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People who can afford to live in the WL zone can afford to live elsewhere and send their kids to another high school (ahem, Wakefield) if they want. They made choices with their money about where to live and what schools to send their kids to. Don't feel sorry that they paid so much to send their kids to crowded schools, it's not like we didn't see this coming the ENTIRE TIME their kids were in school. [/quote]

Sure, everyone has seen it coming – but it’s also not unreasonable to expect that the school board would have actually done something about it in all this time.  Like use some of that insane $$$$ spent to build the new HBW building on a new HS.  [/quote]

They effectively spent it on a new middle school (moved HB and added Hamm)[/quote]

Why didn’t they just vacant office space for HB students?  They are free to leave campus even in middle school, it’s a focus on independence and self directed study, so some converted office spaces with lots of white boards for Socratic discussions seems right up the alley, and would have cost almost nothing. [/quote]

What are you talking about with Socratic discussions? HB kids take all the same classes as other APS kids (fewer choices, if anything) and have the same graduation requirements. The independence and self directed study has to do with being responsible for how they use their free periods and deciding how to spend the PTA budget--they aren't teaching themselves chemistry and APUSH.

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Even better, they converted offices of Ed center to classrooms, so any office should be able to converted similarly and since their classes are just like the other high school students, let them loose in a high rise and turn Heights into a normal high school where kids cant come and go.[/quote]

Presumably the kids in classrooms at the Ed Center will be using the non-classroom spaces in the main W-L building for all of those activities....theater, gym, library, band room, cafeteria..... How would that work with a standalone office building? [/quote]

HB students can go off campus for lunch, and most office buildings have a cafe that could be converted to school use, they don't have a theater now just a blackbox, it would be easy to build a library or simply request books from other schools to be sent to HB like they do now, and band room can either be done at home campus, and they can then participate in marching band and such as well.[/quote]

What would be the purpose of this?  They already have a school building.

It's not like renting vacant office buildings is free, no matter what you put in there.

We need a proper 4th HS and that tiny building in Rosslyn doesn't work except for a small program like HB.  The building has a capacity limit.[/quote]

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