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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Let’s not forget HB that there are no intensified classes offered. [/b] You keep talking about AP classes but fail to mention  that your students are taking all basic classes with those.  The students at Yorktown, Wakefield, and W&L are having to take these AP classes along with intensified classes to be competitive.[/quote]

People keep repeating this, but it is not accurate.   HB [u]does[/u] offer intensified math options in every grade.  I wish people that don't actually know would stop repeating things that are not true.

And it is also worth noting that at least in middle school, HB's courses [i]all [/i]move at an "intensified" pace because they have to compress the curriculum into a shorter amount of total class hours than the other schools, to allow for [b]their extra electives[/b], weekly town hall, etc.[/quote]

This is a huge unfair advantage in my book.[/quote]

Well, again you don't know what you're talking about. Look at it this way. The kids who take AP classes at HB have 1/5 less class time to learn all the material and prepare for the same exam. I guess you think that's somehow an advantage too? [/quote]

One thing can be an advantage and a different thing be a disadvantage. Not a matter of not knowing what I'm talking about. Rather, knowing what is being talked about. Being able to take more electives is an advantage and has nothing to do with how much time there is to get ready for an AP exam. But you go ahead and keep clinging to the unfairness of the HB AP situation outweighing anything else or anyone else's opinions.[/quote]

Ok let's refresh what's being talking about. [b]I guess I have to remind you that you literally said a couple posts above that HB kids have an advantage because all courses move at an "intensified" pace. [/b]

I pointed out in response that this isn't actually the advantage that you think it is.

As for being able to take more electives, I guess they can in theory. But the kids at HB are counseled not to fill up all 8 periods so the vast majority take 7 classes, same as the other schools. And HB has far fewer electives to choose from anyways. [/quote]

And I'll remind you that there is more than one other poster than you on this chain. I'm not the one who said that.[/quote]

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