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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They need to remove the sports option from HB. It’s patently unfair to students at those high schools, and would help filter out parents who chose HB just for the private school on public dime vibe. [/quote]

Man are you bitter.  [/quote]

Yeah, I’ve been pushing for a 4th high school for a decade and instead a small subset of kids get to escape the warehouse that is APS. And I’m pretty skeptical of the lottery because of the siblings from wealthy families phenomenon. [/quote]

You’re as bad as a Trump conspiracy theorist if you truly feel that way about the lottery.  And there are several other small programs in Arlington.  Should they all be eliminated too?   [/quote]

1) The other programs are actively trying to increase enrollment.  When HB was moved to a new building (I know, they want to keep their existing old building, with one of the largest acreages that APS owns), at every stage they claimed that the small size was fundamental to their program.  So HB is in a different sort than the other programs, which do not claim that they need to remain small -- the will grow to their facility size.  Heights could have had much higher capacity (the original plan was to put 1200 students neighborhood middle school on the site in fact), so HB could have grown its program, even by simply allowing more entries at high school and reduced the strain on neighborhood high schools.

2) I don't think any of the program should return to their home high school for sports. Its added cost to the county; if people believe in a program, they can find other opportunities for sports (and there is financial aid for sports like soccer etc).

3) Calculate the odds of siblings getting into HB.   https://www.apsva.us/school-options/middle-school-choices/middle-school-countywide/
Each grade is about 12®0 students, and there are generally about 2 slots. Let's be conservative and say about 1/3 of grade applies (but for schools in NA I suspect the number is much higher).  With those numbers, the odds of siblings getting in are 0.04% or 1 in 2500.  I personally know of at least 2 families in NA.  Sorry if math makes me a conspiracy theorist.

4) Sure its heartwarming to hear of those quirky kids who got to go to HB -- too bad the majority of quirky kids are bering stuffed into high schools designed for half their student population size in classes way above Arlington targets.   HB has ONE class that is over 27 students.  Meanwhile WL has about 60 classes over the target of 27 (and APS sneakily doesn't report HOW BIG those classes actually are, just that they are over 27.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-22-Class-Size-Report.pdf

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and here it is... it only took 2 pages for the HB haters to come out. [/quote]

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