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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never heard anyone describe some innovative program that attracted them to Deal. Deal is a success because they have high-scoring kids. Hardy needs more high-scoring kids. Yes, probably more neighborhood kids. High-performing kids score well, and all of the sudden it is a better school.[/quote]

Your kids must be relatively young. My kids are in high school and I can certainly recall a time when neighborhood families eschewed Deal. Two factors allowed Deal to turn the corner: its renovation and its IB middle years accreditation which mandated full year science and social studies as well as foreign language classes. Hard to believe but even as recently as just a few years ago, DCPS didn't automatically provide those classes to its middle schoolers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/middle-schools-present-vexing-problem-for-dc-leaders-as-parents-choose-other-options/2014/02/17/29b95e24-93ef-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html?utm_term=.c646e1fea321[/quote]

I can remember circa 2008 when the Deal principal came to my non-Deal-feeder elementary school and addressed a PTA meeting. The message: "consider Deal." The renovation had just been completed and she was under pressure to get enrollment over 800. [/quote]

And now she works for KIPP, and is on the board of at least one other charter school. [/quote]

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