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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]wow, just wow.  the level of privilege and IB vs OOB snobbery is just amazing.  Those of you considering Hardy from your IB homes should be kissing the feet of your OOB friends who put their children in Hardy and kept it alive and well for your princelings to enter when you felt it was now good enough..or when you could no longer afford GDS, NCS etc…..

I am just so amazed by how ridiculous you all sound.[/quote]

Nice try, PP, but you're spewing revisionist history.  The story I've heard is that former Hardy administrators were hostile toward IB families, failed to recruit at feeder schools, and reserved a large number of spots for OOB kids in the lottery every year.  The IB families were discouraged from attending and, as a result, did not enroll their children...what a surprise.[/quote]

"Revisionist history" is overly kind.  It's completely backwards.

Until 1996, Hardy was a nice, small neighborhood middle school, located in a 12-classroom building on Foxhall Road. Amy Carter went there when her dad was president. Then it got moved into the much larger building that it occupies today, the former Gordon Junior High. In 2005 it moved again to Hamilton EC in Northeast. In 2008 it moved back to the old Gordon building. Somewhere along the way the principal was allowed to convert the school into an[b] application-only magnet arts and music program[/b], but on the down-low, the in-boundary folks were never told about it.

It's unfair to ascribe motives, but if you set out to destroy a neighborhood school, those might be the steps you would follow.[/quote]

This is false.  It was not an application-only school. As I understand it, the arts focus (which required filling out an application) was put into place about the same time the lottery was initiated. I don't know if this is accurate but I always assumed it was so the administration did not have to accept a disruptive student who got a lottery spot.   Before the lottery, principals had control over which OOB kids were allowed to attend.   After the lottery, principals lost that control and my assumption (which granted could be wrong so take it with a grain of salt) was that the application was a way of controlling which OOB kids could attend.  IB students always had the right to attend but the impression I got (again, this could be wrong) was that the IB families didn't like the fact that Pope didn't fawn all over them.

The ironic thing was that Pope ran a tight ship which is something the IB families should have appreciated.  Rhee removed Pope just after the school moved back to the Wisconsin ave building and expanded.  As I understand it, the expansion brought in a lot more new OOB students which was quite a change for the school and the one person you would want to have in charge would have been Patrick Pope.  But then Rhee was a short-sighted manager and was unable to grasp that.

Again, this is speculation on my part - but so are half of the statements on this thread. They're just not being labeled as such.[/quote]

Curious use of words...
"As I understand it"
"I don't know if this is accurate"
"I always assumed"
"my assumption (which granted could be wrong so take it with a grain of salt)"
"the impression I got (again, this could be wrong)"
"As I understand it"
"this is speculation on my part"

Despite these qualifiers, you lead with "This is false." Are you kidding me? I have no idea if any of what you say is correct, but neither do you. Clearly. If you know nothing, admit you know nothing and stay out. Or, failing that, refrain from declarations like "This is false." only to subsequently undermine every aspect of that claim.

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