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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]wow, just wow.  the level of privilege and IB vs OOB snobbery is just amazing.  Those of you considering Hardy from your IB homes should be kissing the feet of your OOB friends who put their children in Hardy and kept it alive and well for your princelings to enter when you felt it was now good enough..or when you could no longer afford GDS, NCS etc…..

I am just so amazed by how ridiculous you all sound.[/quote]

Nice try, PP, but you're spewing revisionist history.  The story I've heard is that former Hardy administrators were hostile toward IB families, failed to recruit at feeder schools, and reserved a large number of spots for OOB kids in the lottery every year.  The IB families were discouraged from attending and, as a result, did not enroll their children...what a surprise.[/quote]

"Revisionist history" is overly kind.  It's completely backwards.

Until 1996, Hardy was a nice, small neighborhood middle school, located in a 12-classroom building on Foxhall Road. Amy Carter went there when her dad was president. Then it got moved into the much larger building that it occupies today, the former Gordon Junior High. In 2005 it moved again to Hamilton EC in Northeast. In 2008 it moved back to the old Gordon building. Somewhere along the way the principal was allowed to convert the school into an application-only magnet arts and music program, but on the down-low, the in-boundary folks were never told about it.

It's unfair to ascribe motives, but if you set out to destroy a neighborhood school, those might be the steps you would follow.[/quote]

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