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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]

With all due respect, you don't seem very connected to the realities of DC politics. During the Pope era and its immediate aftermath the in-boundary families were routinely portrayed as the second coming of the Mississippi Citizens Council and the Pope supporters were the Freedom Riders. On this very internet forum it was fashionable a couple of years ago to portray the in-boundary families as primarily motivated by racism.

Check out this Jonetta Rose Barras article:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/jonetta-rose-barras-fighting-mad-in-georgetown/article/19676

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It's still fashionable today!

I forgot to post the link above to the 2010 article I mentioned

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/39647/michelle-rhees-campaign-to-diversify-dc-public-schools-means-wooing/full/
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