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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Such a lottery wouldn't be popular because it would be counter-productive and stupid.  The reality of what it might accomplish only supports this evaluation.

Hardy is an example of what could be done better to create more high-performing schools in the future:  for many years, the in-boundary students around Hardy were not numerous enough to provide balance for the larger numbers of lower-performing, OOB students; hence IB parents fled a low-performing situation.  In the future, DCPS should be mindful that a majority of students at the school need to be performing at grade level, from the very beginning, in order for it to be a magnet for success over future years.[/quote]

"Not numerous enough" wasn't the problem. I had three kids in a Hardy feeder preK through fifth. My oldest child's cohort had four classes of twenty-five at kindergarten. Two of those kids ended up going to Hardy for sixth (and neither made it to eighth grade). Without going into the reasons, the school wasn't attractive, the parents voted with their feet. Hardy has gotten much more attractive in the past few years.  [/quote]

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