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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is going to attend this new school?  The same Ward 2 and Ward 3 families that are not attending Hardy Middle School now?  What about this school is going to keep them in the feeer pipeline and draw them into DCPS beyond elementary school?[/quote]

[b]Many are not attending Hardy because, until recently, they could attend Deal with minor effort. That has changed. [/b]

You can make smarmy comments all you want, but the need is there. The statistics and forecasts bear this out. Your ignorance does not change these realities. [/quote]

Wrong, it has not been a matter of minor effort for Key, Mann, Stoddert, and Hyde families to attend Deal.  That was the reason for the ouster of Pope a few years ago - to make Hardy attractive to the neighborhood, but that has been very slow going.  [/quote]

It depends what you mean by "recently." In 2008 I sat in the gym in my out-of-boundary-for-Deal elementary school while Deal Principal Melissa Kim pitched the parents of fifth graders to consider Deal for sixth grade. What I remember in particular was that she said the school had recently been renovated and she had been tasked with getting the enrollment up to 800. (Which seems astonishing today). In 2009, every fifth grader from my school who wanted to go to Deal got in OOB. In 2010, none did. It was that sudden that Deal went from being essentially automatic to impossible. It is no coincidence that in 2009 feeder rights for OOB kids were introduced, they hadn't been needed up to that point, all of a sudden they were critical. It is no coincidence that in 2010 Michelle Rhee announced that Principal Pope was being reassigned at Hardy. Up to that point it hadn't really been an issue that Hardy wasn't a neighborhood school, because Deal was a de facto neighborhood school for the Hardy kids.[/quote]

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