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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The argument that test scores for Wilson and Hardy differ is an exaggeration. For Hardy, white students scored 46% advanced and 46% proficient in math, and 29% advanced with 63% proficient for reading. For Wilson, the scores are 46% advanced and 45% proficient for reading, and 61% advanced and 30% proficient for reading. (note that Hardy's scores are more variable since the school is much smaller. Reading scores for the year before last were 41% and 41%. Math scores were unchanged.)

So, for the most part, if IB parents are willing to send their kids to Wilson, they should be willing to swnd their kids to Hardy.

--IB Hardy[/quote]

That's an interesting point but here is why I would be fine with sending my kids to Wilson and not Hardy. More specifically, why we bought in bounds for Deal and not Hardy when we were recently moving to a new house:

1. The racial issue. My DD and DC are Caucasian and I do not want them to be in a very small minority. I'd want at least 20% of the kids to be white. Even if Hardy had better scores than Deal, I'd still hesitate to send them to a school where she is part of such a small group. 
2. High school v middle school issue. I went to a rural-small town mix high school which was, if you looked at its overall classes and scores, not great. However, it had a lot of AP and advanced classes and I never had a class that was not AP/advanced except for PE. I got a great education and if you looked at the SAT scores of my classmates in those AP/advanced classes (this was before Common Core), you'd have seen they'd have rivaled any scores for kids in much better schools. High schools allow for a lot more educational self-selection (yes, everyone can sign up for an AP class but to do so requires motivation and a desire to learn, which is even more important than raw intelligence, IMO) than middle schools, at least as far as I am aware. Thus, I care less about a school's overall scores, provided they have a good selection of AP/advanced classes and kids in those classes do well.
3. First best versus second best. As someone discussed upthread, Wilson is the best public (non test-in) HS in the city and Deal is the best public MS. This would not apply to someone who wants/plans to send their kids to a private school, but for DH and I, it’s important to send our DD and DC to public school if possible (we both are very happy with our public school education). But we want it to be the best public school education we can get. We’d rather Wilson had higher scores (though less of a concern due to point 2 above) but taking into account the AP classes and the fact that it’s the best available, we are fine with it. The alternative would be to go private (or move out of DC), neither of which is an option to take lightly, though we’d do it if necessary. However, we have no desire to send them to Hardy when we can send them to the better school, i.e. Deal – and still stay public.

I confess the uniforms are not an issue at all - would probably make it easier to get picky dressers out of the house in the morning![/quote]

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