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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New Poster with a couple points:
- [b]At the risk of outing myself, I personally spoke out publicly to increase the size of the HB program to align with percent overcrowding of APS. I know some HB people didn’t like it. I now don’t believe in the conspiracy theory on lottery, because my kid got in[/b]. Given what an awful situation the SB has created, we decided to enter the lottery. Believe me, I am not some well-connected person in that commmunkty - quite the opposite. At least 2 of the other kids accepted at our school have zero engagement in APS. The lottery was centrally run this year.

- On use of Wilson for a neighborhood school... doesn’t anyone remember how nasty people from Taylor and Glebe got when that idea was proposed a few years ago? Love that idea, but where were you guys a few years ago?  If we hadn’t let the Westover bullies prevail, we could have put HB at Reed (very clear now that we have too many elementaries planned in that quadrant now and I can’t wait to see them advocate to optionize Tuckahoe); opened a neighborhood high school in Rosslyn (although the North haters would have screamed bloody murder) and still have Stratford as a neighborhood school.[/quote]

Coincidence?

Doubtful.  They want to shut down the squeaky wheels.[/quote]

Is this a joke? If so, it's a funny riff on the paranoia on this topic. Squeaky wheel gets in? They're trying to shut them down. Squeaky wheel doesn't get in? It's because that slot went to some politically connected APS boot licker. A sibling gets in?  It was rigged!  A sibling doesn't get in?  Doesn't prove anything. It's convenient that any outcome can be seen as supporting the conspiracy theories.

Seriously this kind of thinking makes it hard to take the conspiracy theorists seriously. [/quote]

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