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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are kids at HB who play sports for their home school but this isn't possible until high school due to the schedules. If you want the traditional sporty middle and high school experience, don't go to HB. [/quote]

This. HB is for nerds. Anyone who gets in is very lucky. It’s like a private within Arlington. [/quote]

We thought HB was more for quirky introverts...Trekkie types?  Is it a good fit students who are average / below average academically?[/quote]

A high level of self-motivation is recommended since there are more student freedoms than in the comprehensive schools. Students occasionally leave HB for their home schools when it’s not a good fit. [/quote]

Yeah, basically you weed out underperforming and under resourced students — if their parents aren’t on top of HBW lottery or don’t want to deal with a distant school (like how to pickup a sick kid if you have to take bus across county), and then the academic pace encourages slower kids and ESL to leave for easy embrace of neighborhood school. I can’t imagine walking away from that for some team sports.  With 3000 kids at WL, good luck making the team![/quote]

It's actually much easier to make sports teams at W-L than at Yorktown due to demographics. The vast majority of student athletes at Yorktown are competing for limited spots, whereas at W-L a smaller number of student athletes are competing for limited spots, even though the school is larger. More students at Yorktown are on travel teams and other competitive clubs than at W-L by virtue of the neighborhoods that are zoned to it. That said, W-L is still competitive, so it's not exactly easy to make certain cut sports teams. [/quote]

True, WL has been bulking up with higher FARMS student so no money for travel teams there. [/quote]

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