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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When IB families are polled about what keeps them from enrolling their DCPS ES kids at Hardy, the response is frequently the large number of OOB kids.  [/quote]

Where are links to these so-called polls of IB Hardy families who did not choose Hardy? I think you pulled your "poll results" straight from your own biases. Provide documentation, please. Neither I nor any of my neighbors were ever polled on this subject. If I had been asked, I can assure you that my reason for choosing a different school was NOT the large number of OOB kids at Hardy. In fact, the reasons I did not send my kids to Hardy were:

1. Inadequate foreign language program.
2. Inadequate math program.
3. Disorder in the administration.
4. Toxic environment produced by obnoxious parents on both sides of the Pope debacle.

I am so happy to hear from a current Hardy parent a few posts ago that there has been progress on numbers 3 and 4. When there's similar progress on the academic front, I think you will see more in-boundary families considering Hardy very seriously. And most of us will be perfectly happy to have OB students attend.[/quote]

Well, we're IB and attending a Hardy feeder.  One of the reasons we have chosen not to send our oldest to Hardy is the high OOB enrollment.  The OOB lottery is just that -- a lottery.  While many of the kids who win spots will come well-prepared, many will come ill-prepared.  I don't know what the threshold is, but I am confident that once the number of ill-prepared students reaches a certain threshold, the school's focus turns from enrichment to remediation.  I am also confident that with a high OOB enrollment, the Hardy PTA budget will not come close to the PTA budget of our Hardy feeder.  The PTA at our current school provides a great deal of support.

We will reconsider our decision in the few years when our second gets to MS.  Hopefully the situation at Hardy will improve significantly during that time.
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