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Revisionist history.  The IB parents didn't opt out.  The school was hijacked by its administration.  IB families were seen as PITAs, so little effort was spent recruiting at feeder ESs.  Instead, OOB spots were increased substantially.  To ensure the that the PITA OOB kids didn't enroll, the wait-list procedures were manipulated to admit well off OOB students and discourage poor OOB enrollment.  You can read about it here:

[url]http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/9728/rhee-feared-hardy-principal-was-weeding-out-poor-kids/[/url]

IB parents have been trying for years to undo the damage with little success.  [/quote]

This story is just bullshit.  This alleged research is poorly designed as has been discussed in this thread: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/156849.page#1428750

As was typical of Rhee and some of her supporters, this person made novice mistakes and refused to take responsibility for shoddy work which was used to smear someone's reputation.  If you can't do the real research, I guess you just pull pseudoscience out of your hat and pretend you know what you're doing. [/quote]

You should re-read the thread you cited, PP.  I'll help you by editing it down to the most relevant post:

[quote]Here's the story as far as I can tell. My perspective is that of an in-boundary parent.

Pope was cherry-picking admissions, [b]using administrative tricks to filter out both in-boundary and out-of-boundary kids he didn't want[/b]. He got pretty dirty with in-boundary families and pissed off a lot of people. When Fenty was running in 2006 -- way before Rhee was on the scene -- it was an issue in Ward 3, and Fenty made a campaign promise that he would get rid of Pope if elected.

During 2007-9 Rhee comes on board and tries to work with Pope. The [b]chancellor's office arranges several awkward meetings between Pope and feeder school parents[/b]. One he blows off completely. Another one he comes to but apparently didn't say what was expected, I heard a deputy chancellor talking to him in the hallway afterward say "WTF was that?"

Fast forward to fall 2009. Fenty realizes that he has less than a year to go before the next election, and he's getting pressured about keeping his campaign promise. He realizes that Ward 3 is his base and he can't afford to lose it, and he gives the word to Rhee that Pope needs to go. Rhee realizes she can't fire Pope outright because she doesn't have the documentation to prove cause. She comes up with this arts magnet school in an effort to lure Pope away from Hardy. According to people who were in the room when Rhee pitched the arts magnet to Pope, Rhee left the meeting believing that Pope had agreed to the magnet school job.

Obviously, either Rhee misread Pope or Pope changed his mind, but clearly by the time the change was announced Pope had decided to fight to keep his position at Hardy. Pope launches a guerrilla campaign to undermine Rhee, with parents and students as his proxies. Hardy becomes a city-wide cause because of the general resentment of Rhee and Fenty, race and class, and anxiety about the out-of-boundary process. Rhee and Fenty lose their jobs but Pope doesn't get his back.

A [b]new principal[/b] starts on July 1. She [b]dismantles Pope's admissions scheme[/b], and goes to a straight by-the-book lottery. [b]Enrollment surges by over 120 students[/b] -- it turns out Pope had been keeping the school almost a quarter empty. The [b]new students cause problems with scheduling and discipline[/b]. [b]Pro-Pope parents know they can't complain about the change in admissions policy[/b], so they start a campaign blaming all of the problems on the incompetence of the new prinicpal. After four months the new principal has had enough and begs for her old job back.

Which pretty much gets us to where we are today.
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I stand by my previous post.  It is revisionist history to claim that IB families abandoned Hardy.  Pope drove them out.[/quote]

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