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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

Thanks.

Again, earlier posters are being unfair regarding my use of proficient+advanced. That is what everyone uses to assess schools, inluding the Charter Board in the links provided above.

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Your "everyone" doesn't include any of the parents I know.  We are IB for Hardy.  [/quote]

I have to say I completely agree with this - witness all the people who are putting their faith in schools with low DC CAS scores around the city for their "snowflakes" (I hate that term because I have a feeling it also means white). 
 A school is not its DC CAS scores, especially when 
a) the DC CAS is a joke
b) some of the schools with the highest scores are schools that the folks you are speaking to here would never send their kids to (aka Kipp, DC Prep.....)

PS OP don't know if this is true but dh says that Md sets their CAS higher for proficient
AND that DC is now talking about setting everything lower than most states for the PARCC

I agree as well that what matters to me past 5th is what level kids come in with not their learning curve (just because like me I think the population you are trying to convince would be the kids who would be in the honors classes not aspiring to them)

kudos to Principal Pride and Mary Cheh who together are trying so hard to make this work for all Hardy families

does anyone know whether it is an urban legend that Hardy was once was a neighborhood school?  When? 
 
BMB?  Before Marion Barry?

When I grew up here the only kids I knew who ever went to public school went to Mann and then came to join us at what were then all affordable privates on (what we viewed as) one middle/upper middle class income........

And I really think it was - my father does not remember struggling to pay tuition for 3 kids at private school and he was not a doctor, lawyer, stock broker, lobbyist.... he was a fed - I don't know what level but a lot of our fathers were and then there were the rich kids and the poor kids, and we were not in Catholic schools.

We all know that private school and private college tuition have outpaced inflation and I assume that means salaries by an astronomical amount, no?

OP, care to comment?

PS the economic recession theory and the Deal increase in popularity is a very widely held belief even if it is false[/quote]

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