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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know HB people.  You gotta know you’re going to get picked on in your brand new building while the rest of our middle school kids are in literal falling down hovels.  Small price to pay while we fight over some pathetic scraps to half ass some renovations for the rest of the middle schools to maybe do some small improvements.[/quote]

See, here's the thing.  HB families were forced to move to where they are now so their old building could be converted to Hamm.  It was the last thing the community wanted to do.  They were perfectly fine in their crappy old building.  So it's really not fair to pin this on them.[/quote]

Stratford is the LARGEST plot of land with a middle school on it. Of course they were happy to stay there; they were given the option of staying if they were willing to expand the school to help middle school overcrowding but they said that the small size was a core necessity of their program.

Lots of students in Arlington have crappy old buildings; most middle school students, tech until last year, probably half of the elementary schools are much much worse. [/quote]

Some parts of Wakefield were falling apart pretty early on after it first opened. Some seriously shoddy construction there. Especially the pool facilities, which opened later.[/quote]

Same with the HB building. They left the floors concrete because they ran out of money, there were problems with floods in the first year leaving classrooms and the gym unusable for a time. And it still doesn’t have enough onsite parking and picking up your kid is a mess.

HB was forced to leave the Stratford site and move to a tiny site in Rosslyn that no one else wanted. There was no choice to stay and expand. They took that land for a middle school. [/quote]

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