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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We put four kids all the way through APS, two at HB and two at their neighborhood high school.  Our youngest graduated nearly a decade ago.  Irate parents made the same arguments that you all are making now -- it's not fair, they need to expand, blah blah blah.  Nothing ever changes.  The fact is, all of our kids got good educations, went to good colleges, and turned out fine.  I guarantee that, a decade from now, you are all going to laugh about how much time you wasted worrying about such trivial -- and, I have to say, snowflake -- stuff.  Take a deep breath . . .   [/quote]

Weird post, seeing as how you’re judging others for wanting the same snowflake option—HB—you wanted years ago.[/quote]

+1 but keep judging others if it makes you feel better. [/quote]

You're missing my point.  All I'm saying is that I had kids who applied to HB and didn't get in -- and they went on to the neighborhood high school and did just fine.  I didn't demand that the county expand the program or build a second HB.  HB is not a panacea, and Arlington's neighborhood schools are all first-rate.  You're lucky to have such "problems."[/quote]

[b]What you are completely missing, is that the neighborhood schools are not the same anymore, or will not be the same in 10 years from now, as they were when your kids went through.[/b][/quote]

How, exactly?  They offer the same classes that they always have -- if anything, they're more rigorous -- and the test scores are the same as they've always been.  I can't see how, by any quantifiable measure, they're not just as good as they've long been.  Sure, there's an overcrowding issue.  But one way or another they're figure it out.  And remember, when our kids went through all of the neighborhood high schools (and HB) were in buildings that were decades old and well past their useful lives.

The sky is not falling in Arlington, I assure you.[/quote]

[b]Older, but functional, buildings with far fewer students. Exactly which part of this do you not comprehend?[/b] [/quote]

Which part don't YOU comprehend?  I acknowledged that there are overcrowding issues.  That happens in APS from time to time.  Happened when we were there.  Functional buildings?  W-L was 70 years old, falling apart, and overcrowded in our era.  Yorktown was a converted elementary school from the 1940s and was also overcrowded, and don't get me started on Wakefield,  What, do you think when these bulldings were replaced they weren't replaced with bigger and more space efficient buildings?

And what about test scores, class offerings, and college acceptances.  I see you have no comeback to any of that.

Again, by any quantifiable measure the system is just as good now as it was then.  White people problems . . .

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If you want to play APS historian, Yorktown used to be considered one of the three most elite publics in the region, along with Walt Whitman and Langley. That’s far from the case today.  It doesn’t even crack the top 10.[/quote]

Up until the early 70s the top two DC area public schools were B-CC and W-L. It was like that for decades. Times change, but all these schools are still good. [/quote]

I agree with this.  Demographics changed, and the challenges are greater.  But the fundamentals are still very strong, and these schools are all excellent.  I guarantee you, for example, that UVA isn't isn't favoring Langley kids over Yorktown or W-L kids.  [/quote]

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