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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]

If they all have a good experience I would say we've passed a tipping point. [b]If half of them run screaming for the exits it's back to square one.[/b][/quote]

What's happened in the past?  Do in-boundary resident students from Key, Mann, Stoddert usually stay through 8th grade or do they bail out early?  It seems that the major challenge is to get IB families to enroll at Hardy, in the expectation that the experience  once they are there will be better than the school's (unfair) rep in the community.  So then, having made the leap of faith, what issues cause them to withdraw?[/quote]

I posted about this pages ago, but at this point I can't expect anyone to read the entire thread.

My experience: I had kids at a Hardy feeder for nine years. Every year a few kids would go to Hardy, we would all watch like a hawk for signs of what their experience was. There were a handful of people who would go private no matter what, but most people were really unhappy with our middle school choices and would prefer to send their kids to a neighborhood public school.  My observation is that in the past five years there has been exactly one child from my school who started sixth grade and finished eighth grade at Hardy. Half of the kids from the class of 2013 did not enroll in seventh grade in 2014. Other feeders may be different.

As to the issues that cause them to withdraw, you'd have to talk to the individual families, I'm sure every story is different. As someone who wants Hardy to succeed I would hope the school is conducting exit interviews to find out where they need to raise their game.[/quote]

Similarly, I am a current Hardy IB parent with an intimate knowledge of what is going on at the school.  I posted this several pages ago, which contains actual useful information about how current IB students fare at Hardy - and after Hardy.

"I know just about every IB 8th grader that graduated from Hardy last year - probably about 25 (this includes half a dozen or so kids some commenters on this board would not describe as IB families because they live east of the park and lotteried into Hardy feeders).

These kids are doing great. I'd say about ten ended up at School Without Walls. Another couple ended up at Duke Ellington. About half a dozen ended up at prestigious privates like St. Johns and Sidwell. The rest are attending Wilson - and by all accounts are doing quite well - placing into honors classes, geometry in 9th grade, Spanish II or III, and ottherwise on par with their peers from Deal." [/quote]

This is fine, for the kids who stick it out.  But the question is about IB kids who leave, and why?   Recruitment is important, and so is retention.[/quote]

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