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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents who do not send their kids to Hardy won't send their kids to the NW charter middle school either. Charters won't have neighborhood preferences. The lottery mechanism will skew the school student body towards a larger OOB population more than Hardy's. Applications from OOB will be huge, due to parents perception of NW as a safer area. The final result will be just an additional traffic source for an area of the city already badly affected by school-induced traffic from nearby areas and from Virginia and Maryland dropping their kids to the DC private schools.

This is just political propaganda by Stephanie Lilley, Ward 3 candidate to the School Board of Education, and strong proponent of the privatization and charterisation of the DC school system. Good luck with her. [/quote]

More kids who are in-boundary for Hardy attend Latin and Basis than Hardy.[/quote]

Not from my IB school. 
A total of 4 kids (including those who left after 4th grade) are at Basis. 4 are at Latin (including those who left after 4th grade). 6 are at Hardy.

IB 5th grade mom, who is looking into Hardy as the best option so far for her 5th grader (and not only because is free. None of the private schools I have visited so far has impressed me, or do not look like a good fit. Only exception is WES, which looks like a very well-balanced school, but is far from where I live, and attends more to the MD families than DC. A DC family attending WES, extremely happy with it, confirmed they have become a shuttle service for their kids 7 days a week). [/quote]

This is Horace Mann, right? 
I believe it is, as I do recognize the numbers, though I have a smaller number for Washington Latin, only two girls, who left at the end of 4th grade. So at Horace Mann , from last year 5th grade, as far as I know we have:

6 at Hardy
4 at Basis
2 at Latin

A middle school charter in Ward 3 would not do any good service for parents who are unwilling to attend Hardy. They will not attend the charter either. There will just be disruption, and additional shipments of students travelling East to West in the morning and West to East in the afternoon. Not good for anyone.

Traffic in Ward 3 drops dramatically the day after schools close. Please stop Ward 3 school commuting congestion, we cannot take any more of that.

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