HB Admissions are rigged

[Anonymous]

I know people who got in and didn't go through the normal application process. Drives me crazy! Why is this school still here when it's so unfairly adminsitered?

[Anonymous]

Ok

[Anonymous]

It's not a secret, just look at the transfer reports from APS and they'll show that while most come from the usual application/transfer process, there are a handful of people who go there due to placement by the administration outside the regular process. There are a variety of reasons why someone might be placed there outside the process, and those reasons aren't anyone else's business.

[Anonymous]

The only way they can get away with limited enrollment is to make it fair. But it isn't. APS should shut the whole program down.

[Anonymous]

For the new hybrid, APS should expand IB at the Ed Center and make HB #2 at the Career Center. They won't have to rezone, and in-demand programs basically double their slots.

But of course, they won't create a second HB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only way they can get away with limited enrollment is to make it fair. But it isn't. APS should shut the whole program down.

What determines fair? How do you know that the reasons for the small number of students who get in other than through the application process weren't placed there for very good reasons? It truly is a small number, last school year, of the 244 middle school students at HB Woodlawn, 241 came in through the application process and 3 through administrative placement. At the high school level, out of 443 total students, 4 were there by administrative/special placement, and 439 by the countywide lottery. I'm sorry your child didn't make it into HB Woodlawn, but the placements of these students in the school weren't the reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only way they can get away with limited enrollment is to make it fair. But it isn't. APS should shut the whole program down.

What determines fair? How do you know that the reasons for the small number of students who get in other than through the application process weren't placed there for very good reasons? It truly is a small number, last school year, of the 244 middle school students at HB Woodlawn, 241 came in through the application process and 3 through administrative placement. At the high school level, out of 443 total students, 4 were there by administrative/special placement, and 439 by the countywide lottery. I'm sorry your child didn't make it into HB Woodlawn, but the placements of these students in the school weren't the reason.

We didn't even apply. I am so opposed to this school I wouldn't want it if we did get in. I think it stinks, and I don't like paying for your snowflake to go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only way they can get away with limited enrollment is to make it fair. But it isn't. APS should shut the whole program down.

What determines fair? How do you know that the reasons for the small number of students who get in other than through the application process weren't placed there for very good reasons? It truly is a small number, last school year, of the 244 middle school students at HB Woodlawn, 241 came in through the application process and 3 through administrative placement. At the high school level, out of 443 total students, 4 were there by administrative/special placement, and 439 by the countywide lottery. I'm sorry your child didn't make it into HB Woodlawn, but the placements of these students in the school weren't the reason.

We didn't even apply. I am so opposed to this school I wouldn't want it if we did get in. I think it stinks, and I don't like paying for your snowflake to go there.

Were you born an awful person or is this learned behavior after living in this area? Serious question.

You worry about you.

[Anonymous]

Signed,
A Fed-Up Taxpayer

p.s. go to private school if you want limited enrolmment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only way they can get away with limited enrollment is to make it fair. But it isn't. APS should shut the whole program down.

What determines fair? How do you know that the reasons for the small number of students who get in other than through the application process weren't placed there for very good reasons? It truly is a small number, last school year, of the 244 middle school students at HB Woodlawn, 241 came in through the application process and 3 through administrative placement. At the high school level, out of 443 total students, 4 were there by administrative/special placement, and 439 by the countywide lottery. I'm sorry your child didn't make it into HB Woodlawn, but the placements of these students in the school weren't the reason.

We didn't even apply. I am so opposed to this school I wouldn't want it if we did get in. I think it stinks, and I don't like paying for your snowflake to go there.

My snowflake doesn't go there either. He didn't get in, and I still don't have bitterness about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only way they can get away with limited enrollment is to make it fair. But it isn't. APS should shut the whole program down.

What determines fair? How do you know that the reasons for the small number of students who get in other than through the application process weren't placed there for very good reasons? It truly is a small number, last school year, of the 244 middle school students at HB Woodlawn, 241 came in through the application process and 3 through administrative placement. At the high school level, out of 443 total students, 4 were there by administrative/special placement, and 439 by the countywide lottery. I'm sorry your child didn't make it into HB Woodlawn, but the placements of these students in the school weren't the reason.

We didn't even apply. I am so opposed to this school I wouldn't want it if we did get in. I think it stinks, and I don't like paying for your snowflake to go there.

Were you born an awful person or is this learned behavior after living in this area? Serious question.

You worry about you.

I don't think my behavior is awful, and I think I'm pretty nice. I'm just tired of paying this program that we can't afford where some kids are more equal than others. It's bad enough when admissions are fair, but if it's not fair, it's unacceptable. I think most people would agree with me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only way they can get away with limited enrollment is to make it fair. But it isn't. APS should shut the whole program down.

What determines fair? How do you know that the reasons for the small number of students who get in other than through the application process weren't placed there for very good reasons? It truly is a small number, last school year, of the 244 middle school students at HB Woodlawn, 241 came in through the application process and 3 through administrative placement. At the high school level, out of 443 total students, 4 were there by administrative/special placement, and 439 by the countywide lottery. I'm sorry your child didn't make it into HB Woodlawn, but the placements of these students in the school weren't the reason.

We didn't even apply. I am so opposed to this school I wouldn't want it if we did get in. I think it stinks, and I don't like paying for your snowflake to go there.

Were you born an awful person or is this learned behavior after living in this area? Serious question.

You worry about you.

I don't think my behavior is awful, and I think I'm pretty nice. I'm just tired of paying this program that we can't afford where some kids are more equal than others. It's bad enough when admissions are fair, but if it's not fair, it's unacceptable. I think most people would agree with me.

Let me guess. APS using TJ is also a travesty?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only way they can get away with limited enrollment is to make it fair. But it isn't. APS should shut the whole program down.

What determines fair? How do you know that the reasons for the small number of students who get in other than through the application process weren't placed there for very good reasons? It truly is a small number, last school year, of the 244 middle school students at HB Woodlawn, 241 came in through the application process and 3 through administrative placement. At the high school level, out of 443 total students, 4 were there by administrative/special placement, and 439 by the countywide lottery. I'm sorry your child didn't make it into HB Woodlawn, but the placements of these students in the school weren't the reason.

We didn't even apply. I am so opposed to this school I wouldn't want it if we did get in. I think it stinks, and I don't like paying for your snowflake to go there.

My snowflake doesn't go there either. He didn't get in, and I still don't have bitterness about it.

One man's bitterness is another man's fed-up-ness. I'm more of the fed up person questioning the sanity and fairness of spending taxpayer dollars on this snowflake school. Hippie High. Barf. It is all so self-congratulatory.

[Anonymous]

But are admissions really rigged?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But are admissions really rigged?

No, they're not.