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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused why middle schools like Hardy and Stuart-Hobson have fairly low percentage of in boundary students (30 percent or so) but they also don't offer many  if any lottery spots.  Can anyone explain?[/quote]

Simple reason.  Back in 2010, Michelle Rhee unilaterally, and controversially, elevated enrollment in a feeder school to the same status as in-boundary vis a vis lottery preferences.

Before Rhee, in-boundary had the higher preference.  So what you have at both Hobson and Hardy are lots of students in feeder school who do not live in-boundary pinning down 6th grade middle school spots, leaving few to be auctioned off.

Some of us love would see the preferences rolled back to the pre 2010 arrangement to support true neighborhood middle schools.  No such luck - DCPS isn't interested.[/quote]

Back in 2010 when everything was so great and high-SES IB students all attended?  Come on.  You still wouldn't go there if they didn't have the OOB feeder alumni.  L[b]ots of the low-income and low-performing kids are IB in affordable housing or legacy family homes or fake addresses.[/b][/quote]

I would have agreed with this statement a decade back, not anymore. Many of the elderly relatives who served as address anchors are gone, with their renovated and houses sold to young families. Without feeder rights enjoying the same preference as IB status, you wouldn't see such crowding at Deal, and momentum for Hobson and Hardy to become majority to in-boundary would have picked up. Call me whatever names you want, many of us feel this way. PS.  I'm not white and didn't grow up middle-class.[/quote]

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