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[quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]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. [b] Parents who win the lottery are willing to commute every day to avoid being perceived as being inferior.[/b]  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][/b]

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]

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

but because of geography, right, or because you eventually are going to send your child to Wilson...?

[b]not because you needed to avoid "being perceived as inferior?" [/b]

This poster strikes me as batshit crazy.

Most people who live in these areas have already been described as "recession proof" 
and presumably are not worried about keeping up with the Joneses - they are the Joneses -
 
and if they choose to send their kids to Hardy, they will do so, and trumpet it from the rooftops, 
to set an example and try to attract more kids like theirs to the school, the same way Basis parents do..........
they are doing it on this thread even as OP and others are trying to stay on topic 
(although I believe what the Hardy parents and to a degree Basis parents are saying is completely relevant)

I think of all the people in the city these people (who have been described at least among public school parents as some of the most wealthy) are probably the least worried about what other people think of them.....[/quote]

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