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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, the point isn't that HB is causing the problem. The problem is that HB winners don't have to live with the problems the rest of us do... overcrowding. Thats not fair. [/quote]

They are adding 100 kids to HB, which increases their student population by 10 percent, which is a lot (not as much as the other schools, but not nothing, either). And they have kids in trailers, their kids share lockers, etc.  [/quote]

Considering the absolute numbers of students who are being squeezed into Wakefield, Yorktown, and W-L, it's close enough to nothing to make no difference.

I love the idea of HB, but it has become a luxury we can't afford. [/quote]

That really is it then. Ten years ago we either chose to be in the lottery or didn't.  We made a choice based on the philosophy of the school. We didn't worry about us and them.  Now it is all about crowding, and HB really does look like a luxury good paid for by all of us.   Not sure about the solution, but once "golden ticket" is an applicable metaphor, there's a problem.
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