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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“At HBW, all classes are intensified,” - quote from the principal.[/quote]

If this is actually a direct quote I would not be broadcasting it.

Obnoxious.[/quote]

The school motto: Private school. Public dime. [/quote]

I highly doubt the principal actually said that.

I can say that due to HBs schedule all classes meet for less time than the other schools so they have to move faster to r the same material. My kid has never been bored.

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Obv the principal didn’t say the public dime quote  :lol:  :lol: [/quote]

Of course not, I also doubt the principal directly said that all classes at HB are intensified. I would believe that the principal may have said something about the classes at HB feeling more like intensified classes because HB classes need to move faster due to HB's schedule providing less class time for each class, but no they are not actually "intensified." [/quote]

We know he said “feeling more like intensified” and we know why he meant: there aren’t the checked out disruptive kids in their classes like in non-intensified neighborhood school classes. [/quote]

I have a kid at HB and this idea that all of them are well behaved at all times and fully plugged in academically and operating at some higher level consistently is really not true.  Sorry to burst everyone's bubble there are classroom and behavior issues at this school like any other one.  And yes, differentiation is still required.[/quote]

I mean, you can talk about stories or you can use data:

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Suspension-Data-2019-20.pdf

HBW has 5x fewer suspensions.

Can someone track down dropout data for HBW? VDOE lumps them in with home high school. [/quote]

I don't see how you reached your conclusion. From your link, DHMS has 734 students with 9 suspensions, while HBW has 243 students with 2 suspensions. The percentages are nearly the same. In fact, running a Fisher's exact test gives a p-value of 1.0, indicating no statistically significant difference in suspension rates between the two schools.[/quote]

I was looking at high schools.

Middle school suspension is lower consequence so given more freely. [/quote]

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