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[quote=Anonymous]The talk about Hardy is interesting to me, as it was exactly the sort of talk I heard about Deal when I was kid, going to Lafayette in the '90s.  When I was in kindergarden, the notion was of course only a small minority of neighborhood kids would consider Deal--it was thought to be a rough place and mostly full of out of bounds kids.  The kids from Lafayette who went to Deal were largely out of bounds kids who lotteried into Lafayette and whose home schools were much worse options.  Of course, it was the most acceptable DCPS middle school option, and certainly there were people from the neighborhood who went there for financial reasons or to show support of public school.  And there were certainly kids who did really well there, and parents who would say "see, my high SES white kid did great at Deal!"  I moved away from the area before middle school, but kept in touch with my friends in the area.  By the time they graduated 6th grade, a good third of the class actually went on to Deal (the rest went private), which was way different from when I was in kindergarten!  Now it seems from these boards that the majority of kids from Lafayette, Janney, Murch, etc. go on to Deal and there is no space for out of bounds kids.  I know Hardy has a different set of issues and there are charters as an alternative, but my parents would have never thought that Deal would actually have become a [i]popular[/i] option, rather than an option of last resort.[/quote]

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