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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There will be plenty of seats for high school with the annex to WL and the plans for the Career Center site. [/quote]

T[b]he Superintendent has publically stated that WL will be to large to manage, he presented that in slides to the school board this month.[/b]

So it would make more sense to more evenly distribute high school students into our available campuses.

Just because your snowflake won the lottery doesn't mean you can F it to the rest of APS.[/quote]

I looked at those slides and it's so nice how conveniently HB Woodlawn is never even mentioned as an option for more students. [/quote]

Yep.

I was talking with an HB parent several years ago when they were building the new school and were going to have to increase each grade by 10 students.  The parent didn't agree with that policy because enlarging the program (by ten kids in each grade x 7 = 70 kids total) would change the nature of the program - too large for the program to "work" because the program is heavily dependent on the "community" aspect.  Apparently, the HB mindset is that you can know 60 other classmates but not 70.  I was one in a class of 330.  I may not have known every classmate personally and well; but I could name almost every single one of them.

I happen to agree that a fundamental aspect of the program is providing a small learning environment.  However, especially when so many other schools were/are so overcrowded, I think the option programs should do their part; and adding a few hundred students and feeling a little bit of the crowdedness students at the other schools are experiencing is not going to ruin the HB program in the least.  ATS used to be the same way.  They essentially took on more responsibility by adding more preschool classes, though.[/quote]

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