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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New Poster with a couple points:
- At the risk of outing myself, I personally spoke out publicly to increase the size of the HB program to align with percent overcrowding of APS. I know some HB people didn’t like it. I now don’t believe in the conspiracy theory on lottery, because my kid got in. Given what an awful situation the SB has created, we decided to enter the lottery. Believe me, I am not some well-connected person in that commmunkty - quite the opposite. At least 2 of the other kids accepted at our school have zero engagement in APS. The lottery was centrally run this year.

- On use of Wilson for a neighborhood school... doesn’t anyone remember how nasty people from Taylor and Glebe got when that idea was proposed a few years ago? Love that idea, but where were you guys a few years ago?  If we hadn’t let the Westover bullies prevail, we could have put HB at Reed (very clear now that we have too many elementaries planned in that quadrant now and I can’t wait to see them advocate to optionize Tuckahoe); [b]opened a neighborhood high school in Rosslyn[/b] (although the North haters would have screamed bloody murder) and still have Stratford as a neighborhood school.[/quote]

I agree that HB should be bigger - and perhaps with the stupid design of the building they can relocate Stratford now and make it bigger -- but I remember the huge debate about what to do with the Wilson site.  [b]That is a small plot of land -- HB fought going there because it is so small and they didn't think they could fit a field there.[/b]  IMO, it made sense as a location for a smaller program.  You can't cram a full HS or a 1300 seat middle school there without creating a school that offers much less in facilities than any other regular MS/HS in the county.  [/quote]

Exactly. The incredibly acrid debate over putting a new school there wasn't that long ago and no one wanted their kids to go to that land because it's more urban and because it's such a small plot that there will be no fields and hardly any outdoor space. If they had proposed building a new high school there parents would have been up in arms because the kids zoned for that school wouldn't have and sports fields and would be in a high rise. HB can be bigger-- fine, but let's not pretend that building a new comprehensive high school would have ever happened on that site. [b]There is no great site for a comprehensive high school [/b]in a good location. That's part of the problem. [/quote]

But there is. You are correct that it's not considered to be in a "good location" however. [/quote]

Where? (And by good location I only meant a place where people aren't already complaining about the traffic patterns.)[/quote]

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