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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We put four kids all the way through APS, two at HB and two at their neighborhood high school.  Our youngest graduated nearly a decade ago.  Irate parents made the same arguments that you all are making now -- it's not fair, they need to expand, blah blah blah.  Nothing ever changes.  The fact is, all of our kids got good educations, went to good colleges, and turned out fine.  I guarantee that, a decade from now, you are all going to laugh about how much time you wasted worrying about such trivial -- and, I have to say, snowflake -- stuff.  Take a deep breath . . .   [/quote]

Weird post, seeing as how you’re judging others for wanting the same snowflake option—HB—you wanted years ago.[/quote]

+1 but keep judging others if it makes you feel better. [/quote]

You're missing my point.  All I'm saying is that I had kids who applied to HB and didn't get in -- and they went on to the neighborhood high school and did just fine.  I didn't demand that the county expand the program or build a second HB.  HB is not a panacea, and Arlington's neighborhood schools are all first-rate.  You're lucky to have such "problems."[/quote]

[b]What you are completely missing, is that the neighborhood schools are not the same anymore, or will not be the same in 10 years from now, as they were when your kids went through.[/b][/quote]

How, exactly?  They offer the same classes that they always have -- if anything, they're more rigorous -- and the test scores are the same as they've always been.  I can't see how, by any quantifiable measure, they're not just as good as they've long been.  Sure, there's an overcrowding issue.  But one way or another they're figure it out.  And remember, when our kids went through all of the neighborhood high schools (and HB) were in buildings that were decades old and well past their useful lives.

The sky is not falling in Arlington, I assure you.[/quote]

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