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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard that about 8 students from Key went to Hardy this year.[/quote]

I heard four sixth graders who attended Key last year, plus two new eighth graders who moved IB for Key this year.  I hope they all have a good experience.[/quote]

2 key grads from the current 7th grade cohort attended. One left after 6th.[/quote]

I want to comment on this.

There is an oft-repeated claim that parents in the IB schools wouldn't consider Hardy no matter what. I put three kids through a Hardy feeder, and I can tell you people desperately wanted to send their kids to public middle school, and the state of Hardy was a constant source of discussion whenever parents got together.  Every year my school would send a small number of kids to Hardy, and those kids were the object of intense observation: everyone wanted to know how it was working out for them, hoping that maybe this would be the year it worked out. It seemed like every parent in the school knew who those kids were and how it was going for them. Sadly, very few of those kids made it through Hardy, and a shockingly high percentage left partway through sixth grade. While my school sends a few kids to Hardy each year, I'm pretty sure only one has completed eighth grade in the past five years.

The back-and-forth above reinforces my observation. Everyone knows who went to Hardy, and what happened to them, because it's something they care about.

The biggest thing Hardy could do to attract in-boundary families would be to retain the ones who decide to attend for sixth grade. [/quote]

Why do they leave? And where do they go? [/quote]

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