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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]About racism.
Hardy 6th grade IB parent: indeed my DC was asked by IB parents how she was doing at school with so many black peers... whether of not she was comfortable etc..If she was doing playdates (now hangouts) wit them...[/quote]

I think you are being absolutely honest here...and that makes me a little sad.[/quote]

However, many IB families who avoid Hardy happily enroll their kids in Latin (44% AA) and BASIS (48% AA).  Avoiding the AA demographic must not be the top priority for those families...[/quote]

Right -- The priority could be avoiding the perception of inferiority.  Hardy is perceived as inferior among a certain group of IB parents and Latin and Basis are not.  Hardy has baggage.  The charters do not.  Parents who win the lottery are willing to commute every day to avoid being perceived as being inferior.  Granted, some parents prefer the academic focus of those charters and would travel long distances from any part of the city to send their kids there, but I'm betting that is not the primary motivator for many IB Hardy parents.[/quote]

Here's another possibility, PP.  The IB families who choose Latin and BASIS over Hardy do so not because they fear being thought of as inferior by others, but rather because those schools do, in fact, offer better educations than Hardy does.  [/quote]

Maybe, but that's a perception too, that's hard to quantify.  It would be interesting to know if those same parents would have chosen Deal over the charters, if it had been an option.  I'd guess probably some would -- if they prefer a  classics- or STEM- based education, but more would opt for the geographically convenient Deal.[/quote]

We would have sent our child to Deal without hesitation.[/quote]

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