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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question has never been "how many feeder kids are attending Hard."  The question has always been "how many IB kids are attending Hardy."

I am sure it changing.  It has years to go before it is a Deal but it is a great little school where plenty of kids do well.

I don't understand why people can't just answer that question.[/quote]

It's the wrong question, so stop asking it instead of wondering why people don't always answer it. (For the record, it has been answered earlier. People rejected that answer as provisional, but given the latest numbers posted from the principal's mouth, those numbers should be viewed as solid at this point.)

If you care about academic preparation, feeder matters not IB.

--IB (Mann, in case that matters in some strange way). [/quote]

We're IB and think it's useful to know both numbers - but I also really am focused on the academic quality at the end of the day.  Principal Pride is obviously trying to change the conversation to feeders to get the focus on the #s of kids coming in from the higher-performing elementary schools and the attraction of cohorts of kids coming together from schools which helps retain a continuity/community for them.   From what she said, it's likely that the technically IB kids are probably closer to 20-25% for this year's sixth graders (given the high %s of OOB at Hyde and about 20% of Stoddert is OOB also).  When the profiles are posted, there will be the overall IB #s for the school for all three grades.

It was a really big deal to draw a base crew of 5 kids from Key and 6 from Mann this year (vs. ones or twos in the past) - and many parents are watching carefully from those neighborhoods to see how it goes. And, the info about 10 kids coming from Brent (PP said it was 10) is also interesting & would be helpful to know if that's a new trend, b/c as others have noted in the thread, it may also be signaling a rising trend of more parents with high-achieving kids on Hill etc seeing Hardy as an option - which would also start impacting the academic level of the school.

It is obviously also undeniable that many are looking at the technical IB numbers, since IB families reflect the socio-economics of the neighborhoods, and there's no question that affluence and academic levels of parents often have a strong relationship to kids' academic performance.  But PP seems to have a sensible working and realistic strategy for moving forward form where things stand today.  One huge selling point to me is the smaller size of Hardy vs. Deal -- literally 1/3 the size (and Deal is scheduled to keep growing) - it may mean some degree of fewer activities or other things for kids, but at such a big school only a portion of kids are accessing those anyway.

[/quote]Don't know what Hardy's been like in recent years but just wanted to add (for the historical record) that back when my kid attended, there was a sizeable group of OOB kids from the hill with educated parents. In fact, the folks from the Hill were pretty strong in the PTA. Maybe once Rhee threw the school into turmoil by removing Pope and maybe once there were charter school options, that changed.  So maybe Hill families are coming back to Hardy but we were there before. [/quote]

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