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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well first of all OP had the data wrong - he claimed that DCPS made no distinction between proficient and advanced and therefore he would not either because the data was not available

OP stated he had no vested interest in Hardy

OP's only vested interest so far seems to have been trying to prove that Basis was not a Title I school last year when it scored #2 on the DC CAS, second only to Deal, which has been disproven

but the way he went about asserting that was also highly misleading

so I would say that OP's views are extreme (or in some senses irrelevant) because they fail to take into account the factors that parents do when dealing with decisions about MS as opposed to ES, which include so much more than just 
"will my child do well there"

for ES that is probably enough for many high SES parents who are confident about the intellectual environment they provide at home around the family dinner table and over the summers, but once you get to MS parents are thinking

about peer groups
potential temptations
rigorous and challenging educations that need to start before 9th grade to be college ready and college acceptable

"performing well" becomes a deal breaker if it is a concern, but otherwise it is a baseline I think for most of us

I think OP may have much younger kids or older kids or no kids....... no skin in the game and not many friends who do
and that is like me sitting in Econ 101 while studying Latin America at the same time and thinking - what the heck?

the bottom line is us IB folks are real people and real parents and his economic analysis ignores most of the factors that play into the decision making process at this stage in the school game[/quote]

Please point out where OP Claimed DCPS made no distinction between proficient and advanced.  I don't see that anywhere.

OP acknowledges he has "no skin in the game" as you put it. and offers he analysis as an objective way of looking at the situation.  If you don't want to send your kids to Hardy, no matter what the data is,  fine -- you don't have to.  But why try to discredit OP?  Why appear to be angry with someone who simply provided data?[/quote]

"to distinction" = no distinction, as corrected above.[/quote]

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