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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually researching and knowing facts about a school apparently are pretty rare for most parents, even educated well off parents.  Instead, more often word of mouth, general perceptions tend to be the norm on at least suburban schools in recent studies.  I would guess within DC Deal/Wilson would be the suburban equivalent.   It would also explain why people make such uniformed judgmental statements in these threads.  Schools can accomplish a lot but fighting adult ignorance is out of their mandate

Sociologists Shed Light on Suburban School Choice

The Wauters are not rare. In fact, their uninformed decision was the rule rather than the exception for the 46 middle- and working-class suburban families whose stories are summarized in a chapter of  Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools, a book published by the Russell Sage Foundation in March. Lareau, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, edited the book with Kimberly Goyette, an associate professor of sociology at Temple University, also in Philadelphia.  http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2014/05/parent_choice.html[/quote]

Parents are judging Hardy based on their experience with Patrick Pope telling them to go to hell when they asked for advanced or at least on grade level classes, then DCPS assigning what was it - 4 different principals in 4 years? The skepticism about the school is well justified.

Everyone hopes it will turn around. But what I have asked for is some evidence that hardy grads are doing well wherever they head to for us, and so far I have not received any information.[/quote]My Hardy grad, who went to the school when Mr. Pope was principal, is now at Georgetown.[/quote]

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