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Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget HB that there are no intensified classes offered. You keep talking about AP classes but fail to mention that your students are taking all basic classes with those. The students at Yorktown, Wakefield, and W&L are having to take these AP classes along with intensified classes to be competitive.

You are very fixated on a small number of students at one school and how, you perceive, they have a leg up on your student. And really, given that not all students at HBW are aiming to compete for top schools, it’s really even a small cohort you are obsessing about.

My guess is that you wanted your high achieving student to attend HBW but did not get a spot. If that is the case, I am very sorry about that. Personally, I wish that HBW would get rid of the middle school and expand the high school seats so that more students can see if HBW is the right school for them.

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I would be for HB as HS seats only, too. But I think “self governance” and “fostering independence” are ridiculous excuses for the fact that HB is just very, very small, and all the advantages (and some disadvantages) stem simply from that fact and not that the kids are allowed to run around Rosslyn on their lunch break.

The independence has nothing to do with having an open campus, most of them don't go further than the 7-11 and CVS next door. The difference is that they aren't monitored constantly by a bunch of vice principals and hall monitors and don't have to account for every minute of their day to an adult--they are accountable for getting their work done, not for being in a certain place at a certain time except for scheduled classes. They have to learn to manage free periods and free time, which is preparation for college. So yes, it's an advantage, and it also wouldn't work at a school with 3,000 kids, and it also wouldn't work at a school with a lot of kids who aren't super interested in being at school all day.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget HB that there are no intensified classes offered. You keep talking about AP classes but fail to mention that your students are taking all basic classes with those. The students at Yorktown, Wakefield, and W&L are having to take these AP classes along with intensified classes to be competitive.

People keep repeating this, but it is not accurate. HB does offer intensified math options in every grade. I wish people that don't actually know would stop repeating things that are not true.

And it is also worth noting that at least in middle school, HB's courses all move at an "intensified" pace because they have to compress the curriculum into a shorter amount of total class hours than the other schools, to allow for their extra electives, weekly town hall, etc.

This is a huge unfair advantage in my book.

I should add, as is the fact that all courses move at an "intensified" pace.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget HB that there are no intensified classes offered. You keep talking about AP classes but fail to mention that your students are taking all basic classes with those. The students at Yorktown, Wakefield, and W&L are having to take these AP classes along with intensified classes to be competitive.

You are very fixated on a small number of students at one school and how, you perceive, they have a leg up on your student. And really, given that not all students at HBW are aiming to compete for top schools, it’s really even a small cohort you are obsessing about.

My guess is that you wanted your high achieving student to attend HBW but did not get a spot. If that is the case, I am very sorry about that. Personally, I wish that HBW would get rid of the middle school and expand the high school seats so that more students can see if HBW is the right school for them.

+1

I would be for HB as HS seats only, too. But I think “self governance” and “fostering independence” are ridiculous excuses for the fact that HB is just very, very small, and all the advantages (and some disadvantages) stem simply from that fact and not that the kids are allowed to run around Rosslyn on their lunch break.

Anonymous wrote:This is my experience having one child HB, and one child at Washington and liberty. Washington and liberty is definitely more of a pressure cooker. My son picks up things quickly and is doing well at Washington and liberty but he definitely is stressed out and has a lot of homework. My daughter tries very hard but it’s not as academically gifted. She is at HB I can tell you she doesn’t have the level of homework that my son does. In addition, she has a free period every day that all HB students get and so she has an opportunity to do homework during that period. I’m not saying one is better than the other and I think for each of my kids are in the right school.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget HB that there are no intensified classes offered. You keep talking about AP classes but fail to mention that your students are taking all basic classes with those. The students at Yorktown, Wakefield, and W&L are having to take these AP classes along with intensified classes to be competitive.

People keep repeating this, but it is not accurate. HB does offer intensified math options in every grade. I wish people that don't actually know would stop repeating things that are not true.

And it is also worth noting that at least in middle school, HB's courses all move at an "intensified" pace because they have to compress the curriculum into a shorter amount of total class hours than the other schools, to allow for their extra electives, weekly town hall, etc.

This is a huge unfair advantage in my book.

Well, again you don't know what you're talking about. Look at it this way. The kids who take AP classes at HB have 1/5 less class time to learn all the material and prepare for the same exam. I guess you think that's somehow an advantage too?

One thing can be an advantage and a different thing be a disadvantage. Not a matter of not knowing what I'm talking about. Rather, knowing what is being talked about. Being able to take more electives is an advantage and has nothing to do with how much time there is to get ready for an AP exam. But you go ahead and keep clinging to the unfairness of the HB AP situation outweighing anything else or anyone else's opinions.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget HB that there are no intensified classes offered. You keep talking about AP classes but fail to mention that your students are taking all basic classes with those. The students at Yorktown, Wakefield, and W&L are having to take these AP classes along with intensified classes to be competitive.

