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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardy is not the worst middle school in DC, but as a parent are you going to willingly send your child to a worse school than what you counted on?  Especially when classmates are heading to private.  DCPS is actually counting on the fact that Cleveland Park parents will suck it up and send their kids to private school without raising too much of a fuss.  They won't go to Hardy, but the OOB kids will in larger numbers.[/quote]

DCPS may assume that but they ignore the fact that the John Eaton boundary area is pretty economically diverse, with many students living in small apartments and not just Victorian homes in Cleveland Park historic district.  Private school is beyond the means of many, admission odds can be tough and, most importantly, many parents want to be committed to public school through 12th grade.  With Deal and Wilson as next steps, they have been comfortable doing so.  Without Deal and with a possible unnamed high school assignment in the future, parents will be wondering what they committed to.  Put another way, they committed to DCPS even before Wilson was renovated,  But DCPS has not reciprocated their commitment.[/quote]

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