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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)

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:We threw our DC’s name in the hat and she was selected, although she doesn’t want to leave her friends.
Anyone with experience at Hamm vs HB?

HB parent here. I strongly recommend having your child attend the visit day at HB. A lot of kids go into it thinking they don't want to leave their friends at other schools, but fall in love with HB once they've spent a full day there.

NP. If more parents would just accept their kids' desire to stay with friends, or heed their kids' lack of concern about their neighborhood school, HB would be available to more kids who actually need or would significantly benefit from the program v. their neighborhood school. This is why the lottery system needs to change. If we're going to spend all that money on special programs, they should be making every effort to ensure those programs are being accessed by the students who would most benefit from them.

How would they determine that? Tests, applications? Teachers' recommendations are subjective, as are parents'. I don't think you would narrow down the applicant pool that much, so how do you choose if not lottery?

HB should be high school only

No IB no AP, with more independent study and fluid education as it was designed to be.

That will filter out the “private school on public dime” people to students who actually want and need that model.

No, middle schoolers should have access, too.

We are short high school seats but have plenty of middle school seats.

There was a lengthy thread on this a while ago... I think it showed that we are not short high school seats when you factor in the WL additional seats.

Not really, and it’s pretty poor form to stuff WL to 3000 while HB students lounge around in their award winning building.

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.

Yes, the 6th grade waitlist is elementary specific for the entire 6th grade year.

Question about the waitlist that was generated as part of last week’s lottery. If a child attends, say, Glebe Elementary and is high on that waitlist, does the child retain that Glebe-specific slot on the waitlist until the next lottery is held in Feb 2023?

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Anonymous wrote:There will be plenty of seats for high school with the annex to WL and the plans for the Career Center site.

The Superintendent has publically stated that WL will be to large to manage, he presented that in slides to the school board this month.

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.

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

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.

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Anonymous wrote:There will be plenty of seats for high school with the annex to WL and the plans for the Career Center site.

The Superintendent has publically stated that WL will be to large to manage, he presented that in slides to the school board this month.

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.

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

Anonymous wrote:Just because your snowflake won the lottery doesn't mean you can F it to the rest of APS.

You do realize that the majority of us with a kid at HB also have kids at other APS schools? 🙄

Anonymous wrote:There will be plenty of seats for high school with the annex to WL and the plans for the Career Center site.

The Superintendent has publically stated that WL will be to large to manage, he presented that in slides to the school board this month.

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.

There will be plenty of seats for high school with the annex to WL and the plans for the Career Center site.

In response to the earlier comments about parking, I've never had to park more than 3-4 blocks away (go up Wilson towards Rhodes and there are plenty of metered spots up there). Of course, as a parent, I've never had reason to park for more than 2 hours, so it's not been an issue. If you were parking all day (as a student or staff would), that would be more challenging. There are some 12 hour metered spots down the Hill towards 66 but I bet those can get pricey...