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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's interesting that a few years ago Hardy almost became the Coretta Scott King middle school of the arts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082001476.html[/quote]

Back then Hardy was on a fast-track to becoming a city-wide magnet arts middle school -- an Ellington feeder. Things might have actually worked out better if that effort had been successful and the pretext of a neighborhood school had been dropped. Then DCPS would have had to do something for the in-boundary families, and everyone would have been happy.[/quote]

Math is hard for you.

There aren't enough IB families to justify building a brand new MS (or resurrecting a zombie one) in Ward 2.  Either go to Hardy, go to Latin/Basis/DCI, go private, or move.  There will be no "Special Snowflake MS" WOTP.  Get used to it.[/quote]

No, PP.  Math is hard for you.

There are enough IB families to fill an new MS in Ward 2.  They're just not interested in sending their kids to a "good enough" city-wide pseudo-magnet arts school masquerading as a neighborhood school to prove the point.

The IB numbers at Hardy are edging up.  Hardy has a reasonable shot at being 70 to 80% IB in the next few years.

If the IB takeover of Hardy should fail, IB families will enlist their aid of their ANCs and councilmember to change DCPS policy at Hardy or to open a new MS.  (Remember Mary Cheh's proposal a few years back?)

Either way, IB families will get a neighborhood "Special Snowflake" MS WOTP.
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It's [i]scary[/i] how hard this is for you.

The reality is that as long as Hardy isn't full of IB kids, there is no justification for a new MS WotP.  It. won't. happen.

Mary Cheh can propose all the legislation she wants but she's not the Mayor, never will be, and the rest of DC doesn't look like Ward 3.  Try to imagine ANY other councilmember having to face his/her voters after supporting a vote for a new MS WotP.  If you don't realize it's impossible, then you're not imagining hard enough.

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You didn't read my post very well, PP.  The "Special Snowflake" MS WOTP will in all likelihood be Hardy itself.  However, should DCPS insist on keeping it's city-wide pseudo-magnet arts MS program at Hardy, then they will have to build a new "Special Snowflake" MS somewhere else.

Running a city-wide pseudo-magnet arts program out of the Hardy building and calling it a neighborhood school is getting old.[/quote]

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