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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do people know which students are IB or OOB? Is there a directory that lists everyone’s address? Are people speculating IB vs OOB based on race? I ask bc we have a low lottery number for Hearst. If offered a spot and we accept, will my 1st grader be ostracized because she lives EOTP? Do kids talk about where they live? Or are there that many parents with free time standing around at drop off speculating?[/quote] Can any current IB parents answer this? How do you know if a student is IB or OOB? Is the information shared or presumed? [/quote]m

It is often presumed by race, which is completely ridiculous and totally unwarranted. Out of Boundary covers a lot of ground: it might be someone on the other side of McLean Gardens, zoned for Eaton, or it might be someone from SE DC who makes a long daily commute in search of what they see as a better education for their child. It’s rude and presumptuous and unfortunately not uncommon for parents to assume that if someone is Black or Latino they “must” be” out of boundary but never make the same assumptions about middle-class where kids. A lot of people showed their asses during the pandemic, that is for sure! [/quote]

This is reckless speculation.  The kids all know where each other live.  Maybe not the kids in PK or K, but the kids all talk and they know who lives nearby and who has to drive or take the bus to school.  Then they talk to their parents and the parents hear about it.  No parent I know is making OOB or IB assumptions based on race.  That is ridiculous.[/quote]

It is definitely presumed by race by some parents.  My kids were OOB for Hearst (we lived EOTP) and we’re white as can be.  A few years ago, the anti-OOB sentiment really got started when the K classes had a lot of in-boundary kids who hadn’t attended for PK so the K class sizes were much larger than expected.  I didn’t have a kid in K at the time, but I was involved in multiple conversations on the playground with parents who assumed I was IB and it was ok to complain about all of those OOB (non-white) kids making their classes overcrowded.

The PP is also 100% correct that a lot more people (or maybe just the same ones who were so upset about the large K classes) showed their true colors last year with the complaints about which kids were given in-person learning seats.  I do think that Hearst has been a great community in some ways, but it was much more inclusive and welcoming back when it was majority-OOB, as others said much earlier in the thread.[/quote]

Yes, that’s when my child started Hearst (K). Absurdly, we’re inbounds, but a mixed-race family. There were/are parents in that class who were so rude to me I was gobsmacked. The real problem parents like that have is with race, OOB is just code.[/quote]

You have misplayed your race card, again.  And it’s getting old.  Its 2021 and most OOB kids are from white HHI families living in $1M homes across the park that are desperate to flee their majority AA neighborhood schools.  And deep down you know this.  The IB families just want their kids to be able to actually physically attend their neighborhood school that is 4 blocks away.  So if anyone has a problem with race, it ain’t the IB families.  OOB is code for white families that refuse to invest in their AA majority neighborhood school or are too cheap to pay for private.  Sorry.  [/quote]

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