You are very fixated on a small number of students at one school and how, you perceive, they have a leg up on your student. And really, given that not all students at HBW are aiming to compete for top schools, it’s really even a small cohort you are obsessing about.

My guess is that you wanted your high achieving student to attend HBW but did not get a spot. If that is the case, I am very sorry about that. Personally, I wish that HBW would get rid of the middle school and expand the high school seats so that more students can see if HBW is the right school for them.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget HB that there are no intensified classes offered. You keep talking about AP classes but fail to mention that your students are taking all basic classes with those. The students at Yorktown, Wakefield, and W&L are having to take these AP classes along with intensified classes to be competitive.

People keep repeating this, but it is not accurate. HB does offer intensified math options in every grade. I wish people that don't actually know would stop repeating things that are not true.

And it is also worth noting that at least in middle school, HB's courses all move at an "intensified" pace because they have to compress the curriculum into a shorter amount of total class hours than the other schools, to allow for their extra electives, weekly town hall, etc.

This is a huge unfair advantage in my book.

Well, again you don't know what you're talking about. Look at it this way. The kids who take AP classes at HB have 1/5 less class time to learn all the material and prepare for the same exam. I guess you think that's somehow an advantage too?

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Anonymous wrote:The time and energy that some of you have to devote to the absolute *minutiae* of your kids’ HS, and the minute theoretical impact that this thing or that may have on their college admissions process—and implicitly, their lives and worth as human beings?—is at once astounding, sad, and batsh&t insane.

Tell your kid you work hard, try new stuff, be kind. Eat dinner with them sometimes. The rest will take care of itself.

Yours is a white privilege argument. Not everyone has the accumulated generational wealth and extended family where a degree less of "success" or "wealth" can be mitigated. Not everyone can putz along in high school and college and gain easy entree in the professional fields that their parent, grandparent, or family friend are entrenched in. Not everyone has the comfort in knowing that they qualify for closer to 100% of the available seats at a given school/firm but other less desirables are gatekept by history or quotas and must fight with each other over a number of seats that is much fewer than 100%. White kids are allowed to mess up many times and call it growth through experience; others may not even get a second chance. How easy it is to gaslight others when you think you're punching down.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget HB that there are no intensified classes offered. You keep talking about AP classes but fail to mention that your students are taking all basic classes with those. The students at Yorktown, Wakefield, and W&L are having to take these AP classes along with intensified classes to be competitive.

People keep repeating this, but it is not accurate. HB does offer intensified math options in every grade. I wish people that don't actually know would stop repeating things that are not true.

And it is also worth noting that at least in middle school, HB's courses all move at an "intensified" pace because they have to compress the curriculum into a shorter amount of total class hours than the other schools, to allow for their extra electives, weekly town hall, etc.

This is a huge unfair advantage in my book.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget HB that there are no intensified classes offered. You keep talking about AP classes but fail to mention that your students are taking all basic classes with those. The students at Yorktown, Wakefield, and W&L are having to take these AP classes along with intensified classes to be competitive.

People keep repeating this, but it is not accurate. HB does offer intensified math options in every grade. I wish people that don't actually know would stop repeating things that are not true.

And it is also worth noting that at least in middle school, HB's courses all move at an "intensified" pace because they have to compress the curriculum into a shorter amount of total class hours than the other schools, to allow for their extra electives, weekly town hall, etc.

This is a huge unfair advantage in my book.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget HB that there are no intensified classes offered. You keep talking about AP classes but fail to mention that your students are taking all basic classes with those. The students at Yorktown, Wakefield, and W&L are having to take these AP classes along with intensified classes to be competitive.

People keep repeating this, but it is not accurate. HB does offer intensified math options in every grade. I wish people that don't actually know would stop repeating things that are not true.

And it is also worth noting that at least in middle school, HB's courses all move at an "intensified" pace because they have to compress the curriculum into a shorter amount of total class hours than the other schools, to allow for their extra electives, weekly town hall, etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget HB that there are no intensified classes offered. You keep talking about AP classes but fail to mention that your students are taking all basic classes with those. The students at Yorktown, Wakefield, and W&L are having to take these AP classes along with intensified classes to be competitive.

People keep repeating this, but it is not accurate. HB does offer intensified math options in every grade. I wish people that don't actually know would stop repeating things that are not true.

And it is also worth noting that at least in middle school, HB's courses all move at an "intensified" pace because they have to compress the curriculum into a shorter amount of total class hours than the other schools, to allow for their extra electives, weekly town hall, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget HB that there are no intensified classes offered. You keep talking about AP classes but fail to mention that your students are taking all basic classes with those. The students at Yorktown, Wakefield, and W&L are having to take these AP classes along with intensified classes to be competitive.

Anonymous wrote:Are you a student or a parent? This seems like faulty logic a kid would latch on to.