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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

[url]http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Compare.aspx?tab=1&school=405,246[/url]
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Thank you! I had asked OP for this analysis, with no response so far.

Those results debunk this whole thread. The proportion of white kids who score advanced at deal is essentially double than hardy, both in reading and math. Over 50% vs 27%. Over 70% vs 42%. That's certainly not peanuts. And parents notice.[/quote]

And what do parents determine?  That Hardy will not be good enough for their kids until the scores go up, but the scores won't go up until kids like theirs go to Hardy, therefore they will keep waiting, complaining about the scores, sending their kids to private for middle school, if they can't do Deal, then to Wilson for high school where kids like theirs are mingling with Hardy kids and kids from all over DC, but somehow it's OK now.

I predict OP will be back -- but let's give him a break for tonight.[/quote]

[b]Parents, everywhere, determine that they don't like being manipulated about what is best for their kids[/b]. If there is a credible and solid plan and leadership team to improve certain school, a good number of them may opt in. But misleading conclusions based on faulty analysis is certainly not the same as a credible and solid plan. OP seems to be a great and very capable guy...but may have drank too much political kool aid.[/quote]

Then parents should hate being manipulated to think that Hardy is inferior and that they shouldn't send their IB kids here until "Scores go up" which obviously won't happen until their kids go there.    And they should even hate more being manipulated to being blind to the fact that only so many kids can fit into Deal and that if some of them went to another school with similar SES kids, they would do just as well, because it's the kids, not the building that counts.[/quote]

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