP?

[Anonymous]

The population of LD children at HB is mostly ADHD IEP .

Please cite your data on this. Or is this just your opinion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The population of LD children at HB is mostly ADHD IEP .

Please cite your data on this. Or is this just your opinion?



ADHD isn’t LD for IEPs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The population of LD children at HB is mostly ADHD IEP .

Please cite your data on this. Or is this just your opinion?

ADHD isn’t LD for IEPs.

NP. Yes, it is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The population of LD children at HB is mostly ADHD IEP .

Please cite your data on this. Or is this just your opinion?

ADHD isn’t LD for IEPs.

NP. Yes, it is.

No, ADHD falls under the category of "Other Health Impairment". A learning disability is under the category "Specific Learning Disability". They are 2 separate classifications. You can have both, and have a primary and secondary classification. But you wouldn't just have ADHD and be classified under SLD.

[Anonymous]

As a parent of an HB student, I will say that the school is less diverse than the county desires, but there are significant efforts to encourage minority kids to apply, such as to better educate minority parents about the various transfer options. All of the transfer options in Arlington (such as the IB program at WL and Arlington Tech) are predominantly used by wealthier, white students. The greater obstacle is that a lot of minority kids prefer to stay in their neighborhood schools rather than being in a small minority at a distant school.

The biggest difference in HB versus the other high schools is that the HB teachers are happier. Teachers in the other APS high school have been beaten down by over-involved parents who care more about their kids getting high grades than whether the teachers are actually teaching. Parents at HB are just as crazy, but have the option of moving back to zoned schools.

[Anonymous]

When dinosaurs ruled the earth, kids got into H-B on a first-come first serve basis, so parents with means would literally camp out in front of the school on admissions day to get a slot. Seeing the obvious unfairness of it all, a county-wide lottery was instituted. When the county-wide lottery proved to skew the school too white and privileged (because only the white and privileged were informed enough to know of the program), the school began weighing minority applicants at up to nine times that of white applicants to increase diversity. White parents sued, and that system was thrown out. At that point, the lottery assigned a certain number of slots to each elementary school in the hope that more minority applicants would be captured.

The bottom line: HB and APS have been working literally for generations to improve HB's diversity. But it's always been the way that the privileged are more likely to be aware of and search out educational alternatives for their kids.

And privileged parents of denied kids have been complaining for just as long. It's not the underprivileged who are complaining about HB's existence. Trust me.