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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting that there was not enough demand to keep the school open between roughly 1980 and 1996.  Since it reopened, sitting, waiting, the actual users have rarely been from the immediate neighborhood.  Point is, they stopped using it so it was shut down for a long time....[/quote]

But Amy Carter attended back in 1974!  Oh, wait, she was OOB.   :oops:

Seriously, the history of Hardy 20 to 35 years ago is irrelevant to the discussion.  The demographics of DC have changed dramatically in just the past decade.  The city is gentrifying, and many middle class families are enrolling in DCPS.

The few articles I can find about Hardy suggest that before the renovation that started in December, 2005, Hardy had much high percentage of IB kids.  However, the renovation required relocation to the Hamilton Center in NE, and enrollment dropped from 420 to 320 after the move.  Presumably, most of the 100 who left were IB families who did not want their kids commuting to NE each day -- reportedly 45 minutes by bus.  So, we might infer that IB enrollment was at least 24% in 2005.

It appears that Pope put little effort into luring IB families back to Hardy when the school returned to its renovated building in August, 2008.  Instead, he simply increased OOB enrollment

Worse, however, is that rather than play the hand he was dealt and simply accept kids by lottery, he created an application process that allowed him to keep undesirables out.  Of course, the easiest way to improve a public school in DC is to be selective in admissions...

So, Hardy became the darling of many OOB families -- if they made the cut.  Those families, in turn, became vocal supporters of Pope.  When Rhee got wind of what Pope was doing, she removed him.  Of course, the IB families protested his removal.  [/quote]

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