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Demographics are not the same. That's a fact. Let's stop here. 
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Let's stop here. Because at Hardy, we tell people who point out uncomfortable truths to STFU. That's already been abundantly pointed out upthread.

Your post about demographics did not contain a single fact.  It was all your speculating. You started with the presumption that there's nothing wrong with the school, it must be the parents.

[b]DCPS doesn't provide information about affluence, but it does about poverty.[/b] For each school it provides the percentage of kids who qualify for free and reduced price meals (FARM). For Key, it's 6%. For Mann it's also 6%. Stoddert it's 14%, Hyde it's 16%.

For Janney it's 4%. Lafayette 7%. Murch 9%. [b]By that standard -- one that relies on objective data, not conjecture -- those three schools are richer than the Hardy feeders.[/b] Yet kids from those schools are flocking to Deal.

You can get facts (not conjecture) about where neighborhood kids go to school: http://edu.codefordc.org/#!/neighborhood/13

If in-boundary families are so averse to public schools, why do so many go to Latin and Basis? It's more than go to Hardy. A few, not many, have the chance to go to Deal, and just about all of them go. Significantly more kids go to Wilson and Walls than all the public middle schools combined. If the neighborhood is so anti-public-school why do so many sit out public for middle but return for high?

I'm sorry, but the theory that it's something about the residents just doesn't hold up. It's not like there's something in the water on the south side of Massachusetts that's missing on the north side. It's the school.[/quote]Wow, I've rarely seen such specious reasoning and coupled with the assertion to [i]use facts[/i]! You presented figures about percentages of kids eligible for FARMS.  A lower percentage of these students -- especially when it's only lower, for example, in the case of Janney, by 2%-12% than the schools IB for Hardy -- does not indicate that the school is wealthier.  It only indicates that it has a higher percentage of students eligible for FARMS.  For all we know, 96% of Janney students could come from middle class families while 84% of the students at Hyde could come from very wealthy families.  Obviously, as we all know, the picture is undoubtedly more complicated than that.

But citing these frankly low percentages of students eligible for FARMS and saying it tells you how wealthy the student body is overall?  Oh man, there's no basis in fact for that assertion. For all I know the rest of your post is accurate but you blew your credibility by calling for facts and then distorting the story the facts actually tell.[/quote]

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