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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's up with all the jealousy and anger against HB?  From what I see, there's basically no difference between HB, Yorktown, and W-L on test scores.  HB's are slightly higher, maybe, but that's probably because it's a choice school and only more actively involved parents/kid are throwing in applications.

If the curriculum is the same (which it is) and the test scores are the same (which they are) then the educations are the same.  You're already getting at your neighborhood schools what you're getting at HB.

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So why not make it a HS only and make better use of facility space and have less crowded high schools if it’s nothing special?  Literally the point of this thread. [/quote]

Why is it necessarily "better use" of the space to have more high schoolers instead of middle schoolers?  Middle school is a unique age group with their own needs during a developmentally turbulent period - why shouldn't they get to have access to the program?  Every argument for why HS students would choose HB also applies to MS students.[/quote]

It’s a better use because we have plenty of middle school seats elsewhere. But I know you are being willfully ignorant [/quote]

Some of the middle schools are also overcrowded.[/quote]

Why don’t you read the first post of this thread with latest monthly numbers before offering up such an ignorant defense. Sure they can rebalance middle schools at same time, but middle schools in Arlington have plenty of capacity. [/quote]

PS another example of willful ignorance. We literally posted the facts. Do you have a personality disorder?[/quote]

Why are you so angry?

Gunston is over capacity.[/quote]

Its just frustrating to deal with people who claim to want to influence policy that affects all of our students, yet seems incapable to bother to do arithmetic before speaking nonsense.

Middle School Enrollment/Capacity (Excess seats)
WM 788/997 (219)
SW 888/948  (60)
DH 866/1000  (134)
GN 1099/992  (-107)
KM 947/1045  (98)
TJ 861/1086  (225)

Excess MS Capacity: 619

Gunderson over crowding: 107

The excess capacity calculation takes Gunderson's overcrowding into account, thus we have ample margin to redo MS boundaries to relieve Gunderson (or simply move Immersion elsewhere, that might do it too), and we STILL have excess 600 seats in MS, which can absorb ALL of the HBW MS students, and thus free up about 300 seats for high school. Bonus, more students get to benefit from HBW philosophy, if it is so special.[/quote]

I don't know why you think people should take your ideas seriously when you don't even know the name of the MS in question.  It makes you seem not very familiar with the school system.[/quote]

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