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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. Just be graceful and respectful of the OOB families that are still at Hearst. Pronouncements here or, say at a PTA meeting, that everyone needs to be sure to tell the principal how important it is to not take any OOB students sting a little when you are an OOB family.

Everyone sees the writing on the wall and very soon the OOB student at Hearst will be a thing of the past.

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Understood.  Just please know that lots of IB families like the school the way it is now, with a mix both IB and OOB families.  Please don't assume that all IB families want the school to be 100% IB.  There is a reason some of us chose to live IB for Hearst rather than Janney or Lafayette. [/quote]

Guess what? Parents don't get to chose the makeup of the school. IB kids have, and will always have priority. And choosing a school because you loved the fact that it had lots of OOB families is just as obnoxious as saying you chose a school because it didn't have many OOB families. Your attitude is really something.[/quote]

Interesting reaction.  What exactly bothers you about this?  We liked that the school had kids from all over DC.  When we moved in, there weren't many IB families going to the school, which allowed for OOB kids to come in.  We viewed this as a nice thing and figured it would stay that way.  There's nothing we can do about the changes, but it is not something we were hoping for.  How is that obnoxious?  [/quote]

It bothers you that you think an influx of IB kids would somehow affect your child's experience and education in a negative way. And I don't believe you when you say this is about geography. I think that "from all over the city" is a veiled attempt to say "I like my white kid in my white neighborhood to go to school with brown kids. So it's great if the school could keep importing them for me."[/quote]

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