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Oh, my God, the drama. As if going to a just-okay middle school for three years is going to doom your child forever. You think your kid won't be able to keep up with the Deal kids once they all wind up at Wilson together? Have a little faith in yourself and your children. You can overcome this dreadful setback![/quote]

Is that really true, though?

How many IB Hardy kids place into the advanced classes at Wilson?  How many IB Deal kids place in?

DCPS does not publish IB/OOB breakdowns for the DC CAS.  However, vast majority of the white kids at both schools are probably IB, so let's use them as a proxy for IB:

74% of the white kids at Deal scored advanced in math on the DC CAS last year, but only 46% of the white kids at Hardy did.

52% of the white kids at Deal scored advance in reading on the DC CAS last year, but only 29% of the white kids at Hardy did.

Research suggests that sending middle class kids to high-poverty schools has a deleterious effect on the educational outcomes of those middle class kids, and the DC CAS results for Hardy appear to bear this out.[/quote]

[b]Time to inject some reality here - and some god news for parents of IB families that decide to send their kids to Hardy.

I know just about every IB 8th grader that graduated from Hardy last year - probably about 25 (this includes half a dozen or so kids some commenters on this board would not describe as IB families because they live east of the park and lotteried into Hardy feeders).

These kids are doing great.  I'd say about ten ended up at School Without Walls.  Another couple ended up at Duke Ellington.   About half a dozen ended up at prestigious privates like St. Johns and Sidwell.   The rest are attending Wilson - and by all accounts are doing quite well  - placing into honors classes, geometry in 9th grade, Spanish II or III, and ottherwise on par with their peers from Deal.

So no, your IB kids who go to Hardy will do just fine thank you very much[/b].[/quote]

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