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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]@ 1525:  the last few comments about social insecurity and IB parents' reticence to send their kids to Hardy deserve to be in the conversation about "what is wrong with Hardy."  Ironically, the best practical answer here is that there's NOTHING wrong with Hardy; rather, it is the frail self-image of social climbing parents that taints Ward 3's ability to have a fair conversation about the place.[/quote]

How about its 55% FARMs rate:

[quote]Research establishes that most successful schools are those in which the middle class is 
the majority. Success starts turning to failure, it is generally agreed, when the school 
becomes 50% minority or low income. See All Together Now at 39. The Prospects 
studies found that when half a student body is poor, then all students' achievement will be 
depressed, and that when 75% is poor, then all students' achievement will be "seriously" 
depressed. Prospects II at 12. Another expert has concluded that a district with over 60% 
poor children "can no longer rely solely on its own internal efforts" to avoid failure. 
Concentration of Poverty at 133. By comparison, RCSD's 90% poverty configuration 
puts it well beyond even these ominous figures, into a level identified as "extreme 
poverty." Id. at 134.9[/quote]

http://www.prrac.org/pdf/annotated_bibliography_on...hool_poverty_concentration.pdf [/quote]

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