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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardy model won't work. Hardy has only strong feeder schools. The majority of elementary schools feeding Eliot Hine and Jefferson are still struggling to bring their students up to a 5th grade level of literacy and math. That is a real issue that needs to be tackled head on by DCPS is they expect educationally ambitious parents with other choices to sign up at one of these middle schools[/quote]

Hardy (like its HS, Wilson) is setting up "advanced" classes that start the track to advanced classes at Wilson.  It results in is separation of students on roughly SES lines, with a few exceptions of course.  That sucks in some ways because of the way it looks, but there doesn't seem to be tension among students.  That system may be the only way to retain higher-SES students in DCPS.  If it works at places like Hardy (and to the extent it exists at Deal), it would probably work at other middle schools; but parents would have to demand the advanced classes and they would have to demonstrate commitment by sending kids there.[/quote]

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