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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Never. Gonna. Happen.

-- Hardy IB family who would love it, but seriously why would any IB Deal family or Deal feeder family be up for this...  [/quote]

I seriously don't get the Hardy IB community.  You have a school fed exclusively by top performing elementary schools.  No dead weight whatsoever and most as hard to get into OOB as Deal feeds. [b] If you just enrolled in boundary you'd have a school superior to Deal [/b]with a much more manageable size.[/quote]

But that means someone's gotta do it first. They gotta keep going to reduce the OOB and thus reduce the brown kids to make it safe for everyone to come on in. You also have a great school in Banneker that no white families look at. DC, neck and neck with Boston for being the most racist liberal city.[/quote]Yep, as the mom of an OOB Hardy grad, the bolded statement is really offensive.  Yeah, if you could just get rid of kids like mine, your school would be sooooo much better.  Nice to know what you think of my child.[/quote]

Poster of the Never comment.  I wasn't throwing shade at Hardy as much as why on earth would the parents of the best well performing school in the city - a majority of whom live close to the school - be willing to disrupt that AND add a commute.  Seriously.

For a long time - for a variety of dynamics that rehash a lot of history - many of inflated and diversionary ones are regularly brought up on DCUM - Hardy has had low IB enrollment.  For families coming from schools with super high scores and lots of amenities (yes, lots supplemented by the PTA) - there is a chicken and egg issue.  Hardy is a good school - but is at a point where they are working through an increasing neighborhood and feeder families along with serving a big population of students from around the city.  And helping all students achieve and succeed.  We are sending our kids there.  [/quote]

A majority of Deal students do not live close to the school. A chunk, maybe but not over 50%. Beck the school is only 60% IB which includes Shepherd, Bancroft, and Lafayette. It does t help to exaggerate numbers when having these discussions.[/quote]

That doesn't change the point.[/quote]

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