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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My neighborhood was routed out of Wilson's boundary. I hope Hardy keeps enough OOB seats that my kid can get in there someday. Not sure what everyone's so afraid of--folks that have enough academic ambitions for their kids to enroll in the lottery and get kids over to Hardy each day are by and large going to be just fine. My kid has two parents (with three graduate degrees between them) at home, plenty of books and extracurriculars, and decent behavior. [b]Just because we can't afford to live in upper NW doesn't mean your kid will be damaged by associating with us. [/b] Why should DCPS maintain a giant building for the 50 in-bounds kids attending Hardy? Be careful what you wish for--with fewer OOB kids, it would be easy for DCPS to decide the school is underenrolled, send the couple dozen IB kids to Francis-Stevens instead, and poof! You've got a Cardozo feed.[/quote]You're so rational, pp! My kid was a similar OOB student and it feels so odd to have some posters imply that a large OOB population is a threat to their children's education![/quote]

The reality, PPs, is that not all OOB kids are as prepared and have as much support at home as your kids.[/quote]

But most of the Hardy OOB students are prepared and do well. So where's the beef?[/quote]

As has been demonstrated on a different thread, if you are satisfied with your kid scoring proficient on the DCCAS, there's no beef,[/quote]

First, there is no more DCCAS. Second, my kid won't score sufficient. My kid is advanced and as shown on other threads, many high SES kids score advanced on testing. Being around brown kids is not going to make my advanced kid perform worse. In fact, he may have better experience than his future school (Deal) being that Hardy is smaller.[/quote]

As was shown on the other thread, many white (and presumably high SES) kids at Hardy only scored proficient on the DCCAS in the past.

I get it.  Your kids do not fall into that group. Congratulations.

However, many white kids do fall into that group.  Their parents have been getting their DCCAS scores in the mail and are apparently satisfies with proficient.[/quote]

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