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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the end of the day, it's always about class and socio-economics. White folks are fine sending their kids to schools with majority Black and Hispanic students as long as those students come from middle class homes. No one want to have too many "poors" at their school. This is not rocket science. [/quote]

Absolutely correct.   Diagnosing the problem is not hard.  Fixing it is - unless you think the solution is to ban poor kids from attending Hardy.

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Fixing it is easy:  the parent cohorts at each feeder school need to agree among themselves to send their kids to Hardy.  Voila.  Test scores go up immediately.  Advanced course participation rises immediately.  Problem solved.[/quote]

Good luck.   I've experienced this.  What will happen is that this group of parents will all look each other right in the eye, promise they are going to Hardy, then run off and secretly apply to privates and charters and buy houses in the suburbs or in the Deal district.  A couple of parents who are saps will be left holding the bag.[/quote]

Exactly.  That fix won't work.

The fix that will work is to cut enrollment until about 70 to 80% of the seats are filled by IB families who want to to enroll in the 6th grade TODAY.   Then, for every 7 or 8 more IB kids who enroll, admit another 2 or 3 OOB kids.

It's foolish to set enrollment at 300 kids and expect a grassroots campaign among IB families to bring IB enrollment to 70 to 80%.[/quote]

Nah, I disagree.  The only thing that matters is 6th grade, and the # of IB students in 6th grade -- not the IB percentage of the entire school.  That can only change in time.  But if you get up to 50% IB enrollment in 6th grade, most Ward 3 parents would be happy with that.  You don't need that many parents to agree to board the Hardy 6th grade ship to reach that %.[/quote]

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