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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay is this the issue?: HB isn’t taking more resources per student (not talking about the building here), but rather they are taking advantage of their smaller student body, because that small of a student body doesn’t need counselors, so in turn they can have smaller class sizes? [/quote]

No. Say a high school with 700 students is entitled, per the planning factors, to two counselors because the ratio is 1 counselor per 500 secondary students. HB is a program with the flexibility to allocate those positions to teaching instead of counseling. So instead of having 28 teachers for 700 students (1 per 25 students) they can hire 30 teachers, each of whom is the counselor for 20 students (because the admins and others also do counseling) and now the student-teacher ratio is 23 instead of 25. The students have lower teacher ratios, plus they have a counselor they meet with one period a week in a small group (and available other times) instead of being one of 500 assigned to that counselor. This is ACADEMIC/college counseling, not mental health.[/quote]

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