Anonymous
09/15/2025 13:45
Subject: APS HWB 90 minute blocks
Anonymous wrote:The devolution of the choice school threads is always entertaining at least.
I guess. I can't imagine dipping into a thread about a school my kids don't attend and calling other parents liars. Aren't there a million other things a person could do with their time? Or, at least, a million other threads on DCUM you could comment on? It's like a social media version of the perverts who run up to women and flash them from under a trenchcoat, they get a weird thrill and everyone else finds it gross.
Anonymous
09/15/2025 13:37
Subject: APS HWB 90 minute blocks
The devolution of the choice school threads is always entertaining at least.
Anonymous
09/15/2025 13:06
Subject: APS HWB 90 minute blocks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Okay so now you admit after being called out that no one said a kid went to Harvard at HB's graduation. Also, APS doesn't use Naviance anymore.
Anonymous wrote:They did last year, for the 2025 kids
Also, you DO seem unhinged
your obsession with proving a kid went to Harvard (post after post!) is quite fascinating to me.
Anonymous
09/15/2025 11:05
Subject: Re:APS HWB 90 minute blocks
Anonymous wrote:No. The moral is to send your kid to a school that is a good fit for them, where they will hopefully flourish. Kids with the chops for elite schools can get in wherever from any APS school. I think H-B is great, but students sometimes have to seek out the appropriate challenges. It makes sense because the school is about putting students in the drivers seat. If your kid needs to be steered toward challenge—many do—then other options could be better for them. I fully agree with those who said there are pros and cons to any school.
I am pp and I was being sarcastic.
Anonymous
09/15/2025 11:01
Subject: Re:APS HWB 90 minute blocks
No. The moral is to send your kid to a school that is a good fit for them, where they will hopefully flourish. Kids with the chops for elite schools can get in wherever from any APS school. I think H-B is great, but students sometimes have to seek out the appropriate challenges. It makes sense because the school is about putting students in the drivers seat. If your kid needs to be steered toward challenge—many do—then other options could be better for them. I fully agree with those who said there are pros and cons to any school.
Anonymous
09/15/2025 10:27
Subject: Re:APS HWB 90 minute blocks
To recap, the moral of the story is we should send our very bright kids to HB because the classes are not as hard and the classes offered are not as rigorous as the main high schools but the guidance counselor will check the most rigorous box and so on the side the brilliant child will have time to cure cancer or save some whales and then go to Harvard. And in the end this is a good thing, because they will be at the best college ever.
#winning
#winning
Anonymous
09/15/2025 09:15
Subject: APS HWB 90 minute blocks
Anonymous wrote:
Okay so now you admit after being called out that no one said a kid went to Harvard at HB's graduation. Also, APS doesn't use Naviance anymore.
Anonymous wrote:They did last year, for the 2025 kids
Also, you DO seem unhinged
Anonymous
09/15/2025 09:12
Subject: APS HWB 90 minute blocks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I heard that HB's 2025 class had 1 Columbia, 1 Harvard, 1 Cornell, not counting another longtime HB student went to Harvard after doing senior year at a special program.
That strikes me as pretty consistent across time.
Elite students can get into elite schools from any APS high school. HB is great. So is Wakefield, people, just in a different way. If they have the option, let the kid choose to be where they think they'll flourish and it's likely they'll thrive. Kind of the idea behind HB in the first place.
Nope.
2025 - Columbia and Cornell - 1 each. No Harvard.
2024 - MIT (1)
2023 - MIT (1)
That's 1-2 each year nowhere close to 4-5.
So they lied about the '25 senior who got into Harvard and accepted?
Yea somebody is unhinged.
A graduate's upcoming attendance at Harvard was mentioned during HB graduation this year. Be careful about who the "unhinged" one is here. Why don't you believe it?
No, I don't believe you. They don't talk about the kids' colleges at graduation.
True, they don't. But this kid's TA dropped a pretty broad hint in her speech. Also it was in Naviance.
Okay so now you admit after being called out that no one said a kid went to Harvard at HB's graduation. Also, APS doesn't use Naviance anymore.
