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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To all those OOB parents with an inferiority complex because they live eotp, get over it!  It's clear that you recognize wotp is better...at least for schooling your dc.  The bar is lower eotp - simple as that.  If you want to stop feeling so much internal shame just move wotp and be done with it.  Remember that feeling of excitement you got when your kid got into an oob school?  Remember that and just be grateful you you have this opportunity wotp.[/quote]

I'm an IB Hardy parent and I want to distance myself from this poster immediately. She speaks for no one but herself.[/quote]Ha ha, this person is hilarious!  Speaking as an EotP parent, I just have to laugh at the notion that the previous poster really believes that we feel shame for living there.  So deluded! Don't worry, IB Hardy parent, this person is uniquely odd - no worry of me anyway assuming the crazy one speaks for other WotP parents.[/quote]

The PP is right, though.  This entire thread boils down to a bunch of EOTP families defending their access to a WOTP neighborhood middle school.  Hardy has turned into a charter school with a neighborhood preference.[/quote]So enroll your kid and it won't be one anymore.  [i]Literally no one is stopping you.[/i]  How do you think all those EotP kids originally got in OOB?  Because the school was abandoned by the IB families!  And that's what's so hilarious now -- that a few IB posters are whining about the big bad EotP families who somehow are standing at the doorway swinging ax handles at them to keep them from enrolling in Hardy.

Sheesh!  If you want to blame someone, blame those chickenshit IB families from decades ago who didn't enroll.  They're the ones who left the space for other families to attend.  [/quote]

Uh, no.

There are no "IB families from decades ago who didn't enroll."

Hardy has only been at its current location for 18 years, before that it was on Foxhall Road and was a small, "boutique" neighborhood school.[b] Even after the move to Burleith it was still a neighborhood school.[/b] What killed it as a neighborhood school was moving to Hamilton Education Campus in Northeast from 2005 to 2008 while it was renovated.  At that time anyone who wanted to could go to Deal or Latin (which at that time was located in AU Park), and literally all of the IB Hardy kids went to one of those two rather than commute 40 minutes across the city.  In the life of a middle school, three years is a generation.  When Hardy moved back, it had been reconstituted as an OOB school, and the principal found he liked it that way. That wasn't really a problem as long as there were seats for everyone at Deal and Latin. Things didn't start heating up at Hardy until a few years later, when very quickly both schools filled up and the focus turned to Hardy.

If anyone is to blame, it's DCPS for creating this mess, and the parents for letting them.[/quote]  Granted, I don't know the history of the school at its former location on Foxhall Road. You got me there.  I'm guessing that it was full of IB families from what you are saying?

But you are completely wrong about Hardy being a neighborhood school before the move to Hamilton.  It was highly OOB -- maybe 70% is what I heard when my daughter attended the year before the move to Hamilton.  So, yes, the IB families abandoned the school before any move to Hamilton. I don't know when they left or why they left -- all I know is that they had chosen not to attend by that point in time so other people in search of a good education from outside the neighborhood took their place. And now those families that were looking for the best education they could get for their children are being treated in this thread by a few posters as if they are a powerful cabal scheming to keep IB families out of the school.  Yeah right.[/quote]

If Hardy was 30% IB back then it was attracting [i]all[/i] of the IB kids. One of the problems Hardy has had since it moved from Foxhall Road is that its attendance zone is just too small for the size of the school to be a neighborhood school. It has about a quarter as many kids in its feeders as Deal --  and about half as many [i]per seat[/i]  -- which is 35% OOB. If Hardy had the same capture rate as Deal it would be 30-35% IB. Now, keep in mind that the Hardy feeders have basically doubled in size in the past decade -- Stoddert and Key have both added additions and trailers. Pre-move, Hardy was doing as good a job as Deal is today at attracting in-boundary families. The notion that the school was "abandoned" by IB families is just not supported by history.

And even if it were true, so what? Why should today's IB families -- a completely different group of people -- be responsible for what IB families did a decade ago?[/quote]

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