Hardy Student #1 in DC Mathcount Competition

[Anonymous]

From the DC Mathcount Facebook page:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02HeEYRLhKzMzhzYSFdUMo6exh2Cjn2XeGipPJxCUQvCY5vRBfvyADep9bE8VL6Aywl&id=949329548436776&m_entstream_source=timeline&__tn__=*s*s-R

1) Hardy DCPS student 👏👏👏
2) GDS student
3) St Alban’s student
4) St Patrick’s student
5) Sidwell student
6) St Alban’s student
7) Sidwell student
8) Sidwell student

The first four students will represent DC at the national competition.

Kudos to the winner!!

[Anonymous]

From another post on the same FB page.

School teams that scored in the top 40%:

1) GDS
2) St Alban’s
3) Sidwell
4) Hardy DCPS
5) Saint Anselm’s
6) Deal DCPS

[Anonymous]

Hardy is better than the Big 5?

[Anonymous]

Awesome! The Facebook post shows a couple of kids from Deal too (further down in the top 25.)

[Anonymous]

Quite possible the winner will be snatched by one of the top privates…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quite possible the winner will be snatched by one of the top privates…

Maybe. But still quite an accomplishment that a public school kid without all the resources of parents paying for a $45k/year private school came out on top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quite possible the winner will be snatched by one of the top privates…

With all the uncertainty regarding MacArthur, won’t be surprised If the kid decamps to one of the privates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quite possible the winner will be snatched by one of the top privates…

Maybe. But still quite an accomplishment that a public school kid without all the resources of parents paying for a $45k/year private school came out on top.

+1

And this kid is clearly talented academically so kudos to them if they get admission to a top private high school as a reward for their accomplishments!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quite possible the winner will be snatched by one of the top privates…

Maybe. But still quite an accomplishment that a public school kid without all the resources of parents paying for a $45k/year private school came out on top.

+1

And this kid is clearly talented academically so kudos to them if they get admission to a top private high school as a reward for their accomplishments!

But it still costs $45K/year! Would be better for all concerned if DCPS invested in nurturing academic talent. Surely this can't be the only kid like this in all of DCPS.

[Anonymous]

A kid who comes out on top at Mathcounts is not there because of anything he learned at Hardy. This is natural talent and/or something fostered outside of school.
Same goes for the kids at STA or Sidwell. They're taking the regular math on-grade level classes like everyone else in the grade. They're more of them because
the school has selective (and probably even more importantly---self-selective) admissions. An hour or two a week in a Mathcounts after-school club does not make
one into a math genius.

Anyway, kudos to all these kids but I don't think you can really credit any of these schools with these accomplishments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A kid who comes out on top at Mathcounts is not there because of anything he learned at Hardy. This is natural talent and/or something fostered outside of school.
Same goes for the kids at STA or Sidwell. They're taking the regular math on-grade level classes like everyone else in the grade. They're more of them because
the school has selective (and probably even more importantly---self-selective) admissions. An hour or two a week in a Mathcounts after-school club does not make
one into a math genius.

Anyway, kudos to all these kids but I don't think you can really credit any of these schools with these accomplishments.

Yes, but maybe the PP's point was that it is remarkable that the kid (and the Deal kids) are in DCPS at all. While an after-school club may not be responsible for their success, retaining them in DCPS would require the administration to help them in class (i.e. accelerated offerings etc.) Hopefully these schools are doing so and will continue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hardy is better than the Big 5?

The big 5 or whatever can’t even all compete bc this is only for dc schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A kid who comes out on top at Mathcounts is not there because of anything he learned at Hardy. This is natural talent and/or something fostered outside of school.
Same goes for the kids at STA or Sidwell. They're taking the regular math on-grade level classes like everyone else in the grade. They're more of them because
the school has selective (and probably even more importantly---self-selective) admissions. An hour or two a week in a Mathcounts after-school club does not make
one into a math genius.

Anyway, kudos to all these kids but I don't think you can really credit any of these schools with these accomplishments.

Yes, but maybe the PP's point was that it is remarkable that the kid (and the Deal kids) are in DCPS at all. While an after-school club may not be responsible for their success, retaining them in DCPS would require the administration to help them in class (i.e. accelerated offerings etc.) Hopefully these schools are doing so and will continue.

Why is this remarkable? Do you have a kid in DCPS? At decently performing schools, there are tons of bright kids. My spouse and I are both intelligent and educated as are our children and they are in DCPS. We make $350k/year and still could never afford private (nor do I want to be part of that community). I went to a public school in the area and have done well. There are a lot of people in DC between poverty and wealth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A kid who comes out on top at Mathcounts is not there because of anything he learned at Hardy. This is natural talent and/or something fostered outside of school.
Same goes for the kids at STA or Sidwell. They're taking the regular math on-grade level classes like everyone else in the grade. They're more of them because
the school has selective (and probably even more importantly---self-selective) admissions. An hour or two a week in a Mathcounts after-school club does not make
one into a math genius.

Anyway, kudos to all these kids but I don't think you can really credit any of these schools with these accomplishments.

Yes, but maybe the PP's point was that it is remarkable that the kid (and the Deal kids) are in DCPS at all. While an after-school club may not be responsible for their success, retaining them in DCPS would require the administration to help them in class (i.e. accelerated offerings etc.) Hopefully these schools are doing so and will continue.

Why is this remarkable? Do you have a kid in DCPS? At decently performing schools, there are tons of bright kids. My spouse and I are both intelligent and educated as are our children and they are in DCPS. We make $350k/year and still could never afford private (nor do I want to be part of that community). I went to a public school in the area and have done well. There are a lot of people in DC between poverty and wealth.

$350,000 per year and you can't afford private school? GTFO. I understand that you prefer public school for a variety of reasons, but, the reality is that you could afford it if you wanted to. This is a budgeting issue. Not an income issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy is better than the Big 5?

The big 5 or whatever can’t even all compete bc this is only for dc schools

Mathcounts is for all schools. The big 3/5 whatever schools count towards representing DC, even if the kids actually live in VA/MD. MD and VA and other states have their own Mathcounts competitions and four kids go to the Nationals.