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Ward 3 kids are basically interchangeable in terms of competence.  Hardy has better scale than Deal's college campus.  Main difference, that.[/quote]

The main difference is that Hardy has a 40 year history of being a racial flashpoint. Everything else pales in comparison.[/quote]

If this is true, then this is reason enough to start a new WOTP MS, free of segregation-era baggage. But is it true?[/quote]

Ridiculous.  It's not like the neighborhood is seeking to convert a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial into a statue of Colonel Sanders.  It's a public school, for pete's sake, in a neighborhood, with neighborhood kids who are interested in going there.  To assert that local residents should be sensitive to a certain racial group's alleged stamp on this public property can only be the product of a mind that is completely disconnected from the way the world we live in actually works.[/quote]

Nobody is suggesting any of those things.  You've followed each other down a rabbit hole of confusion, bad information, and misunderstandings.  [/quote]

Not either of PPs, but if you read the other lengthy hardy thread you'll see accusations of racism whenever anyone says they want hardy to be more of a neighborhood school, meaning, more kids from the neighborhood (higher IB %).  There is clearly a lot of baggage here, so I think you're being unfair to say someone has gone alice in wonderland in simply pointing it out. 
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And here is a 2010 article to prove this point. It's long, and has a lot of discussion about Hardy. It may be that much has changed in 4 years, but based on this article it would be fair to use the phrase "racial flashpoint" to describe Hardy in 2010. 
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