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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I hate to tell you the same is true at Deal.  There is a sizable cohort that have academic & social needs that are not perfectly delt with.  Deal is not perfect & has a number of issues.   However both Hardy & Deal have solid administrators that are capable of creating a place many percentiles of kids can learn.[/quote]

This may be true but the general perception in upper NW is that Deal is a decent middle school while Hardy is not.[/quote]

No the general perception is that Hardy has too many brown kids while Deal does not (oh and uniforms).[/quote]

Deal has a very significant minority population, just like Hardy.  Yet IB parents push to send their kids there.

If Hardy were smart they would get rid of the uniforms.  Many see public school uniforms as emblematic of a troubled inner-city school.[/quote]

Keep telling yourself that. Deal has 536 white students, Hardy has 40. It's not just the uniforms. White folks west and east of the park clamor to get into Latin.[/quote]

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