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A PP wrote that someone was posting with an agenda of boosting private school admissions, allegedly afraid of competition from Hardy.  Never mind that private schools in or near Hardy's IB area are well oversubscribed by applicants chasing relatively few seats, and they all have wait lists.  Now someone alleges that questions about Hardy are raised by charter schools afraid of competition from Hardy.  Never mind that the better charter schools -- Latin, etc. -- are oversubscribed in the lottery and are much sought after.

Instead of inventing false conspiracy theories that the St. Albans or Sidwells or Latins are afraid of Hardy, why not focus on those issues that IB parents need to seal the deal and send their kids to Hardy.  What does Deal offer that Hardy doesn't?  Then provide it.  Aim to make Hardy the most rigorous public middle school in DC.  [/quote]

I am the PP you quote - I did not post about private schools, and posted about charters only because someone is posting with a very charter focused agenda, including a ppst to the effect that DCPS shouild not open so many middle schools and all will be underenrolled.

It seems clear to me that the deal is sealed with 34 IB families already, and given the prisoners dilemma dynamic, that alone will seal the deal for many more next year.   That is why this thread was started I believe, because the dynamic is such that that number is crucial now - people ARE willing to send their kids to Hardy but only IF other IB do so as well.  So IB percentage is the crux of the issue, NOT the content of education at Hardy, which is already desirable on its own terms.  I am trying to understand why so many posters seem stuck in a  now obsolete discourse.   [/quote]

34 students out of how many?  What percentage are we talking about after all?[/quote]

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