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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

All you people who are making this crazy distinction between "real IB" and "IB elementary graduates who lotteried in" sound like a bunch of racists.   I'm sorry, but its true.   You may not be racists, but your argument basically boils down to "black kids don't count."

This nonsense about playdates with kids who live close by?  Come on.  Your kid is going to middle school, not kindergarden.    [/quote]

Play the race card, Rev. Al![/quote]

Don't try to insult your way out of this one.   I'm far from Rev. Al - I'm an old white dude from Ward 3 - but even I can see how racist this "IB kids are not IB kids" nonsense looks.[/quote]

So a black family in Spring Valley who doesn't want their kid to go to Hardy is a racist?  LOL.[/quote]

Ha.  Ha.  Your comment is so witty that it almost made me forgot that we should care about the fact that their are real issues beyond "Hardy needs more honors classes" that are keeping IB families from attending.

In the meantime I'm withholding judgement on this mythical family you describe since I do not know what is in their make-believe heart.

Now, can we get back to the issue at hand, king of comedy?

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