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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][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.  WL is overcrowded and being supersized, while HB students are capped 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]

WL accepts almost ALL IB applicants and has for years. [/quote]

if you apply to WL for IB from out of boundary you have to do the full IB program or if not you are sent back to your home school. Anyone zoned for WL can take just a few IB classes. Tell me how that's equitable. [/quote]

It's equitable because in-boundary W-L students have access to the full AP course of study as well. They should not be forced into taking IB. Back in the day, the W-L community agreed to IB only if the AP courses similarly expanded. The other two high schools were then supposed to come up with their unique programs to attract students: Wakefield has the Senior Project, and Yorktown has R.O.C.S.[/quote]

You're missing the point, perhaps intentionally. It's not equitable for the students who don't live in the WL zone. [/quote]

Then push for change: (1) perhaps allow IB transfers to take W-L's AP courses and not do IB if they change their minds (2) Create new programs that could be perceived as equitable at the other schools. (3) Or make W-L a "program" like H-B and Arlington Tech, but then there are issues with accreditation. Students would have to play VHSL sports at their home schools (Wakefield and Yorktown), and filling the W-L school campus with interested students might be difficult. (4) Or maybe an inherent inequity is just a part of an imperfect system. All the local school systems have inherent inequities. (5) Revised school boundaries are another solution to help with inequity. Or maybe make all the high schools lottery based regardless of any special program. (6) Or eliminate IB entirely.

Regarding the OP's questions, the R.O.C.S. program at Yorktown may be worth investigating. [/quote]

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