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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The truth is that Principals and admin. officers of nearby private school are freaking out in front of a rising Hardy, as this it is already turning into lower enrollment starting from this year, as it happened for Deal and Wilson.

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There are more than enough students from fabulously wealthy families to fill all of NW DC's private schools many times over.[/quote]

This just proves your ignorance. Many families from NW DC send their kids to private schools because they just don't have options, not because they have money to throw away. Every family I talk to who sends their kids to private schools would be superhappy to send them to public school, if public schools were better. Our household makes 350k a year combined and still we hate having to drive a new car off a cliff every year just to pay 40K a year someone who has to teach algebra and the rules of grammar. [/quote]

I remember this same thing was said about BASIS: private schools are shivering in their boots! It's nonsense, sorry. Sure, there are a handful of middle class (at your stated salary, I won't include you) families in NW private schools who are looking for great public or charter options. I count myself among them and will possibly switch my child to public or charter at some point. But for most private school families, tuition is a drop in the bucket, and they'll see no need to move on. No one at my child's school even knows that BASIS or Hardy or DCI or whatever exist. (They have sometimes heard of Deal, and I do even know of a family whose children left private school when their parents rented an efficiency apartment in Tenleytown just to establish "residency." Cheaper than 2 tuitions, apparently.) But who cares? Hardy is clearly strengthening its academic credentials, and one hopes that this will serve all comers well and also start to raise the bar for all public middle schools in DC.[/quote]

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