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Here's a thought:  Since the Hardy building is huge, perhaps DCPS should run two schools in one building -- Hardy IB and Hardy OOB.  Hardy IB will consist of only IB kids and kids from Hardy feeders, while Hardy OOB will be open to all of DC via lottery.  The IB and OOB kids would not take classes together or participate in extracurriculars together.  They share the building have almost no interaction. 
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I think this is a great idea.  Except that we should also - obviously - let the white OOB families mix with the IB students.    That way we are at least being clear and honest about the discriminatory goals of this "Two Hardy" plan.[/quote]

You're right, PP.  There is a certain discriminatory intent to the "Two Hardy" plan.  However, it is not discrimination by race, but rather by class.

If all of DC's poor black population were replaced with poor whites, IB families would still want a Hardy that is predominantly IB.  The vast majority of the (white) OOB students would be poor, and research has demonstrated middle-class kids who attend schools with high concentrations of poverty suffer for it:

[quote]There is a robust literature on the impact of school-based poverty concentration on
academic achievement. In the first major study on the topic since the 1966 Coleman
Report, Mary Kennedy in 1986 found that [b]the relationship between school poverty
concentrations and student achievement averages is stronger than the relationship
between family poverty status and student achievement[/b].1 Kennedy reported that nonpoor
students attending schools with high concentrations of poverty are more likely to
fall behind than are poor students who attend schools with low concentrations of
poverty.2 Numerous studies substantiate Kennedy’s findings;3 and at this point there is no
question that school poverty concentration has a detrimental impact on student
achievement.[/quote]

[url]http://www.prrac.org/pdf/annotated_bibliography_on_school_poverty_concentration.pdf[/url]

In other words, rich families can't undo the effects of sending their kids to schools where most of the kids are poor. That's why so many opt for private school.

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