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Any thoughts on the Wash Post/Bill Turque article on Hardy MS on the schools insider website??
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Anonymous
| Fights at Hardy???? I would expect this of maybe Francis Junior High students, but not Hardy or Deal!!1 |
Anonymous
| Can you post a link? |
Anonymous
| I am not a Hardy parent, although someday I might like to be one. I have been at the school during the school day and my sense is that it is under control. I've been to a few DCPS middle schools and Hardy, from my perspective is doing a great job. |
Anonymous
| Kids will be kids regardless of where they are. How many people have grown up in an urban city and not been in a fight or two? |
Anonymous
Me? And probably a lot of middle-class girls? |
Anonymous
| The real question is: why does this writer continually dig up drama related to Hardy. I read this as the beginning of a campaign to advocate for re-assigning Pope to Hardy (and to dredge up class/race tensions in the process). Thoughts? |
Anonymous
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Because it's a dependable story when bumping up against a deadline. I thought it was pretty telling that most of the parents, students, and teachers interviewed who didn't have an explicit anti-Rhee agenda said, basically, "Everything's fine. Like the new principal. Don't know what the fuss is all about."
Meanwhile, the folks with an axe to grind will always deliver some punchy quotes. |
Anonymous
Maybe because there IS drama at Hardy? I don't think one needs to dig much. As a DCPS parent of elementary aged kids approaching middle school age I was glad for the follow-up after last winter/spring changes at Hardy. I was keenly interested to know if the administration change has resulted in the changes it was engineered for. I was also interested to know if the conflict at the school has left a lasting rift in the Hardy school community. The article in the Post at least tried to answer these questions for me. I think it was newsworthy and approriate. The reporter certainly isn't trying to affect the situation one way or another as you are maybe suggesting? Why would he care? |
Anonymous
and people with a different agenda will try to minimize the importance of reactions from people those agenda they do not share. They might even concoct reasons for why a journalist would write such a story. |
Anonymous
Oh come on! Most of the mean girls are from the middle class |
Anonymous
| I think the WP writer had a good point. Pope was very well-liked and successful. Rhee didn't like him because he was making the school a great place for mostly black kids. Rhee was working to try to get some of the neighborhood G'town kids/parents to consider public vs. fleeing for the privates. |
Anonymous
| This is hardly an issue at Hardy. Has anyone discussed the gang problem at Eliot-Hines? Where the children of Eliot-Hines are saying that they are being bullied by the "muslim gang" in the school. Okay, Bill get over-there an investigate. |
Anonymous
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Good points 14:42. I thought it was an intetesting postscript to Rhee's departure. Perhaps a sign of things to come from Gray and Henderson style. Show sympathy courteously, but move forward with less drama.
What was concerning was lack of exploration of the one principal, 2 schools, hybrid neighborhood structure. Oyster-Adams has had issues with this even though it's a merged school with a language requirement even for in boundary after 2nd grade. How viable is the hybrid approach? Do other school districts have this at elementary level? If there is a music magnet middle school in a couple of years, would students at Hyde and other feeders get some kind of preference? Seems like a little bit of a bait and switch to get a new building but lose such a unique program. Bottom line. Would in boundary families be clamoring to get in if it was a regular school with a nice building? |
Anonymous
| Look assigning a bunch of wet behind the ears administrators to a middle school with an elementary principal that's present 50% of the time is a recipe for disaster. Pope didn't make the school good for black kids he made the school work for all students. No one prevented the Georgetown folks from applying. Most of the people out at Key were blowing smoke up Rhee's bottom. They were bound for private regardless. Pope should be reinstated and help get the situation under control. A mistake is a mistake. It ruined the Fenty administration let's not ruin the school. Sooner or later no one will apply to the school. |