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[quote=Anonymous]This thread has veered significantly from the original post, but there are valid reasons for the anger directed at HB (and ATS too, for that matter). Both programs are lottery, so it is random luck whether or not you get in. And yet, both programs seem to be immune from growing-- even as every other ES, MS, and HS in the county is bursting at the seams and cramming kids into trailers. HB and ATS have both resisted accepting more kids, arguing that their "program" depends on a small size. And the SB seems to protect them. If HB had said they were willing to grow to 1300 kids, maybe more of the community would have come out to defend their request to stay in their current building. But they didn't want to grow. And so nobody understood why a small school should get to stay on such a big space, while we were cramming more kids into a smaller building in Rosslyn. (And I say this as a Swanson parent who will *not* be redistricted to the new MS.) I have the same objection to ATS. That school sits on a HUGE lot compared to most of the other elementary schools-- three playgrounds, two fields. And yet, they've never been asked to add trailers to the extent of the other ES schools. I think ATS had one trailer last year-- and maybe three trailers this year? So, yes, it makes people really mad that we are spending $100M to build HB a new building when it isn't doing anything to help the capacity crisis.[/quote]

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