They did last year, for the 2025 kids
Anonymous
09/15/2025 08:58
Subject: APS HWB 90 minute blocks
I know the kid going to Harvard. It’s true. And why is it just so unbelievable?
Anonymous
09/14/2025 11:23
Subject: APS HWB 90 minute blocks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I heard that HB's 2025 class had 1 Columbia, 1 Harvard, 1 Cornell, not counting another longtime HB student went to Harvard after doing senior year at a special program.
That strikes me as pretty consistent across time.
Elite students can get into elite schools from any APS high school. HB is great. So is Wakefield, people, just in a different way. If they have the option, let the kid choose to be where they think they'll flourish and it's likely they'll thrive. Kind of the idea behind HB in the first place.
Nope.
2025 - Columbia and Cornell - 1 each. No Harvard.
2024 - MIT (1)
2023 - MIT (1)
That's 1-2 each year nowhere close to 4-5.
So they lied about the '25 senior who got into Harvard and accepted?
Yea somebody is unhinged.
A graduate's upcoming attendance at Harvard was mentioned during HB graduation this year. Be careful about who the "unhinged" one is here. Why don't you believe it?
No, I don't believe you. They don't talk about the kids' colleges at graduation.
True, they don't. But this kid's TA dropped a pretty broad hint in her speech. Also it was in Naviance.
Okay so now you admit after being called out that no one said a kid went to Harvard at HB's graduation. Also, APS doesn't use Naviance anymore.
How else are people supposed to take a reference to someone going to the "Big H up in Cambridge"? It was pretty awkward the teacher chose to do that BTW, but I think they're retired now. I could give a crap about Harvard, but your conspiracism and name-calling re: something that's well known in the school community is bizarre.
Anonymous
09/13/2025 14:09
Subject: APS HWB 90 minute blocks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I heard that HB's 2025 class had 1 Columbia, 1 Harvard, 1 Cornell, not counting another longtime HB student went to Harvard after doing senior year at a special program.
That strikes me as pretty consistent across time.
Elite students can get into elite schools from any APS high school. HB is great. So is Wakefield, people, just in a different way. If they have the option, let the kid choose to be where they think they'll flourish and it's likely they'll thrive. Kind of the idea behind HB in the first place.
Nope.
2025 - Columbia and Cornell - 1 each. No Harvard.
2024 - MIT (1)
2023 - MIT (1)
That's 1-2 each year nowhere close to 4-5.
So they lied about the '25 senior who got into Harvard and accepted?
Yea somebody is unhinged.
A graduate's upcoming attendance at Harvard was mentioned during HB graduation this year. Be careful about who the "unhinged" one is here. Why don't you believe it?
No, I don't believe you. They don't talk about the kids' colleges at graduation.
True, they don't. But this kid's TA dropped a pretty broad hint in her speech. Also it was in Naviance.
Okay so now you admit after being called out that no one said a kid went to Harvard at HB's graduation. Also, APS doesn't use Naviance anymore.
Anonymous
09/12/2025 09:58
Subject: APS HWB 90 minute blocks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I heard that HB's 2025 class had 1 Columbia, 1 Harvard, 1 Cornell, not counting another longtime HB student went to Harvard after doing senior year at a special program.
That strikes me as pretty consistent across time.
Elite students can get into elite schools from any APS high school. HB is great. So is Wakefield, people, just in a different way. If they have the option, let the kid choose to be where they think they'll flourish and it's likely they'll thrive. Kind of the idea behind HB in the first place.
Nope.
2025 - Columbia and Cornell - 1 each. No Harvard.
2024 - MIT (1)
2023 - MIT (1)
That's 1-2 each year nowhere close to 4-5.
So they lied about the '25 senior who got into Harvard and accepted?
Yea somebody is unhinged.
A graduate's upcoming attendance at Harvard was mentioned during HB graduation this year. Be careful about who the "unhinged" one is here. Why don't you believe it?
No, I don't believe you. They don't talk about the kids' colleges at graduation.
True, they don't. But this kid's TA dropped a pretty broad hint in her speech. Also it was in Naviance.
