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I think this actually just brings us full circle. You confirm that the issue is the perception that parents are chasing elite schools when it’s incongruous. Yet, for years on this board I have seen and contributed to threads where parents who sought both schools have explained over and over their rationale, but there are apparently those who refuse to believe them and comment every single time that it doesn’t make sense. Hence my original comment to another PP not to waste their time trying to explain it yet again. If people want to cling to their perception, deliberately in the face of a contrary explanation, it lets me know that they were never really interested in the question at all. They just want to complain about it, regardless of what the truth is. [/quote]

The families I know who applied to both were all white families looking to get out of their South Arlington schools. It's not a big sample size, but it affects my perception.

On the tour of HB, back when you had to take one to apply, the guide had gone to ATS and said she/her family wanted her to go to "the best" school and that was ATS and HB. I don't think she came up with that perception on her own. I think that's what her parents were peddling.

(My kid didn't get into HB, and that was fine. Our neighborhood school worked out. But it pissed me off when ATS or HB parents complain about full classes or lack of something or other. There's a waiting list a mile long for each. If you're unhappy, leave.)[/quote]

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