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[quote=Anonymous]When dinosaurs ruled the earth, kids got into H-B on a first-come first serve basis, so parents with means would literally camp out in front of the school on admissions day to get a slot.  Seeing the obvious unfairness of it all, a county-wide lottery was instituted.  When the county-wide lottery proved to skew the school too white and privileged (because only the white and privileged were informed enough to know of the program), the school began weighing minority applicants at up to nine times that of white applicants to increase diversity.  White parents sued, and that system was thrown out.  At that point, the lottery assigned a certain number of slots to each elementary school in the hope that more minority applicants would be captured.

The bottom line:  HB and APS have been working literally for generations to improve HB's diversity.  But it's always been the way that the privileged are more likely to be aware of and search out educational alternatives for their kids.

And privileged parents of denied kids have been complaining for just as long.  It's not the underprivileged who are complaining about HB's existence.  Trust me.  [/quote]

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