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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". 
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Having observed Hardy for a decade and studied the earlier history, I would say parent dissatisfaction in the feeder schools peaked in about 2009. From 2005 to 2008 the school was moved to the Hamilton Education Campus, over by Gallaudet, and ceased to function as a neighborhood school at all. At the same time, until 2009 it was very easy to get into Deal OOB, so kids who wanted to stay in public for middle school just went to Deal. And Deal was no great shakes at that time, no public middle school in the city was, so a lot of parents just assumed they'd move or go private for middle school.

When the school moved back the principal got very aggressive about keeping the in-boundary families out, much more so than before the move. Then Deal took off, and the OOB slots evaporated there overnight. Things quickly came to a boil: people wanted an in-boundary school, and they wanted it to be as good as Deal.

People still want those things today, but there is a lot more caution today than there was five years ago. It's due to what happened in the last five years. Nobody expected the level of turmoil that resulted from trying to change the school. Hardy has had five principals since 2011. People are still pretty shell-shocked.[/quote]

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