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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IB feeder parent here.  I do not know a single parent who cares at all about the uniforms.  The current IB parents with kids attending Hardy do not care about uniforms (which is why it hasn't been pushed compared to say - honors algebra or Mandarin).  I know all of them care about how a Hardy experience would compare against other possible options (Latin, Basis, privates, moving elsewhere).  Mostly based on academics and on social/happiness.  The 10 Stoddert and 10 Mann and 5 Key (and others?) that are in the current 6th grade class are just like most of the parents I know, but with increased willingness to be 'early adopters' than most in the neighborhood.   [/quote]

But isn't it obvious that if the uniforms were a big deal they wouldn't have chosen Hardy? Aren't the people to ask not the 25 families who chose Hardy, but the hundreds of families with kids in that age cohort who started at a feeder but left the system? Five years ago Key had 100 kindergarteners, 95 of them left. Where did they go and why?

My point isn't about uniforms per se but about the greater challenge of making Hardy a neighborhood school.[/quote]

Uniforms aside (or maybe not), you make a very, very good point about it being more important to understand the opinions of the parents of the 95 versus the 5. There will always be some early adopters, but it would be great to somehow do exit interviews for the 95 percent who avoid Hardy. The Key parents I know and have known are doing well but are not stratospherically rich. They would send their kids to public MS in a heartbeat if they felt that they could (indeed some have found or are seeking a path to Deal).  
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+1  Another Key family here who would love to send kids to public MS.  Around 15+ of those kids are at Basis or Latin (with uniforms) & at least 5 at Deal.  Maybe a couple parents care a tiny bit about uniforms - but not much.  1/3 of the around 60 kids who are enrolled in 4th grade leave before 5th (not sure if there really were 100 K kids in 2010 - there are about 75 currently & it's considered a 'huge' enrollment year) - there's a loop where families scramble to figure out MS in 4th grade - and in the recent past Hardy hadn't been viewed as a viable option.  So, 1/3 of the kids enrolled at Key do end up going to a DC public school.  [/quote]

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