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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If any of you are so certain that students are being admitted to HB in violation of policy, file a lawsuit. Get it out in the open so that real change can happen. All of this anonymous rumor and speculation about this poster or that poster knowing a kid who got in even though the poster isn't aware of any special need or other consideration their neighbor might have chosen not to share doesn't accomplish anything and is a waste of time, so put up or shut up. If you have actual knowledge of fraud, blow the whistle so something can be done. If you don't have actual knowledge and are just speculating, stop wasting everyone's time that could be better spent on real issues.[/quote]

I agree, but there is no amount of appropriate transparency that will satisfy some people. My father was a high school principal in another state. He said that one of the toughest parts of the job was dealing with disciplinary issues because he had to safeguard individual students' privacy and couldn't share all the details that went into making decisions. The worst gossips were other parents, who came up with all sorts of conspiracy theories about kids and would spread them without any evidence. He couldn't go around contradicting them without violating the kids' privacy. This seems like the same thing to me-- [b]a bunch of people who manufacture scenarios in their heads to explain something they don't know enough about, and can't know enough about.[/b] [/quote]

Or to lash out at and punish people who got to have something they didn't. If someone else's kid got a spot and yours didn't, some people who feel entitled to everything feel much better speculating that it must be because the other kid's parents and the school system are corrupt rather than acknowledging they just didn't get the luck of the draw this time.[/quote]

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