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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still also don't get tho are they going to hold the enrollment at Deal down the slots 'saved' by moving the Eaton kids to Hardy - or are they just going to fill up to capacity and then still have those kids at Hardy, which will be filled to capacity too.  Isn't that just making more room for additional OOB at Deal (but presumably lower OOB at Hardy I guess)?[/quote]

Politically and socially/racially, DCPS has to maintain strong OOB levels in WOTP schools.  Discussion over.[/quote]

Nah, not over. And when those WOTP schools become overcrowded with IB students alone, what then?[/quote]

They will almost certainly still find a way to have a significant OOB population.  Wilson is by far DC's best performing high school.  It will be politically untenable for it to become virtually exclusively rich and almost entirely white.  It seems like some who have moved into UNW recently do not understand where the political power base in this city resides.  While demographics in the city are changing, it will be a very long time before, if ever, city hall is focused on the concerns of UNW/the DCUM crowd over other segments of the city.

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But what is the impact on Deal of moving Eaton - does it actually allievate any of the overcrowding?[/quote]

No, but it helps Hardy by building a larger cohort of higher SES students. For what it's worth, my child is in 6th grade at Hardy this year after attending our IB feeder since PK and we are having a really good year. [/quote]

But it doesn't help these kids to go from the top DC middle school to an also-ran, particularly when DCPS continues to cram OOB students into Deal.  I suppose that's some downtown bureaucrat's misguided notion of "social justice."   :shock: [/quote]

Granting this was ridiculous.  So granting that & moving on, ...  Hardy is really small -- so I guess if even 30-40 of the 70+ 5th graders from Eaton go to Hardy next year, they would constitute 24-30% of Hardy's 6th grade class.  Stoddert is expected to send closer to 40 next year.  Combined that would make up 45-60 percent of Hardy's 6th grade.  Add in 10-15 each from Mann, Key and Hyde (and Mann may have more) - you're up to 68-85%ish percent of Hardy's 6th grade... and it does start looking demographically Deal-like...[/quote]

So if the demographics catch up, will Hardy's program and faculty catch up as well?  Or doesn't that matter?[/quote]

The faculty is fine. They can teach your kids as well as kids from other parts of the city.

What “programming” are you seeking? Keep in mind a school of 360-400 kids can’t support the level of extracurriculars as a school of 1000+.[/quote]

Thank you PP. The teaching staff at Hardy is terrific. My child is learning a lot and takes honors math and ELA. My child’s schedule is jammed packed as is so I’m not sure what other extra curriculars he’d have time to take. It’s great that Deal has a million clubs, but that’s out of necessity in trying to keep 1600 (?!??) students engaged. We are very happy with our experience thus far. Plus, for those who don’t look beyond test scores, last week, Hardy was recognized for the most growth in first quarter assessments compared to last year and for its top math scores on nearly every standard compared to all other public middle schools in DC. [/quote]

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