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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swanson... but all APS schools are full to bursting. Except HB.[/quote]

But what are the class sizes like at Swanson? [/quote]

Look at my post at 23:06. I am describing Swanson where my DD is a 7th grader. Yes, the teachers are generally handling the overcrowding the best they can but do you want your child in that far from ideal atmosphere at the same time other students have HB????[/quote]

Ok. Swanson is overcrowded, but not "class sizes" as OP posted.

HB is NOT the problem. It's the huge increase in students. We need to build another middle school (already in the works), not tear down an existing, successful program. These complaints just sound like sour grapes. Focus on the actual problem and let's fix that. 
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How is it not the problem when the county is about to spend $100 million that they could spend on buying the land needed for the high school we desperately need?  It is about resources.[/quote]

Talk to the Taylor families who forced H-B out of their space. That wasn't H-B's choice. The money is effectively to open up a new middle school. 
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The Taylor families didn't "force" HB out. There is a crisis in middle school seats right now and it is getting worse each year. The HB community has worked he BLPC process (where decisions get made about the project). They kept pushing to get more and more, to the point that they overran the original budget. It seems like they are doing this for spite since they got "forced out@. The most ridiculous thing we are paying for is to move the graffiti walls from HB to the new site. That is a waste of taxpayer dollars. No issue if the PTA and alumni raised funds for moving the walls, but inappropriate as a taxpayer expense.

And to hit on the comment that HB is already co-located. Yes - you are with Stratford, which has a TINY population. HB fought hard publicly about co-locating with programs such as Montessori or a countywide preschool, because they were worried if more seats were in that site, they might have to expand in the future. Selfish and hateful.

My latest favorite entitled HB complaint is about the temporary fire station, which will have animoact for a couple years max. This, while there is hardly any green space at McKinley and Swanson and Williamsburg are turning into trailer parks. And we have 3 high schools that will easily hit 3,000 students (in buildings that were built for 1800) in the foreseeable future.

Why should 775 HB kids get so much relative to the 12,000 other APS middle and high schoolers. HB is not the 1%, but pretty close at 6%![/quote]

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