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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people get suspicious when you tell them to go to the (new) neighborhood school to improve its academic quality.  Middle school is only three years, so parents want to send their kids to a school of good quality, not necessarily have their kids be the ones to work through the problems.[/quote]

Yes, and I want the middle school to improve my child's "academic quality."  That is the job of the faculty and administrative leadership.  The school should not depend on my child and other heretofore well-prepared kids for superficial paper gains (standardized test score increases) which are no substitute for real and tangible improvements in academic quality.[/quote]You're right.  You shouldn't send your child there.  My well-prepared child did fine there but it obviously wouldn't work for your child.[/quote]

Agreed.  My well-prepared kid did great, but if you don't think your child is right for Hardy you are free to send him elsewhere, and should do so.[/quote]

Exactly - [b]which is why Ward 3 wants another middle school [/b]that will push and pull and fully challenge their kids to reach higher academically, not a school that looks their kids to goose the school's test scores.[/quote]

Why should the city invest tax payers money to procure land and build a new school, when the residents of that ward fail to utilize a fully functioning school geared for that ward.  You are basically asking the city to be fiscally irresponsible.  [/quote]

Because the school over many years has demonstrably not met the expectation of its surrounding population, yet serves an overwhelmingly OOB population that apparently strongly feels the school works for them.  When you think about it, it's kind of a no-brain-er[/quote]

How has the school not met the needs of the surrounding population?  It serves an overwhelnning OOB population because the IB population chooses not to attend.  [b]The OOB slots wuld not be available if the IB students attended.  Should the city leave the school vacant and/or underenrolled and not allow OOB students.[/b]  The more IB students who chose to attend, the fewer OOB slots will be available for OOB students.  It really is not rocket science.  [/quote]Logic!  Thank you![/quote]

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