Anonymous
09/11/2025 22:02
Subject: APS HWB 90 minute blocks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I heard that HB's 2025 class had 1 Columbia, 1 Harvard, 1 Cornell, not counting another longtime HB student went to Harvard after doing senior year at a special program.
That strikes me as pretty consistent across time.
Elite students can get into elite schools from any APS high school. HB is great. So is Wakefield, people, just in a different way. If they have the option, let the kid choose to be where they think they'll flourish and it's likely they'll thrive. Kind of the idea behind HB in the first place.
Nope.
2025 - Columbia and Cornell - 1 each. No Harvard.
2024 - MIT (1)
2023 - MIT (1)
That's 1-2 each year nowhere close to 4-5.
You're just wrong. Did you even look at the link I sent? I'll reattach it here to help you out. HB didn't just send one to MIT in 2023 -- they also sent one to Brown and another to Columbia. So that's three, not one. And as I noted they sent another to Duke.
https://hbwoodlawn.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2024/03/2023-Senior-Plans-by-State.pdf
that's just 2 ivies, not 4-5 like you keep claiming
for a class of 100 kids...
100 kids? I thought hb was a school size of 750, so wouldn’t that be closer to 200?
That’s a smaller class size than almost all private schools in the area
Its seven grades, HB is both a middle school and a high school. There are a lot of limitations from having such small grades--they don't offer a lot of advanced high school classes at all/every year/standalone (often there is both AP and regular in the same room at the same period). Plus all of the other differences between public HB and private schools (facility size comparable to a 700-student middle school, no middle school sports or on site high school sports, no endowment to fund special activities, etc). Student body size is the other comparison I would make to a private school, its definitely a public school.
People do not think this through when they send kids there. If you have a high achieving academic kid who would take upwards of 10+ APs at one of the large high schools, HB is not a good fit.
or maybe it is - in that it seems easier to get your guidance counselor to check the "took the most challenging course load possible" box at HB than at W&L. And that leaves more time for starting your own non-profit or whatever other thing your kid needs to do to get into a top Ivy.
Sure, that is one way of looking at things if your ultimate goal is getting that box checked and who cares about the actual education part.
The education comes at the college you are excited about attending.
Anonymous
09/11/2025 19:26
Subject: APS HWB 90 minute blocks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I heard that HB's 2025 class had 1 Columbia, 1 Harvard, 1 Cornell, not counting another longtime HB student went to Harvard after doing senior year at a special program.
That strikes me as pretty consistent across time.
Elite students can get into elite schools from any APS high school. HB is great. So is Wakefield, people, just in a different way. If they have the option, let the kid choose to be where they think they'll flourish and it's likely they'll thrive. Kind of the idea behind HB in the first place.
Nope.
2025 - Columbia and Cornell - 1 each. No Harvard.
2024 - MIT (1)
2023 - MIT (1)
That's 1-2 each year nowhere close to 4-5.
So they lied about the '25 senior who got into Harvard and accepted?
Yea somebody is unhinged.
A graduate's upcoming attendance at Harvard was mentioned during HB graduation this year. Be careful about who the "unhinged" one is here. Why don't you believe it?
No, I don't believe you. They don't talk about the kids' colleges at graduation.
Anonymous
09/11/2025 17:53
Subject: APS HWB 90 minute blocks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I heard that HB's 2025 class had 1 Columbia, 1 Harvard, 1 Cornell, not counting another longtime HB student went to Harvard after doing senior year at a special program.
That strikes me as pretty consistent across time.
Elite students can get into elite schools from any APS high school. HB is great. So is Wakefield, people, just in a different way. If they have the option, let the kid choose to be where they think they'll flourish and it's likely they'll thrive. Kind of the idea behind HB in the first place.
Nope.
2025 - Columbia and Cornell - 1 each. No Harvard.
2024 - MIT (1)
2023 - MIT (1)
That's 1-2 each year nowhere close to 4-5.
So they lied about the '25 senior who got into Harvard and accepted?
Yea somebody is unhinged.
A graduate's upcoming attendance at Harvard was mentioned during HB graduation this year. Be careful about who the "unhinged" one is here. Why don't you believe it?