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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just noting that you haven't once acknowledged the clear errors you have made in spreading disinformation in this post:  HB's lower class sizes are subsidized through cutting non-teaching staff so it doesn't cost more; HB is not inflating the percentage of special needs kids it provides services to (which is comparatively high) by counting non-disabled, gifted kids as special needs (wut that was cray), etc.  The list is probably longer but my patience is worn out.

There is one particular parent who applied to HB for their kid but didn't get in and has now pretty much made a personal vow to destroy HB in manner of comic book villain, fyi.[/quote]

You are ADORBS.

You can have less aggregate counseling services because your filtered student population NEEDS less counseling.  There are less labor hours spent on counseling at HB -- that's how you get away with having teachers and principals do it in a like planning period.  That is a cost that you are implicitly sending back to neighborhood schools -- the counseling of that in need population that you conveniently don't accept.

The population of LD children at HB is mostly ADHD IEP granted with engaged parents; APS rarely assigns IEP without parental request because the incentives are not aligned (it would mean more work for them), and those the broader neighborhood schools have all the parents who are too busy/stressed/checked out to navigate the HB process.

I especially love how you skirt the issue that your demographics most match lilly white Yorktown despite being a county wide program -- but again that reflects the reality of who can accommodate the logistics of applying and attending the "private school on public dime".

I honestly wouldn't care if you just accepted you are getting special treatment, and not act like HB has many downsides.[/quote]

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