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You're right, PP.  The issue is school quality.  A 55% FARMs middle school is likely to have a detrimental impact on a middle class kid, and family supports will not be enough to compensate:

[url]http://www.prrac.org/pdf/annotated_bibliography_on_school_poverty_concentration.pdf[/url]
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But if more IB students attend, either through more of the existing IB students choosing to attend, as already seems to be the case, or through more new market rate housing with at least 2BRs, that would in itself reduce the % of FARMs.

Note, the old profile gives Hardy a FARMS % if 55.   If the above mentioned claims on IB in the 6th grade are correct, that percentage should already be lower for the 6th grade.
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So, we're back to the grassroots effort: Let's improve Hardy by all agreeing to enroll our IB kids so that we drive the FARMs rate down (mostly by driving out the FARMs kids).

However, since the transformation can't happen overnight, the plan is really more like: Let's sacrifice the educational experiences of IB middle schoolers for some as of yet undetermined number of years so that future IB middle schoolers will have access to a high quality neighborhood middle school.

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Oh, my God, the drama. As if going to a[b] just-okay middle school for three years i[/b]s 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]

The issue apparently is that many IB parents want more than a "just okay middle school" experience for their children.[/quote]

Cutting and pasting from this post with actual information in response this "just okay" stuff.   IB students attending Hardy are doing much better than "just okay."

"Time to inject some reality here - and some good 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." 
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