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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][quote=Anonymous]HB Woodlawn may be small, sure, but it’s pretty intense academically and really isn’t a place for kids with special needs.  I think she’d be better off in one of the neighborhood schools, probably Wakefield.  [/quote]

Haha no, it follows the same curriculum as the rest of APS, with similar  academic pathways. Just in a not overcrowded school in a gorgeous building [/quote]

Two of my kids went to HB.  I believe I know more about the school than you do.  [/quote]

So a random lottery school somehow ends up academic more advanced without any admission criteria?  You are full of BS. It’s not a magnet, it’s lottery ticket. [/quote]

Are you for real?

Yes, the academic profile of the average HB student is higher than the average at any of the neighborhood high schools, not because it’s a magnet school with admissions criteria, but because it tends to attract higher achievers as lottery applicants.  It’s not like every 5th grader in the county applies to HB; the large majority don’t, and I suspect some families have never even heard of it.

It’s not that complicated, idiot. 
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It's not only the kids, it's the schedule.  Kids take I think one more class than regular middle schools, so they only have each class four days instead of five. So they have less time to get through the same curriculum, which means the pace is quicker.[/quote]

Oh, wow I’m going to print this and send to school board since the inequity that is HBW is just yawning wider.  [b]WL is overcrowded and being supersized, while HB students are capped[/b] in size with a academic enrichment. Holy absolute F.  [/quote]

do you also think it's inequitable that WL and TJ students can access IB curriculum but the rest of the county does not? or do you just hate HB? [/quote]

W-L is not overcrowded. Its size is similar to other Northern VA high schools. And the public process for took place over a number of years. Surrounding neighborhoods wanted to stay in the walkable W-L zone (even as many others were shifted from W-L to Yorktown). W-L also has a county-wide IB program. The solution after a few years of discussions and a public process was to expand the school into the former Ed Center, which would also allow the school to get rid of the trailers, have access to another full size athletic field, and keep most of it's walk zone intact. Wakefield is the only technically overcrowded high school right now. [/quote]

The key is “technically over crowded”. Other NOVA high schools on much more acreage, have more field space and larger cafeteria etc.  basically by bolting on 600 seats, XL WL won’t be “over capacity” for a while. But anyways the overcrowding is about the upcoming grades, not currently and especially because of pandemic.

And Fairfax schools are mostly around 2500, WL will be getting to 2900 like Chantilly, on a plot about twice it’s size[/quote]

The Quincy Park fields across the street from W-L are also APS property and was acquired decades ago for W-L student use. Students use those fields (and the adjacent tennis courts) for PE and other uses throughout the school day. The overall site is plenty large for the size of W-L and comparable with those in FCPS. Much larger schools on smaller urban sites like the famous Stuyvesant HS in NY have about 3500 students. [/quote]

Trying to draw comparisons to an elite magnet school is grasping PP.

So they have a cafeteria on Quincy park?  Get real. They undersized the building and it’s on a small lot and don’t pretend it’s the same as an exurban campus.

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