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We have a capacity crisis. HB is a boutique program and the new building is going to cost 100mil to house 1000 kids. County is using it as part of Rosslyn revitalization. I'm all for investment in infrastructure, but the whole thing is off the rails.  We need a fourth comprehensive high school. It sucks for the HB people, because they didn't want to move. It's so messed up. [/quote]

Yes, look at the APS CIP that just passed. It includes $100M for 775 "seats" at HB. As a point of comparison, the CIP includes just $8M to add 600 "seats" to Yorktown and W-L (which might just mean more trailers).  CIP here-- http://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/APS-CIP-16-Report-1.6-WEB_FINAL.pdf

And to tie this all back to the college discussion, the acceptance rates at HB aren't any higher than at Yorktown or W-L. So what are we spending all this money to accomplish?  We're getting a really expensive building but not a better educational program.[/quote]

But H-B would have stayed where it was for $0. That decision was not made by the school. [/quote]

It's terrible, but that doesn't mean we should be spending a fortune on HB. It's totally not fair to HB. It's also not fair to the taxpayers and the rest of APS. [/quote]

Agreed but north Arlington parents weren't going to send their middle schoolers to Rosslyn, so here we are.[/quote]

Those of us in Clarendon/Courthouse/Lyon Park/Ashton Heights did not have issues at ALL with that scenario.[/quote]

True. It was the Taylor, Jamestown, Nottingham, Discovery folks that didn't want that. God forbid their children socialize with students of color or different socio-economic statuses.

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It was 100% those parents who fought the Wilson School.  They did spread lies about their kids having to take the public bus to school in the morning b/c APS wouldn't bus them to the "urban school".  Seriously?  Who would fall for that?  They fought hard to get Stratford as a walking school with one hand, while trying to take Reed out of contention as a walking school with the other hand.  Either you are for walking schools or you aren't.  They were for walking schools for just their kids.  They didn't really care what happened to HB as long as they got theirs.[/quote]

And are now covering their tracks by complaining about the greedy H-B folks and their $100M school every chance they get. It's pretty rich. [/quote]

I'm a south Arlington parent and I've been critical of the spending. My kid could possibly win the lottery, and that still wouldn't make any of this sit well with me. [/quote]

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