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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're fine sending your kids to Eaton or Stoddert - including having a % of OOB students and some diversity, you'll be ok sending your kids to Hardy. If you want a "public school that's just like a private" as people often say about Mann or Key and then go to private - than you are likely never going to be ok with sending your kid to Hardy (or Deal ... or Wilson). That's fine, but there's no need to also then 'trash' on Hardy. It's at the point of hitting all standards for a high performing public school. Just be a private school family & be fine with that...

-- a public school grad with two Ivy league degrees & HHI & fine sending my kids to public school too

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I think this reflects many of the parents of new IB Hardy students (mostly Eaton/Stoddert). Lots of incomes 200-400k, multiple Ivy degrees, don't really see the need to have a nanny ferry the kids to an "elite" private, and in general chose to live in DC instead of Virginia or Maryland. Who do you think are buying those 1M+ Glover Park townhomes? Its not like they couldn't have bought a place in the 'burbs. A bit of diversity never hurt anyone, but nobody wants their kid to be too 'different'. Hardy seems to be winning over these folks. While they can spring 40K for tuition or move to Bethesda, why?

But some of the families that send kids to Key or Mann? Yeah, most Stoddert families would prefer they keep their kids out of Hardy - not because the kids are problematic, but that their parents are (see the racist incident at Key). [/quote]

I love the “hey there are some educated white people here”. They use it to try attract more because deep down they know that there is a lot of other types there and they wish it was more like them.

I am not sure how woke one is when they bask in how urban there life is when they spend every breath trying to make it more homogeneous like the mcleans and Bethesdas of the world. What exactly are you trying to flip at hardy? Hypocrites[/quote]

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