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[quote=Anonymous][quote]A new principal starts on July 1. She dismantles Pope's admissions scheme, and goes to a straight by-the-book lottery. Enrollment surges by over 120 students -- it turns out Pope had been keeping the school almost a quarter empty. The new students cause problems with scheduling and discipline. Pro-Pope parents know they can't complain about the change in admissions policy, 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. [/quote]

I didn't follow the Hardy drama at the time, but reading this version makes me feel Pope a) lost the IB families when the school was in NE; b) couldn't lure the families back fast enough but had lots of OOB families, c) still wanted to maintain a high standard, and so d) used the admissions process to do that.

Pope's got one crowd unwilling to drive across town and another crowd that keeps doing just that.   Why should he turn his back on them if they're willing to jump through hoops?

New principal removes the admissions process, and the discipline problems start.  As a parent, I'd be pretty angry about that, too.

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