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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We put four kids all the way through APS, two at HB and two at their neighborhood high school.  Our youngest graduated nearly a decade ago.  Irate parents made the same arguments that you all are making now -- it's not fair, they need to expand, blah blah blah.  Nothing ever changes.  The fact is, all of our kids got good educations, went to good colleges, and turned out fine.  I guarantee that, a decade from now, you are all going to laugh about how much time you wasted worrying about such trivial -- and, I have to say, snowflake -- stuff.  Take a deep breath . . .   [/quote]

Weird post, seeing as how you’re judging others for wanting the same snowflake option—HB—you wanted years ago.[/quote]

+1 but keep judging others if it makes you feel better. [/quote]

You're missing my point.  All I'm saying is that I had kids who applied to HB and didn't get in -- and they went on to the neighborhood high school and did just fine.  I didn't demand that the county expand the program or build a second HB.  HB is not a panacea, and Arlington's neighborhood schools are all first-rate.  You're lucky to have such "problems."[/quote]

Lady, they need at least one more HS just to hold the students who are currently in ES. The question is: do they build a second HB, because it's so popular (I don't care why it's popular, but it is and it could fill up), or do they build a 4th neighborhood HS with less than half the amenities of the other neighborhood HS? That's where we are. HB can grow along with enrollment, to assist the system with its capacity crisis, and to keep neighborhood kids from being forced to attend the one zoned HS that won't have a full offering of extracurricular amenities.[/quote]

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