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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not so much sour grapes as it is a dose of reality. Of course HB is part of the problem. If it's inherently so awesome and such as asset, why not allow in 100 more kids per class. Duh, it's because increasing its size would kill the reason it's special. And what I'm saying is that it's outrageous that the lucky few get to have this for their kids when my kids don't get it. And I'm paying for it, dearly! Insult to injury. [/quote]

So if your kids got it would you still push to get rid of the program?

What are you "paying"? The new building? That was intended for the new middle school. Blame the Taylor families who pushed H-B out and forced them too take that building instead. [/quote]

It costs $20k per kid to educate a child in APS. You're right I want HB for my kid! I'd hope I'd be gracious and want to share with everyone if my kid won the  golden ticket. But we'll never know because we didn't win. I'm not bashing the parents of kids who are lucky. I'm bashing the government that creates this system where some kids are more equal than others. Put more simply, if HB had similar overcrowding to Swanson, I wouldn't feel outraged at all that we didn't win the lottery. Let's get HB as overcrowded as everyone else![/quote]

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Meh - life's not fair. Even my kids get that. They know some friends who got in and most who didn't, but they don't have hard feelings about it.

Why are you so stuck on bashing H-B instead of coming up with a REAL solution for all of the kids? So you add a chunk of kids to H-B, that is still NOT going to solve the problem at all. We will still have overcrowded schools.

You are taking away from the message that we need a 4th comprehensive HS - something that is currently not a lock at all. Do you really want the EdCenter option? If you are actually concerned about the issue (overcrowding) and it's not just sour grapes, then focus on the real solution.

Closing HB is part of the solution. HB parents should be focused on the solution too, instead of living in their private school bubble.

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