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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Baloney. People covet it because the school size is capped and it’s opt in so filters out ESL parents and checked out parents. [/quote]

What on earth are you talking about? There is a large ESL population at ATS. https://schoolquality.virginia.gov/schools/arlington-traditional#

Why do people on this board love to make assumptions about ATS when they have no idea what they are talking about?[/quote]

You can’t even be bother to think about your post can you?

Almost the ENTIRE cohort of ESL students (about 200) is about the same size of the VPI students who automatically are accepted  (35 per year)

Which means for the general ATS lottery, almost zero ESL are accepted, because they don’t know or understand the value of applying. VPI is free preschool, with outreach to that community. [/quote]

I dunno what you are talking about. Not all VPI a students are ESL students. My daughter’s friend is an ESL student but was never a VPI student. She entered in KG. They wouldn’t be qualified for VPI because they don’t meet the income limits. Are you assuming that every economically disadvantaged student speaks English as a second language or visa versa?[/quote]

“My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night”[/quote]

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