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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So  - we got an IB charter school parent complaining hardy is not good enough for the IB families, vs someone arguing it should not be for IB families.

In a thread asking HOW MANY IB are actually going - and the data we have so far - the best till count day - indicates a big increase in IB families (by either definition) - Hardy is well on its way to overcoming the prisoners' dilemma.

Do arguments always lag data?  Is it that people get stuck in modes of arguing?

Who will be more unhappy when Hardy has flipped - the folks defending the idea that Hardy is "meant" to be a mostly OOB school, or the charter families defending their decision? [/quote]

IB charter parent here.  I will be very happy if/when Hardy flips.  Our younger DC could attend the new and improved Hardy if the change is fast enough.

Even if Hardy doesn't flip in time for younger DC, a new and improved Hardy would probably increase the value of our house.[/quote]

Unlikely.  Parts of the catchment are too wealthy to ever consider Hardy.  They either don't have children or their children attend private school.  Whatever is left would be better served at Latin/Basis/DCI.

The demographics are staring you in the face and laughing.  The real estate around Hardy is simply too expensive for the kind of young families that chose public middle schools.  [/quote]

Maybe the best solution is to let Hardy fulfill its desire to be the DC-wide magnet arts middle school, with a pipeline to Ellington.  Then move the general academic track middle school back to an expanded, modernized on Foxhall Rd. where it once .  That way, you avoid the political football of having three general purpose middle schools WOTP yet serve what are clearly identified needs.[/quote]

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