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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HB Hater, I am sorry your kid (s) didn't get a spot. It really is a random lottery. I have 4 kids and 2 of them are currently at HB and the other 2 did not get spots.  All are doing just fine.  You can see what the odds are for your home school to get a middle school spot. My youngest, the year they got a spot there were 3 spots and only 17 kids applied. That's pretty good odds, and that was at a N Arlington elementary.

My HB kids don't play sports at their home school but it really is a very small number of kids who do. So small, that last year when there was a huge bus driver shortage, HB called taxis to get those kids back to their home schools for practices each day. So it was a very, very small number for each home school. Not something worth causing a fuss over, but you do you.

[b]One academic downside of HB is that there aren't anywhere near the number of honors/intensified or AP classes that the comprehensive high schools offer. [/b]It doesn't seem to affect them much in college admissions, but it's something to note if you have a student who is wanting to take a specific AP course- check the program of studies!

HB Hater, how are your kid (s) doing at their middle or high school?  [/quote]

Do you think this could be an advantage for college admissions, though, for an average-ish student who doesn't want to take all the APs?  This way they can check the "most rigorous" box with only the few APs offered at HB?[/quote]

I’ve heard placement from HB is way better than at WL, so there maybe some credence to that theory. [/quote]

Parent of an HB grad and grads from other APS High schools.

Placement at HB is absolutely better than at WL. But the kids aren't 'better' - you could take an HB kid with a WL kid who both have the same profile and the HB kid will win out each time. HB and college placements are living off the legacy and reputation of having graduated from HB. They aren't better, just living off their laurels.

And I would argue that my kids who graduated from the other APS school had more rigor in some academic courses than my HB kid. More choices, better instruction.

Don't get me wrong, HB was great for my kid who was 'quirky'. But there are not as many quirky kids as people think there compared to kids who would do well anywhere. [/quote]

HB has better placement that a student in the IB program at WL?? Completely false. [/quote]

That is quite the life hack.  IB works you like a sweatshop, but coasting at HBW with less rigorous course options, and you get almost the same placement.  Now I see why knives are out for HBW Admittance![/quote]

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Well my DC is at HB only because they moved off the waitlist for a 9th grade slot when two of the kids who got in ahead of them opted instead to go to W-L for the IB program (base school was Yorktown), and I know of at least two kid who left HB after middle school to go to W-L for the IB program so I don't think everyone shares your opinion.

I love HB and I wish parents would advocate to replicate the model, rather than tearing it down in the vein of "if I can't have nice things, no one should have them."  This is the same issue I had with those parents who fought against building a fourth comprehensive high school unless it had a swimming pool and fields and all the other bells and whistles.  They argued to the school board that everyone should suffer equally rather than have some kids go to a high school without a pool.  I was at that school board meeting and some of those parents were really vocal that that APS should not build a new high school unless it had all the same features of the other three -- never mind the lack of land for such a thing.

My observation is that basically parents are wholly self-interested.  They don't give a damn about school options until after their kid doesn't get into HB.  Then they complain about how unfair it is and want to get rid of HB, and the most vocal people are the ones who applied and didn't get in, so clearly they didn't have a problem with it when they applied.  You don't see a bunch of parents of first graders working to get more high school options, and I never hear parents whose kids didn't apply to HB complain about it.  Basically they don't even think about it.[/quote]

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