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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And Paul Weiss teaches at HB. He has no chance, but if he did, that’s a very HB/Option heavy sb.

No wonder the Montessori vote went the way that it did![/quote]
Don’t Miranda Turner’s kids go to MPSA? She voted against her own interest [/quote]

I am so confused by Miranda Turner’s vote when she kids at MPSA. Anyone understand this?[/quote]

Her kids will have moved on to HB-W along like Mary's and Bethany's kids before her by the time MPSA is finished. [/quote]

I see. So selfish. [/quote]

People who are trying to sidedoor into an option lottery school are also selfish since there's a waitlist of kids trying to get in. H-B has a number of kids who don't seem to be coming from the waitlist showing up.[/quote]

How do you know this? Please be specific. You know the names of kids on the waitlist and the names of kids now going to H-B? You know the position of kids on the waitlist and that kids are now at H-B and they could not possibly be off the waitlist at this point? You used the plural--this is multiple kids? From which base schools? How do you know this? Social media? Family friends? You work at APS central? [/quote]

Thank you. I bet you'll get no answer. People like their conspiracy theories about HB. [/quote]

Agree -- "undeserving kids are getting into H-B" is the Arlington version of "immigrants are eating cats and dogs" -- red meat to a very specific constituency[/quote]

Unmm, are you saying that APS Admin has zero say in sending kids who are struggling at their home school to HB?  I know this for a fact to be wrong.  Our neighbors child was waitlisted at HB.  Reallly had a tough freshman year.  Very involved parents.  Child was placed at HB sophomore year.  Child has several learning differences as well as medical needs.  Not debilitating but still.  APS moved this kid.  It’s been really wonderful for this kid and kids family.   May make a huge difference in his whole life for all I know.

I still think it’s deeply wrong and unfair.  Either it’s a straight lottery and an unbiased waitlist or it isn’t.   I don’t administrators should get to make this call.  Sorry.  I know people will disagree. [/quote]

Are you saying that the kid got special treatment and didn't just get in off the waitlist? How does this work? Who made the decision? "APS Admin" is very vague.[/quote]

Nope.  You are an HB apologist.  APS says it retains the right to move kids.  Ask the Duran. This IS NOT SOME SUPER SECRET THING. [/quote]

OK, the enrollment in June for HB was:

6th: 81
7th: 82
8th: 79
9th: 137
10th: 113
11th: 113
12th: 113

So, maybe a couple of kids leave (people move, kids change their mind) each year and a couple of kids move off the wait list and a couple of kids have admin transfers but there is no evidence that there is massive gaming of the system. The initial lotteries for 6th and 9th are open to the public so I don't see how school board members or anyone else manipulates those. After that, there are pretty limited opportunities for APS admins to give someone a place outside the wait list since a place has to open in the right grade--it's hard to see how anyone would know of multiple times this is has happened when it has to be rare if it happens at all. [/quote]

It happens every year.  Agree with you that it’s “rare” in the sense of proportional to the overall population of HB and also APS.  And I don’t begrudge the families who need that outlet; for the kid we know, the move has been night and day.  My problem is that it’s happening at all.  [b]I do not support HB, sorry, I think it has no real pedagogy and should be discontinued. [/b] I also would never send my children there, as they are STEM and sports focused.  But, there are families lining up to get in.   It’s a public good and APS says it’s a strict lottery, blind, etc.   Then they go a let in admin transfers.  Any such transfers are deeply problematic because the whole point of a blind lottery waitlist is to simply move down the waitlist but instead discretion is afforded to APS staff. The entire point of the lottery was to remove staff discretion, as the discretion isn’t race or need or otherwise blind. [/quote]

If you don't have kids there, how do you know what the pedagogy is (which, by the way, focuses on self-directed learning)? How do you know the extent to which teachers use flipped classrooms, student-directed days, project-driven learning, inquiry-based learning, etc.? Or the extent to which the school as a whole supports and scaffolds self-management, choice, independence, and responsibility to facilitate these learning approaches? And the extent to which this differs from the comprehensive high schools? [/quote]

Well, sorry for you lady, but your beloved school isn’t a private school supported by the parents and alumna who believe in the pedagogy.   You school is PUBLIC paid for by all of residents of Arlington county and we all get a say—not just those special few who attend.  And, your school has done in my opinion a terrible job of convincing me—a long long time resident that it has a differential pedagogy.  Your dumb self directed BS make it sound like Montessori which is really self directed. HB is not self directed, is not Montessori, and should be shut down. [/quote]

sorry to tell you lady, but you're really not that important. my school does not have to convince YOU personally. [/quote]

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