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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look. HB should be bigger.[/quote]

It's expanding next year when they move to a new building. Sorry that's a year too late for Larla.

[quote]It's ridiculous to have a school admitting 75 people when the HB waitlist from a SINGLE elementary school can exceed 100.[/quote]

I have a hard time working up a lot of sympathy for people who can afford to live in the Discovery/Nottingham/Taylor boundaries. You made your choices.

[quote] It's not reasonable for us to be funding these exclusive programs that serve too small a number of kids (not special needs kids!).[/quote]

You are not paying one cent more than you would for the kids to attend any other school. (And don't start on the busing, because H-B doesn't have a pool and most kids don't play sports.)

[quote]Defenders claim the program is so special that it can't expand.  ATS makes the same ridiculous arguments about its weekly assemblies.  Spare us. [/quote]

It has expanded, as explained above. And will expand more, in its new building. ATS has also expanded significantly in recent years.

[quote]We get that you have the political clout to fight this (particularly some of the just-coincidentally admitted kids of parents who are super active in the Arlington Dems). [/quote]

The conspiracy theories are ridiculous, it was an open lottery. There are people who meet every conspirist's criteria (APS volunteer, ACDC member, sibling at HB) and their kid is far down the wait list.

[quote]But please don't think we're naive enough to buy your talking points. [/quote]

It's not propaganda, just stating (and restating) facts that people keep (apparently deliberately) ignoring to fit a self-pitying narrative. My kids were waitlisted too, both times we entered. But it drives me nuts when people fling around fake stories to drum up anger about things that aren't true. 
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