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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two of my kids graduated from HB over 15 years ago.  This same drivel was written then as it is now.  No reason to be so damned jealous.  Our kids at Yorktown got just as good an education.  [/quote]

BS. 15 years ago the other high schools were not overcrowded anything like now nor as constrained by resources as the school board no longer cares about academics excellence as a goal for the system. [/quote]

My HB kid graduated in the last 5 years and didn't get great skills in math and a couple of the hard sciences. My other kids went to WL, IB and got a better education, imo. I blame the HB education on the fact that you have fewer teachers. [/quote]

This is interesting. If you make anything a scarce resource, though (like ATS and HB Woodlaw are) people will covet it just because it’s scarce. So adding more seats to schools that are just like ATS and Woodlawn would not only add seats but would make these schools less rare. Then the people who really want what they are offering will apply rather than people going just because they are a limited resource. [/quote]

If you add more schools like this, demand will fall. Many people want them because they’re “special.”’ [/quote]

You sound like a full-on crazy person. Like there are people applying to these schools solely because they have wait lists, and if the wait lists went away they would not apply. (That is my literal reading of your comment.)

There is no point in engaging with ATS and HB haters, nothing anyone says is going to get you to change your mind.

Why not spend some energy on Montessori or something for a while? They actually do get more funding per kid, or at least they used to. [/quote]

I agree PP. These people sound unhinged. Literally every post on this group that mentions ATS or HB Woodlawn leads to a barrage of posts in response talking about how terrible the students are, the parents are, the schools are…. I wonder who these petty, childish parents are in real life [/quote]

These aren’t normal people. My neighbors kids go to ATS. They seem happy with the school and their children seem to be enjoying it. We never applied because I see no reason to. We are happy with our neighborhood school and I don’t begrudge our neighbors for choosing it over our neighborhood school. I do think kids lose out by not being in their neighborhood school but to each their own! Plus I’m sure ATS and option schools in general relieve at least some of the crowding in neighborhood schools. The school seems to be popular with nonwhite families and immigrants. Perhaps they are more conservative so the “traditional” nature of the school attracts them? [/quote]

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