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HB Woodlawn must either increase capacity by several  hundred students next year OR if there is objection and outrage, then it becomes a regular school next year and with their standard curriculum. The seats are needed. The school has them and there is not more time to fawn over that program like idiots.
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1) HB new building doesn’t have the capacity to increase by several hundred.

2) HB offers exactky the same- actually less due to the lower population- classes as any other APS middle or high school. It’s not the curriculum that is different. It’s the philosophy of how the school is run and the student-teacher relationship. I have a kid there and one at Wakefield. The Wakefield student has many more classes to choose from.[/quote]

The Heights building is very open air, they can find a way to expand the capacity. Maybe even rent nearby office suites which aren’t super vacant.

As for curriculum, exactly it is nothing special but HB boosters keep claiming they can’t grow or their special program will suffer. Get over that, and work with the same reality as everyone else. [/quote]

It will suffer because the teachers have to buy in to the whole thing. The reason people want to get their kids into HB, and the reason HB is like a private school, is because the model at HB is all about the kids. The teachers and administrators want to be at HB specifically, and want to have personal, long-term relationships with the kids, and see themselves as helping develop the students over the course of seven years from kids into college-ready almost-adults. You can't just snap your fingers and duplicate that somewhere else, or magically find 20 more teachers willing to buy into that kind of culture, and part of why it works is because every adult in the building knows every kid in the building. And the HB students make a lot of tradeoffs to have that, like not having a lot of the course options that they have at the bigger high schools, not having easy access to sports, having a pretty limited friend pool, etc. Its the same thing at ATS -- everyone who works at ATS buys into the model, and everyone who chooses to go to ATS buys into the model, so it works, so you can grow it over time but its hard to just duplicate. [/quote]

No but you can snap your fingers and get rid of it and next year just have a regular neighborhood school. Create a boundary and send 900 kids there. It really is just that easy. And if it's overcrowded a bit? Oh well, no biggie it happens. Get some trailers.

HB Woodlawn needs to go.  Montessori needs to go. Rich white N Arl parents don't like it?  Well good thing they are rich because they can afford private! Yeah for them. But sadly it might cut into their vacation budget and they won't be able to go to Europe every summer.  I will weep tears for them for sure. 
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