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[quote=Anonymous]HB can’t be a fourth comprehensive high school because it has no field space for sports.

The admin makes the HB model work by eliminating non teaching staff like guidance counselors and psychologists etc and having everyone in admin teach classes, including principals etc. (And assigning each kid one teacher per year to be their TA or guidance counselor).  That way they keep the school running at slightly smaller class sizes on the same amount of money as other schools because they don’t pay for counselors etc.

I would guess that if you tried to turn everything into a high school HB could lose about a quarter (?) of its teachers right off the bat who focus more on middle school teaching than high school. I think there would also be problems with providing proper guidance by teachers when you don’t have a history with the kids and when you get assigned more kids to counsel because all your classes are now high school size enrollment.

Not to mention the integration the school does at the middle school level with the Shriver program.

Basically you are saying just use HB for its building and strip away the rest of the program that previously gave it purpose and identity.

Man, I fought like hell 10 years ago to get the school board to turn Kenmore into a fourth comprehensive high school but could not make it happen. Now my kid is in middle school at HB and you want to kick him out for this weird idea that clearly comes from a place of not knowing or understanding anything about the philosophy of the school at all, you just want empty seats?  I feel for your cause (and I was the one sounding the alarm ten years ago and also tried to get parents of younger kids involved at that time, where were you?) but I do not wish to subscribe to your newsletter. [/quote]

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