Reply to APS HWB 90 minute blocks

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "APS HWB 90 minute blocks"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HB doesn’t have a large cafeteria. Students can eat anywhere around the school- there is a big terraced indoor area, there are multiple outdoor areas, some kids eat in favorite classrooms or have a spot where they meet friends in the halls. Most kids do not eat in the cafeteria. 
Can’t speak to the cafeteria line as my kids bring lunch or sometimes leave campus to get something, which high schoolers are allowed to do. Middle schoolers can also leave but have a more limited area they are permitted to go.

I’ve had kids at both HB and a neighborhood high school. Neither school did any “college counseling” in terms of giving my kid input on their list or helping them develop their list of schools. Both had parent and student meetings for how the application process worked at each schools to make sure applications were complete, how to get recommendations, etc. Most schools require a counselor letter of recommendation and the advantage here is that your TA class teacher is the person who serves as your counselor so they know you quite well from multiple years as opposed to your neighborhood school counselor who may have 100+ seniors on their counseling roster. [/quote]

I have had kids at both too. The information given out by the counseling office at the home school was much much more extensive and useful than what HB gave out. And I do like HB, but in this respect it was really lacking. Probably because HB has no counseling office. My other kid's high school has a counselor just dedicated to college stuff in addition to all the other counselors. It was a big difference. [/quote]

Again, HB kids do very well and typically better than the neighborhood high school kids on the college front so it couldn't have been a "big difference."[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics