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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HB needs to go. This pathways program should be the impetus. It doesn’t enroll enough students to be anything but an unfair lottery indulgence AND “democratic caring community” is not a thing.  The rest of the county should get together and demand that it be shut down and used for a real need. [/quote]

So non-HB schools are authoritarian, ruthless serfdom? Like if you have one pathway for the Democratic and caring, what does that say about what you’re leaving behind?[/quote]

It was a feeble and inept attempt by the principal of HB to describe its "pathway." I don't think Syphax academic staff even bothered to write it, probably because they're clueless but also because nobody seems to be able to define HB's unique instructional program. I think the SB suggested eliminating that phrase for the exact reason people here are saying. Personally, I think if you can't justify your program with a meaningful description of what it is, there's no real need for the program.[/quote]

HB program description (old): kids struggling in traditional school environment because of dyslexia or other mild LD, high interest in arts or theater or writing, and likes pot

HB program description (now): private school classroom size available to a select few lottery winners[/quote]

Yes, it was designed to be the weird school for weird kids but the lottery system means that there's no way to determine which kid really "needs" the environment so it's entirely random. [/quote]

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