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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it true Hardy turns no one down in the lottery?[/quote]

Not sure about this year. Last year there was a waitlist but everyone on it got called eventually and they didn't quite fill the school.[/quote]

It's political.  Hardy serves as a safety valve for those trying to avoid truly crappy middle schools.[/quote]

What surprises me is that folks will debate for months on DCUM about uniforms, IB numbers, SEM, etc.. yet fail to appreciate this obvious truth.[/quote]

That's because it is neither obvious nor truth.   If IB parents attend Hardy then there will be no room for OOB students.  And nobody is trying to keep IB parents out.  In fact, DCPS and Principal Pride have been doing backflips trying to get IB parents to attend.[/quote]

But the unspoken corollary here is that IB families are unenthusiastic about joining a community comprised predominantly of OOB families avoiding their crappy local options. [/quote]

That's not unspoken - IB families have said repeatedly that they do not want to attend a school with lots of OOB students.    That part is true.  And it makes the point - there isn't some conspiracy to keep Hardy as some safety valve for OOB students.  The opposite is true -DCPS is trying to get IB students to attend.   It's just that IB families won't go.[/quote]

Because they know that the OOB numbers will increase right along with the IB numbers.

If DCPS were truly interested in Hardy becoming a predominantly IB school, they would reduce enrollment to give the grass roots IB recruitment effort a shot at succeeding.

The Hardy proposition is a bait-and-switch for IB families.[/quote]

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