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Hardy is NOT 8% IB-Hardy's 6th grade has 34 INB and another 15 or so OOB from IB Feeders, which makes the IB for 6th grader around 25-40% depending on what you consider OOB kids from IB feeders as. [/quote]

Yes, but it seems that everyone would agree that it's silly to consider OOB resident students who come up through a feeder school as "in boundaries."  Of course, they're pretty likely to stay in the system.  The whole issue is how to attract in boundary residents who historically have refused to attend their "neighborhood" middle school.[/quote]

Eaton parent here.

I think it's great news if students from a feeder school continue onto Hardy, regardless of where they live. It's about solid elementary school preparation not about address. It would be great if larger cohorts of kids who have come through elementary school together with a similar educational background move up to MS to continue together. Makes perfect sense to me.

Seems to me that the "real" IB crowd will never be satisfied.  If it's all about addresses, they really won't like the Eaton crowd either even though our kids are well prepared and have great test scores-too many zip codes in our directory.  [/quote]

I respectfully disagree.  For one thing, many OOB students in Ward 2/Ward 3 feeders (and if they go on to Hardy) are grateful for their good fortune because they realize that their IB alternatives are of much lesser quality.  Since you mention Eaton, some believe this is one reason why they decided to move Eaton to Hardy because many in the majority OOB population would not object too loudly.  For an IB population that had expected Deal to be available (because  Eaton fed there for decades if not longer), Hardy is seen as a step down.

Also, it would be great if you could take at risk kids and put them into a good elementary school and expect by grade 5 that they are all performing at grade level.  Unfortunately in the real world that assumption is not always correct.[/quote]

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