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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few points:
My (not star) rec league LAX player made the team at Deal.   They had cuts but the bar is pretty low.

Deal now has an Ice Hockey team - no cuts.

Regarding the teachers - my experience is I could not ask for a better teaching team.   They work really well with my DS.

Depending on how you define diversity / mix of kids, you can either make Deal look that way or not.   There are many international families a Deal or children of families who work for DOS and have lived around the world - but a previous poster mentioned the students at Hardy coming from the Chinese Embassy.   Do both of these count for diversity? [/quote]

That’s not really considered ‘DC diversity.’  Diversity in the DC context is a rather binary construct.[/quote]

I talked about the mix of kid earlier. I am not referring to race. I am talking about the overwhelming number of kids my daughter has met have been children of type-A wealthier parents who aren’t very nice. This subset on the Deal students Venn diagram contains multiple races and ethnicities, the common trait is competitive unfriendly children. I hope she keeps branching out to meet more kids. I would think Hardy has a larger distribution of incomes meaning less spoiled rich kids. My son attends a DCPS that has a larger FARMs ratio and the kids are much friendlier.[/quote]

My daughter is at Hardy and I wanted a lower pressure (social and economical) environment for her and got it. Kids get to be kids more at Hardy. All this will change in the very near future though [/quote]

I am not really sure how you qualify that since you don't have a child at Deal.

We started at Hardy and moved to Deal.  World of difference, not only socially but academically.  Parents are the same at both school.  I think a bigger issue at Hardy is that since there OOB rate is so much higher the kids live all over the city.  My IB kids didn't hang out with many school friends but with their neighborhood friends.  I am not sure about sports.  We kept the kids in their travel and rec leagues for their sports.  Never really considered the sports at either school.  There are nice kids and problem kids at both schools.  I think the difference is that Hardy has a harder time dealing with the problems than Deal does.  It was one of the reasons we decided to switch.  With a smaller environment the problems are highlighted and I felt like Hardy catered to the problems rather than coming down hard on them.

One of my kids is now at Wilson and even though the Hardy kids are there now my DC hangs out with the Deal kids.  They are really nice. [/quote]

When was this?  This was the first year that Eaton fed to Hardy - and now 1/2 or more of the 6th graders are from Eaton, and 1/3 or more on top of that are from the other feeders.  As noted above... it's changing fast.[/quote]

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