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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a very angry, militant teacher (who’s still at Hardy, by the way) who was the most vocal ringleader against Rhee’s reforms and was particularly hostile to the notion that Hardy should change to attract more IB students.   That teacher would have lasted about a New York minute under Dr. Kim.  :)[/quote]

You again??? I guess the "bash Hardy" threads finally died out, so you're here on a Wilson/Melissa Kim thread because, I don't know...you're bored? It's weird how you have this fascination with this teacher at Hardy. My guess is that you haven't had a kid at Hardy for at  least 5 years. My kid is there now and doing great. Do you have anything else to add to the conversation other than this tired fascination? [/quote]

Can someone explain why IB parents avoid Hardy like a pile of doggie doo-doo that has sat out in the hot July sun?[/quote]

As explained above.  They are horribly embarrassed by the failure of their misplaced grab for glory with Michelle Rhee. Their only recourse is to diss Hardy until the end of time.

It's psychologically difficult to fall from the heights of self-perceived champions of neighborhood public schools led by a glorified national heroine to the depths of being perceived as petty self-interested parents, cruelly misled and abandoned by the now fallen heroine.

Denial is a much easier course.[/quote]

sorry but this explanation does not hold water, it actually sounds ridiculous.  the Michelle Rhee thing happened when? 2009? 2010? Hardy has 15% IB, compared to 70% IB for Deal today, and rising 6th graders were in early elementary school years at that time.  the idea that parents how shell out 30K a year or go charter just because they are in denial is silly. I think the reasons are complex. Hardy covers some wealthy areas and a lot of those parents would send their kids to private anyway (see Mann), especially for middle and high school, and there is not much DCPS can do about it.  test scores seems pretty good to me (although the ones at Deal are remarkably better), and the fact that the school has only about 300 students is certainly an advantage over Deal.  there must be other reasons and finding what they are seems to me more productive than simply saying that IB parents sending their kids elsewhere are dumb.  [/quote]

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