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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]25% of last year's Mann's 5th grade are at Hardy this year.

So Mann is already on board.[/quote]

There you go! [/quote]

6 kids?[/quote]

A) Yes, 6 kids. But this is still 25% of last year's 5th grade cohort. What would you expect? From 0% to 100%  ? I think that a jump from 0% to 25% after just one year of Ms Pride's era is a great success.

B) True that several students left the school after 4th grade. But when you talk to them (siblings are still at M.), you just realize that a good share of the families (which on average have $$ millions in wealth,  just see the median price of houses in Wesley Heights and Spring Valley)  left in 4th grade because parents we uncomfortable with the idea of one entire 5th grade year in a 20 x 20 feet trailer, with no toilet (toilet is actually inside the trailers, but kids do not use it because due to poor insulation and being nested inside such a small space, they say you hear and smell everything).

Everybody knows (and it's already been included in next year's programming) that just with the new building, the 5th grade retention will increase by more than 50%.

This is to say that exodus from Mann in 4th grade (cutting in half the school population) is only partially a brain drain for what were considered as "better" private/charter schools. It is also due to a significant "trailer drain" of families who do not see their kids spending one year in a claustrophobic trailer, where you get wet if you need to reach the main building to pee when it rains.

With two 5th grade classes, academic year 2016-2017 will see a larger than ever wave of Mann students to Hardy.
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So your point is that Mann numbers are bound to go up because students who would not have been interested in Hardy are leaving Mann early because they are trailer-averse?[/quote]

Almost . See also 16:19 (not me).  Mann 5th grade numbers are bound to go up because trailer-averse families will stay. Among these families, some will end up considering Hardy, which they would have not had they left at the end of 4th grade. [/quote]

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