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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Red herring.  If Jefferson was approaching  anything close to being on par with Deal, you wouldn't hear Hill parents bitching about it being in a different meighborhood.  [/quote]

But how do you get it on par with Deal?   Note in the case of Hardy, IB parents are being sold to try it (rather than try to get to Deal OOB, or to charters) based on it being the neighborhood school.   If Jefferson got to be on par with say, where Hardy was a year or two ago, it would still have geography against it. [/quote]

Forget the geography excuse. Children used to commute from across the city to attend Jefferson when it was one of the top schools.  I had friends who lived in Shepherd Park that went to Jefferson.  If you build it, they will come.[/quote]

How long ago was that??[/quote]

This was in the early 90s.  I went to private school, but I can think of at least 3 of my high school friends that went to Jefferson for middle.  I have a younger colleague who attended Jefferson in the early 00s so it was still a school of choice as late then.  He said the IB kids were kept in one wing of the school while the application kids had the rest of the school.  Jefferson was almost entirely black students then so that's why I imagine such segregation did not make any waves.[/quote]

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