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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meanwhile HB Woodlawn has seen zero growth since moving to the new building. They still plan for just around 80 kids per MS grade and around 115 per HS grade. The lottery only accepted 75 6th graders and 26 9th graders (bringing the total 9th grade class next year to just 107 since they currently have 81 8th graders and I’m sure at least one or two will decide to move to another school). They really need to increase their enrollment to 100 per MS grade as promised when plans for them to move to the new building were being discussed.  HS grades should each be at 125 at a minimum. They would still be a small program with these numbers.   [/quote]

HB is a perfect example of APS's fraud, waste and abuse of tax payer dollars.[/quote]

Just stop it. All those kids would be back in the three comprehensive high schools if HB was still on Vacation Lane (where they wanted to stay) and that building was a neighborhood middle school, as originally proposed when they decided not to sell the land. And building it taller to hold more kids would have been cost-prohibitive. There are no fields.

If you have somewhere to put 900 middle and high schoolers, by all means, let us know where to build that school. [/quote]

The fraud part is that it has shifted from being a program with a strong personality (right for some kids, not others, somewhat self selected) into being the golden ticket to escape the crowding.  I didn't mine HB when the other kids weren't getting short shrift.[/quote]

PP is also ignoring that HB was resource hoarding: the only option they recognize is retaining of the largest plots of land in APS portfolio OR a marquee $100M building.

They should have bought an existing office building and repurposed it for HB, and then had money left over for the 4th high school.

Also; HB refusal to increase the size of the program is criminal when all other schools are crushed. [/quote]

HB is not a person or entity with any power. All decisions affecting HB are made by the school board. If there is "resource hoarding" what you mean is you don't like how the APS school board is allocating the capital budget among school projects. Direct your complaints to the actual decisionmakers. [/quote]

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