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Anonymous wrote:A kid who's a little quirky would do well at HB.

The school does a great job making school fun. Not every day of course as there are classes, tests, homework, etc. But there are fun traditions interspersed throughout the year.

The admins are very, very good. Supportive of students and staff.

My kid isn't quirky at all -- been there since 6th grade and loves it. You obviously don't have a student at HB.

PP here. This is a weird response. I do have a kid at HB. I said that a kid who is quirky would do well at HB. That has been our experience.

That doesn't mean non-quirky kids would not do well there either.

Simmer down.

NP - I wish those with non-quirky kids would take their kids back to their home schools. HB has lost its luster and its original point of being when it comes to being the place for quirky kids. HB is still a good school but it's not the same student population you saw in the 90s or even early 2000s, and that's a shame. It's no wonder people get pissed about HB - people started putting their kids in the lottery to escape the overcrowding.

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Anonymous wrote:A kid who's a little quirky would do well at HB.

The school does a great job making school fun. Not every day of course as there are classes, tests, homework, etc. But there are fun traditions interspersed throughout the year.

The admins are very, very good. Supportive of students and staff.

My kid isn't quirky at all -- been there since 6th grade and loves it. You obviously don't have a student at HB.

PP here. This is a weird response. I do have a kid at HB. I said that a kid who is quirky would do well at HB. That has been our experience.

That doesn't mean non-quirky kids would not do well there either.

Simmer down.

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Anonymous wrote:A kid who's a little quirky would do well at HB.

The school does a great job making school fun. Not every day of course as there are classes, tests, homework, etc. But there are fun traditions interspersed throughout the year.

The admins are very, very good. Supportive of students and staff.

My kid isn't quirky at all -- been there since 6th grade and loves it. You obviously don't have a student at HB.

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Anonymous wrote:We have not had any parking issues. Plenty of metered parking in the area and plenty of open spaces in the two parking garages they provide validation for. For quick pick ups/drop offs during the day for appointments, there are a few spots right out front for free 15 minute parking. My child isn’t at driving age yet but I don’t believe they provide parking passes for high school students who may want to drive to school their senior year.

Oh goody, another way to keep away people with less money from the school, who can't float parking fees just to pick up from afterschool activities.

Anonymous wrote:A kid who's a little quirky would do well at HB.

The school does a great job making school fun. Not every day of course as there are classes, tests, homework, etc. But there are fun traditions interspersed throughout the year.

The admins are very, very good. Supportive of students and staff.

Anonymous wrote:has anyone seen any waitlist movement now that the acceptance date has passed?

Anonymous wrote:I have a kid at HB but I stopped paying attention to this thread because there are random annoyed people in here who want to argue about the existence of the program.

My kid likes the school. If you get in I strongly suggest going on the tour and maybe talking to parents of current kids. Our year started a facebook group to talk about issues specific to our kids and their grade as they come up, also met up at parks over the summer before 6th grade started.

I guess be aware that there will be people like one of the PPs above who are just mad at you and at the school generally even though they don't seem to have any real understanding of the school or the related APS issues. In the case above with the PP who wants to turn the HB building into a new high school, note that PP did apply to HB for his/her kid but didn't get in, and now PP would like to dismantle the school essentially for parts, so *shrug* it's helpful to have the axe grinding context for perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it me, or does it seem like one of the posters is obsessed with dismantling everything at HB, even if it wouldn’t actually be affordable, sensible, or in any way mitigate overcrowding at other schools?

Please. I did the math for turning HB into high school only, I proved how it will help.

HB needs to do it’s part for the community. I know you all “got yours, F the rest of you” but we need to be creative because SH has dragged 4th high school out.

Moving to office building is hardly dismantling.

So why not just put kids from W-L or YHS or whatever in that high rise? Why bring HB into it at all? You do in fact want to dismantle HB because your kid didn’t get in (as you admitted in another thread) and now you are mad and if your kid can’t have it, no one can. Which makes you a giant hypocrite because you would have taken that slot in a heartbeat. You don’t care about APS or its students. You’re just bitter and if you can’t have it, you don’t want anyone else to have it.

People like you are actually why we don’t have a 4th high school. The best shot we had at it was shot down by parents who literally argued that we couldn’t have a 4th high school with a swimming pool it wouldn’t be fair, and if APS couldn’t offer equal facilities in all schools the only fair solution was for all kids to suffer equally. I was at a school board meeting where this was actually argued and supported by a large group of parents.

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People who can afford to live in the WL zone can afford to live elsewhere and send their kids to another high school (ahem, Wakefield) if they want. They made choices with their money about where to live and what schools to send their kids to. Don't feel sorry that they paid so much to send their kids to crowded schools, it's not like we didn't see this coming the ENTIRE TIME their kids were in school.

Sure, everyone has seen it coming – but it’s also not unreasonable to expect that the school board would have actually done something about it in all this time. Like use some of that insane $$$$ spent to build the new HBW building on a new HS.

They effectively spent it on a new middle school (moved HB and added Hamm)

Why didn’t they just vacant office space for HB students? They are free to leave campus even in middle school, it’s a focus on independence and self directed study, so some converted office spaces with lots of white boards for Socratic discussions seems right up the alley, and would have cost almost nothing.

What are you talking about with Socratic discussions? HB kids take all the same classes as other APS kids (fewer choices, if anything) and have the same graduation requirements. The independence and self directed study has to do with being responsible for how they use their free periods and deciding how to spend the PTA budget--they aren't teaching themselves chemistry and APUSH.

Even better, they converted offices of Ed center to classrooms, so any office should be able to converted similarly and since their classes are just like the other high school students, let them loose in a high rise and turn Heights into a normal high school where kids cant come and go.

Presumably the kids in classrooms at the Ed Center will be using the non-classroom spaces in the main W-L building for all of those activities....theater, gym, library, band room, cafeteria..... How would that work with a standalone office building?

HB students can go off campus for lunch, and most office buildings have a cafe that could be converted to school use, they don't have a theater now just a blackbox, it would be easy to build a library or simply request books from other schools to be sent to HB like they do now, and band room can either be done at home campus, and they can then participate in marching band and such as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it me, or does it seem like one of the posters is obsessed with dismantling everything at HB, even if it wouldn’t actually be affordable, sensible, or in any way mitigate overcrowding at other schools?

Please. I did the math for turning HB into high school only, I proved how it will help.

HB needs to do it’s part for the community. I know you all “got yours, F the rest of you” but we need to be creative because SH has dragged 4th high school out.

Moving to office building is hardly dismantling.