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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, APS doesn’t need high school seats. It does need middle school seats. You are “solving” a non-existent problem. [/quote]
The problem is the unfairness and segregation of HB.  It doesn't make sense in a public system.[/quote]

[b]If you're worried about segregration, you should be a lot more worried about the neighborhood schools. [/b]

But that's not your issue is it - you just want to find a reason to hate on HB. Just because your kid didn't get in doesn't mean it's not fair. [/quote]
HB's stats on this are worse than any neighborhood HS, including Yorktown.

And I really don't hate HB or options, so you can stop accusing me of that.  I just think HB needs a refresh.  I'm not suggesting closing it or making it a neighborhood school.  It would still be a smaller APS option school in the same location.  [/quote]

Pretty rich that someone who knows nothing about a successful program decides it needs a refresh. Why don't you focus on a refresh of your own kid's school? Where does YOUR kid go? Let's have that conversation. [/quote]

Meh, I know a bunch of super, super disappointed parents who didn't get their kid in for middle school who would love a shot at a high school spot.

Pretty rich of you to say your kid deserves 7 years of a special school while other kids don't ever get the option.[/quote]

And they WILL get another shot in the 9th grade lottery for HB. But you didn't know that was a thing did you? [/quote]
Of course I know that's a thing. You can apply for the lottery every year.  But I also know that applicants vastly exceed demand.  Some (already privileged) students are still getting 7 years of HB while others are getting none.[/quote]

No you don't know how it works. You don't know what you don't know, but you still think you need to fix a non existent problem. Sit down. Take a deep breath. Focus on your own kid's school. It'll be ok. [/quote]

There is nothing a single parent can do on a 3000 student school. Principals are swamped with discipline and disability issues, campaigning for more engaged teachers is absolutely ignored.

Self selected, majority white, lower FARMS, and 1/4 the size of other schools, HB parents have much more of a voice. [/quote]

A very important factor you are missing is that the teachers are self-selected to teach there. They have to agree to take on a TA (counseling), they have to agree to teach a weird schedule and courseload (4 intense periods per week and a moving schedule, often combined AP/regular classes), they have to agree that they won't have any of the regular educational/structural/disciplinary supports (no bells, no attendance enforcement in high school, very few IEP aides, kids in the halls, open campus), they have very limited opportunities for career progression, and they have to agree to have a different kind of relationship with the students (first names, town meeting with teachers and students).

The teachers are a huge part of why H-B is what it is--and you can't easily describe all that as "pedagogy"--but you also can't easily replicate it or just make more teachers sign up to do all that, esp. for the same pay as a "regular" teaching experience.  [/quote]

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