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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, if ALL OOB applicants are accepted at Hardy, then the ENTIRE city already has it as another option.

For all those saying, "I'm zoned for Deal but would go to Hardy." There you are! It is open and ready for you.[/quote]

And if you look at the map of where Hardy kids come from:
http://edu.codefordc.org/#!/school/246

You'll see that very close to zero of them come from within the Deal boundaries. Maybe a handful from Shepherd Park, the map is imprecise. But it's fewer than ten.

Now, there may be some kids who are OOB for Deal but have the right to attend -- Deal is over a third OOB after all -- who opt for Hardy, they wouldn't show  on the map. And it may be that last year was a fluke, that people didn't apply for Hardy because they thought it was hard to get into.

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So you're saying to send a few more high SES kids to Hardy, goose the school test scores and presto!, it's the school everyone wants?!  I don't think so.  You're saying that a few more high performing students determine a school's success.  If that's the case, why not just fire most of the admin and the faculty and give the taxpayers a tax cut?  I don't thin it works that way.  Hardy's problems go a lot deeper than lacking a few more well prepared, high SES students.

This map is kind of amazing. Everyone should see it at least once. Really illustrates the crazy situation we have in DC public education. 
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We have a neighborhood-school based system that's a fiction for all but a few neighborhoods. For three quarters of the kids the reality is we have a city-wide lottery. Middle school is where those realities collide. Two thirds of the kids who go to neighborhood elementary schools get to go to a neighborhood-ish middle school, Deal. The other third find themselves deported to lottery land, and they don't like it there at all. [/quote]

And then there are the neighborhood elementary schools that drew the short straw and are stuck with Hardy, and the neighborhood kids basically don't go there at all.[/quote]

These people didn't draw the short straw - the cut the straw themselves.  All they have to do is send their kids to Hardy and it will be the school they want it to be.  [/quote][/quote]

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