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[quote=Anonymous]I spoke to Hardy's principal at one of the open houses. Yes, she said explicitly that she was working to reduce the number of OOB kids and to increase the number of IB kids, although she did not mention - at the time - an explicit number. There is only one problem with such statements as many have already pointed out. Today, she limits the number of OOB kids to, say, 15, and 100 families of IB kids initially sign up for Hardy, and 50 kids from OOB are waitlisted. As the months go on, some IB families chicken out and send their kids to private schools or move elsewhere. At that point, the principal goes out and reaches for all the waitlisted OOB kids, and Hardy never becomes a neighborhood school, with all the problems associated with that.

There are a few differences between this year and the previous ones, however.

First, IB families are more upset than ever that their feeder school is not as good as it should be, and across all feeder schools there is a strong movement of parents that say "I will send my kid to Hardy no matter what, and will change this school once and for all".

Second, the principal, maybe because she is new and because she feels the pressure from principals of IB feeder schools, has repeatedly vowed to change things in recent months, and she will have to prove that she is a real leader by acting upon her words in recent months.

Last but not least, many parents (more now than before) have the feeling that they want to give Hardy a try, knowing that, yes, Hardy test scores are low, but, once you control for where kids come from, they are just as good (for your IB kid) as those from Deal (in other words, smart kids do not become stupid once they get into Hardy).[/quote]

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