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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HB is an incredible program and a great size.  Just because your kids didn't get in don't mess it up for those that are thriving here.[/quote]

So my kid and many many others get to survive but not thrive in a massively overcrowded MS and a massively overcrowded HS so that relatively speaking a few kids can thrive by attending the equivalent of private school without paying tuition just because they got lucky? Because that’s exactly what is going on.

Signed,
Parent of 8th grader at Swanson whose HS is W-L and who is 150+ on the waitlist for HB[/quote]

So give me an idea of what it is like at an overcrowded MS/HS.  APS, the School Board and many parents have no issue with being over 100%.  My children are younger so we haven't had to deal with this yet.  Are we talking standing room only in the cafeteria and classrooms?  Impossible to get into classes/sports/clubs?  I don't have any perspective on what the real impact is because many people (APS/SB/Parents) seem to have no issues with it.[/quote]

Trailers for an entire grade with rats running through them.

Lunch at 10am.[/quote]

Have to share a  locker with another student except that both of the students' stuff will not all fit, especially in winter, but you're not allowed to carry around the stuff that does not fit in your backpack because the hallways are too crowded for anyone to wear a backpack during the school day.

Hallways and stairways that are so crowded that god forbid there is an emergency and all the students and staff need to leave the building in a hurry.

Go to the library for "quiet lunch" because the cafeteria is jam-packed but then you get to the library and it is super crowded too.

Join the book club only to see that 40+ other students did too.  How do that many kids discuss a book, considering book clubs are supposed to be small and discussion based.

Have to buy or check out from library books for English class because the teachers do not have enough copies.

Have band classes that are so large that it is impossible for the teacher to actually teach every one.

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+100 to all of this.

It's far-reaching.[/quote]

And yet, when the only option to alleviate crowding is being zoned to a less highly rated school, parents pick the overcrowded school every time. They're listening to you and responding to YOU. They can't give you what you want (small non-crowded school in the location of your choice because there are too many of you clustered into a few specific areas), but they are giving you what you've said you prefer among the real choices available. [/quote]

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