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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am delighted to see all the statistics backing up the point that I perceive as so obvious:  The more IB parents families their kids to Hardy, the more scores at Hardy will start reflecting IB families.

What is hard to understand about this?  Nothing -- except there have been other psych/perception forces at work over the last few years that have clouded even the most logical/statistical minds.  [/quote]

It seems like the parents who say they are waiting for the scores to go up before they send their kids to Hardy are really saying - they're more influenced by gossip and innuendo than they are by statistics and common sense.[/quote]

Perhaps they recognize that the emperor has no clothes.  The percentage of white kids scoring "advanced" is much higher at Deal than Hardy.
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Is there really a concern that if your already advanced kids went to Hardy, their scores would fall?  Or is it more likely that their very presence would improve the advanced percentage?  Do you think that when your kids move from either middle school to Wilson, they they will be negatively affected by the lower scoring students from around the city?[/quote]

I haven't looked at the Hardy data myself, but I'm sort of thinking along the same lines as this PP seems to be, in terms of possible explanations for the likely significant difference in % of white advanced performers at Hardy vs. Deal.  I wish there was a breakdown for IB vs. OOB among white kids.  If Hardy's white kids are mostly OOB, maybe they were not as well prepared academically at other elementaries relative to those white kids at Deal, who are mostly IB.  Just a guess.

However, as I'm typing this, I realize this sort of flies in the face of the statement that if you're a white kid from an educated family anywhere in DCPS, you'll likely perform similarly.  [/quote]

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