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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wrong argument. 
All this tit for tat about admission is beside the point.

We are paying for a TINY PRIVATE SCHOOL that can’t possibly accommodate the number of students interested.

That’s the only issue that matters. We can’t afford it. We don’t have space for it. It’s not equitable.
The end.[/quote]

You sound like one of the people who complains how TJ is unfair to other Fairfax County schools.  You really expect counties to give up renowned schools because you think they're "unfair"?[/quote]

Not sure TJ is a remotely good comparison. Fairfax County has more teachers and staff in their schools than Arlington has students. Think about that for a second. It's educating nearly 190,000 kids in 200 schools. Just because it works for Fairfax doesn't mean that model is applicable to the smallest county in the DMV.[/quote]

DP. Do you have a substantive response to pp’s point, or is this the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling, “I CANT HEAR YOU!” because you don’t like what the person is saying?[/quote]

DP. TJ is not a good comparison because it's a test-in school. Kids who get in have earned it with higher scores. I, for one, can better accept that model because it's serving a particular type of student with a particular curriculum that not every child could be successful with. If HB is for a particular type of student, as I believe it was created to be, there should be some sort of application other than lottery. If it's just become so successful because of its smaller size and lower student/teacher ratio and its culture, then maybe we should build a dozen HB's instead of a 4th mega high school. [/quote]

If anything, I think this argument cuts against TJ and in favor of HB. Hard work alone won't get you into TJ; if you don't have the academic aptitude, it doesn't matter how hard you work, you have literally zero chance of getting into TJ. Thus, only a small portion of FCPS students realistically have anything resembling a viable opportunity to apply for TJ. HB doesn't discriminate based on academic aptitude, anyone can apply and have a chance of being admitted.

As for having multiple HBs, the SB has looked at that option (and for ATS as well). The feedback they received was that people would still want to go to the original because they couldn't be assured that the copy would end up being as good, so it wouldn't necessarily alleviate the situation of one school being considered "the" HB that everyone competed for and the other one being the "lesser" HB some people settled for. Plus, since there are some inefficiencies associated with the smaller size of that program, creating multiple HB schools would increase needed school funding significantly.[/quote]

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