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

As it turns out, I'm a game theorist. So, yes, I COMPLETELY familiar with such concepts as the prisoners' dilemma.

You're confusing matters. The tension in a PD is that everyone has a strictly dominant strategy: fink. Translated here, this is "going private" is the strictly dominant strategy. No one believes, not even yourself.

Instead, what you're actually describing is a coordination game. Stag Hunt is a good example. If you and I agree to work together, we can bring down a large deer and eat like kings. If I work alone, I can catch some rabbits. You too. But if I decide to hunt stag while you go after rabbits, I go hungry while you dine on Bugs Bunny.

Stag Hunt is more applicable here. That's the crux of the matter: if the IB families agree to send their children to Hardy, Hardy will quickly look like Deal. If you look below the surface, it already looks like Deal in several key ways.

An unrelated poster asked about "why would I send my kid to a lesser-quality school (Hardy) when I could just send them somewhere better (private)?" There is a difference in cost, you know. That should be a sufficient answer, but there are other compensating differentials as well.

Moreover, my entire point was that if Wilson is good enough for your child, Hardy is most certainly good enough for him too. If Deal is good enough for your child, you can make a solid case that Hardy is good enough for him too. That's what the data say. [/quote]

OP - if you happen to see this message, you are probably well aware that the 2017 - 18 academic year is predicted by many to be the tipping point for Hardy.  There have been a confluence of events that make this more likely than not; BASIS cut its capacity almost in half and there is evidence of a local baby boom compounding the effect of the diminished capacity.  People who are planning to go private will do so but for those who were planning on charters only, may have no options but Hardy.  All students who wanted to attend BASIS for 5th grade for the 2015-16 academic year were able to do so.  Highly unlikely for 2016-17 year.  And when you look even further out, [b]Eaton is zoned for Hardy for 2018-19 [/b](no longer have a choice unless they have a sibling already attending Deal). Should be interesting to see what happens at Hardy.  Stay tuned.[/quote]

The forced march down to Hardy.... sign!   :x [/quote]

I know for many if not most at Eaton that Hardy is considered an inferior choice, but in a few years (maybe a little optimistic), people will be talking about Hardy in the same way as Deal.  More and more high achieving students from KMSH will be there, my dc being one of them.  And as Hardy improves so does Wilson which also great for Deal students.[/quote]

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