I think it is a disservice to the community for people to post such negative things about HHS. I graduated from HHS, and I currently live in an apartment across the street. I'm not sure why people are concerned about the racial balance of the school, which is holding fairly steady. Statistics I have seen show that the school is about 35% white or Asian, about 30% Black, and 30% Latino, so everyone should feel welcome. I would bet that over 90% of the Black or Latino students come from middle-class families in good neighborhoods; the demographics do not show that this is an inner-city impoverished school. Things are not "out of control", by any stretch of the imagination. Conditions here are much lot closer to high schools in Northern Bergen County than they are to Paterson. Although I too would like to see more emphasis on education than sports, I also continue to believe that HHS provides an excellent education for any family that wants their children to attend a good college.
If I had the power to improve one thing at HHS, I would eliminate First Street between Beech and Central, and American Legion between 1st and 2nd. I would make Comet Way (behind the high-rises) two-way to handle some of the re-routed volume. There are enough north-south streets in Hackensack to accomodate the traffic of First Street, in fact Union Street and Railroad Avenue are both underused for their size. The HHS campus would be a better and safer place without a major road cutting through it. I don't like the idea of people "cruising" through the campus in their cars the way they do now, and as a taxpayer I don't want to pay for a crossing guard there. If anyone proposed putting a major road through another high school campus in Bergen County, people there would be in an uproar because it is clearly a negative condition for any high school campus. So why should we have it here. First Street is a county road, so getting this done wouldn't be easy.