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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]You would be absolutely crazy not to take the spot.  HB is a  private school run by APS.  [/quote]

+1.  It's unethical that APS pours so many resources into this school.  And I would take the spot in a heartbeat.[/quote]

This. [/quote]

This what? Still have not heard anyone explain what the "many resources" are. [/quote]

Well to start they spent over $100M for a building for an option school serving a minuscule population compared to the other high schools.  Option schools be the last programs to get a new school. [/quote]

Do you really not know the history or are you intentionally misstating? HB was in a very old building and was just fine there. APS was going to build a new middle school in Rosslyn. But the parents protested loudly that the neighborhood middle school should get the better location in a residential area, which is where HB was. So they kicked HB to the less desirable location in Rosslyn.

If you don’t like the result go find those parents who pushed this, it’s not HBs fault.

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This is so off topic but this was an aggressive post, so I'll reply.  It's not HB's fault.  It's not those parents's fault (ridiculous as the arguments were).  I don't agree with decision to cater to the loudest complainers in this instance.   I even clarified some of this in a later  post, and nowhere did I disparage the students or families of HB.  We need seats in Rosslyn.  HB is a small option school. I disagree with this expensive and short-sighted choice but it wasn't made by parents or students. Why is this comment getting under so many people's skin?[/quote]

New poster and I'll bite.  This is revisionist in some respects - the resources aren't just about the bloated cost of the building.  HB families fought hard to stay where they were, regardless of whether the space was needed in that area for a comprehensive middle school. True.  What they fought AGAINST was taking on more students (regardless of location) to do even a bit more to ease the overcrowding at the other schools.  THAT is where they are taking resources.  Yorktown's freshmen class has roughly 500 kids.  W-L has 700.  I can't find Wakefield but it's in that range.  By contrast, HB has 130.  Bump it to 250 - take additional kids out of the other schools.

And, HB kids get to go back and take up space and resources at those schools if they want.  Sports teams, [b]classes[/b], etc.  That's the really interesting thing about HB and ArlTech.  If kids had to be all-in, and couldn't access resources at the other high schools, what would it do to enrollment?

So, YES, HB is a net negative on the system despite all the cries of the parents.  APS staff and board kowtow to this special interest group and that's what angers parents.  [/quote]
HB students cannot take classes at their base school.[/quote]

My kid does nothing connected to their home school.  They have no interest in sports so HB is a good fit, and we don't take up a space at a school that actually has the fields, pools, and other facilities to support those extracurriculars, many of which have become such important college hooks in recent years.  I think some HB kids do manage to do a home school sport but it's unusual.  If we were at our home school, that would be another seat taken there that would not actually be using any of those facilities, except maybe for gym.  [/quote]

and they can't do marching band at their home school, even if they want to, although they can do sports

kids give up a lot of things to go to HB, there are definite trade-offs [/quote]

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