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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HB can’t be a comprehensive or neighborhood school because it doesn’t have the fields or space needed. It can only function as a choice school. Kids can’t be forced to go there but they can choose to go there. I guess it could aKai be used aa office space for staff? The symbiotic relationship between this space and the choice school has been explained several times now but clearly some people don’t get it. [/quote] You are on to something. Make hb the totally walkable school for Roslyn. That should make it diverse and full of apartment dwellers so maybe even lower income. Oh but wait, upthread somebody said something about not on their dime so I guess only the richest in Arlington should get into hb? So confused. Also, the amount of diainfo on this thread is astounding. [/quote] I agree that there are so many argumentative fallacies, but it's from the HB proponents. It's disinformation if someone disagrees with you, eh? I'm the OP who is tired of paying for option schools becoming a way for privileged parents to get a better, even safer education for their children at the expense of others who could use the same. If you took all the VPI programs from the elementary schools and the English learner programs out of ArlTech and HB, I'm sure that you would truly have your white paradise with even "higher educational outcomes." I also am the person who is cool with all option programs going away. HB-W has just over 700 children. With enrollment going down over the next several years, I'm sure they can be absorbed into the system, especially at the MS level. The last time I checked, APS will severely underfunded over the next several years. Sell the building to the county and get that big Rosslyn money for our schools. The career center site can be our 4th high school. The other option schools can relieve overcrowding, or be used as swing space for renovation. If you want a HB type program, I'm sure you can use lessons learned in the neighborhood schools.[/quote] It sounds like you are saying that since everyone can't go to HB, no one should be able to go? So everything should be exactly uniform across all schools with no special programs or options for different environments or learning styles? That just doesn't make sense. Many, many school districts in our area and across the country have special schools of some sort, whether magnet programs, tech focus, performing arts, etc. Yes, it means students must apply (through lottery, testing, auditions, etc) and not everyone who tries gets in, but overall these programs are beneficial and make the school system stronger and more desirable. [/quote] I'm saying that if you can't bring more equity into HB, then yes, it can't be a haven for rich white [but quirky] students either. Quirky doesn't apply for the marginalized. It's dangerous to be different if you're a poor child of color and multi marginalized. I also know that whatever I said above in a pipe dream because too many rich white families benefit from HB-W and will fight for their kid's opportunities. I mean, look at this thread and others. So let's not pretend that you give one fcuk to those who aren't in your sphere. [/quote] I'm the pp and I'm not rich or white, but okay.... Your faux concern for my minority children is touching. I'm not sure if you're suggesting eliminating HB entirely so that the poor children of color can continue in their status quo of dangerous multi-marginalization? Or are you suggesting HB become exclusively a haven for poor minority children? Either way, you sound angry and irrational.[/quote] I'm a minority too, so please sit down. I'm SAYING not even suggesting that HB will continue to exist as a haven for mostly white and/or privileged people. I vote to get rid of it, but I know I'm outnumbered. So it continues without any equity.[/quote] There’s nothing more equitable than a lottery system. [/quote] It would be more equitable if more kids had a chance to attend by switching to being HS only. [/quote]
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