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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep the HB lottery based on elementary school assignments. Give disadvantaged kids extra weight (one entry is double or triple counted for example for FRM, [b]EL[/b] or SWD). [/quote]

Why? That would give non US citizens an extra shot at a coveted school. That’s messed up.[/quote]

Did this thread go Maga? [/quote]

APE in the house. 
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HB is a haven for queer kids. Gross to see people who don't want it to exist. Just like they don't want gay/trans kids to exist. [/quote]

If it's a haven for queer kids, wouldn't you want other LGBT+ children to have the same benefit? Also SPED kids?

Not all can get into HB.

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The question is why you want to take it away from those who are there and really need it? [/quote]

But why is it a haven for queer kids?[/quote]
The lottery is just really, really good at picking queer kids.[/quote]

And SPED kids too!  :roll: [/quote]

Yeah, the subset of kids who a) aren't into sports and b) aren't hyper-focused on college and willing to go to a school that has fewer APs/no IB option/isn't TJHSST and c) has limited integration with the Career Center/is not Arlington Tech. It's ANOTHER OPTION. [/quote]

Actually fewer AB and IB is a BOOST for college admissions. You are scored on if you took all the “most advanced” classes offered; and since those classes are APS honors at best, they are far easier to ace than scoring a 5 on a dozen AP exams. [/quote]

Not quite.  College transcripts show rankings of HB Woodlawn students in relation to the kids at their home comprehensive schools, not just as compared to other HB Woodlawn students.  So not being able to take all the same APs as their home schools will push their ranks down compared to the comprehensive high school kids.  As others in this thread have said, it's a tradeoff.

HB does not cost more per student than the comprehensive schools, and now with the hub zones the transportation costs are in line as well.  I'm not sure how to pull up the APS reports to prove this but some Yorktown kid wrote a school newspaper article discussing this in 2023.  They still wanted to nix all options programs just because, but even they admitted HB didn't cost more than other schools and argued other option programs should reign in spending like HB did, fwiw.[/quote]

You are talking about ranking. There will be a checkbox that they took the highest level course available. [/quote]

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