So how many IB are going to really be at Hardy?

[Anonymous]

So the city is going to build a small school just to cater to IB families who don't want to go to school with OOB families? That is a crazy idea!

[Anonymous]

The IB parents who would like to go to Hardy, all the feeder elementaries, should start a group and meet frequently and come up with a proposal, and approach the principal and DCPS. It is ridiculous if the school is not serving the IB community. DCPS cannot build another school, but the existing school needs to make en effort to have all the IB families go, that should be a school's priority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The IB parents who would like to go to Hardy, all the feeder elementaries, should start a group and meet frequently and come up with a proposal, and approach the principal and DCPS. It is ridiculous if the school is not serving the IB community. DCPS cannot build another school, but the existing school needs to make en effort to have all the IB families go, that should be a school's priority.

Yes, the principal should go door-to-door and get down on one knee and beg the IB families to enroll.

[Anonymous]

The post said the IB families should do the work of meeting in the middle, but you must an OOB family wanting to preserve OOB access to the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the city is going to build a small school just to cater to IB families who don't want to go to school with OOB families? That is a crazy idea!

We proposed reducing enrollment at Hardy so that it could reach majority IB enrollment quickly, but that was a crazy idea as well.

The abbreviated version of this thread: Any proposal that results in a majority IB school for the families zoned for Hardy in the next few years is a crazy idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The IB parents who would like to go to Hardy, all the feeder elementaries, should start a group and meet frequently and come up with a proposal, and approach the principal and DCPS. It is ridiculous if the school is not serving the IB community. DCPS cannot build another school, but the existing school needs to make en effort to have all the IB families go, that should be a school's priority.

Yes, the principal should go door-to-door and get down on one knee and beg the IB families to enroll.

Don't worry. That ship has sailed. The principal didn't even both showing up for the Hardy info session at Mann this year. The OOB spots are safe.

Except for a token few, IB kids will keep going to privates or to charters like Latin and BASIS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The IB parents who would like to go to Hardy, all the feeder elementaries, should start a group and meet frequently and come up with a proposal, and approach the principal and DCPS. It is ridiculous if the school is not serving the IB community. DCPS cannot build another school, but the existing school needs to make en effort to have all the IB families go, that should be a school's priority.

Yes, the principal should go door-to-door and get down on one knee and beg the IB families to enroll.

Don't worry. That ship has sailed. The principal didn't even both showing up for the Hardy info session at Mann this year. The OOB spots are safe.

Except for a token few, IB kids will keep going to privates or to charters like Latin and BASIS.

Sorry, "bother".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The IB parents who would like to go to Hardy, all the feeder elementaries, should start a group and meet frequently and come up with a proposal, and approach the principal and DCPS. It is ridiculous if the school is not serving the IB community. DCPS cannot build another school, but the existing school needs to make en effort to have all the IB families go, that should be a school's priority.

There's no point. In the end, Hardy is perceived to be a zero sum game. Any gains for IB families come at the expense of OOB families, and the needs of OOB families are deemed more important than the needs of IB families.

[Anonymous]

Well, I feel like Eaton parents had been sold a story about Hardy turning around, but it seems like unless the Principal wants to make that happen, it just won't happen. Oh well.

Here is an Eaton family who will be lotterying out this year in an attempt at a Deal feeder.

[Anonymous]

Why should OOB families be "given" a school? This is so odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I feel like Eaton parents had been sold a story about Hardy turning around, but it seems like unless the Principal wants to make that happen, it just won't happen. Oh well.

Here is an Eaton family who will be lotterying out this year in an attempt at a Deal feeder.

Mann parent here. Please keep Latin and BASIS in mind as well, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I feel like Eaton parents had been sold a story about Hardy turning around, but it seems like unless the Principal wants to make that happen, it just won't happen. Oh well.

Here is an Eaton family who will be lotterying out this year in an attempt at a Deal feeder.

Mann parent here. Please keep Latin and BASIS in mind as well, PP.

But we are in early elementary and would feel much more secure with a feed to Deal before the time comes, when who knows what the chances of getting into Latin and Basis are in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I feel like Eaton parents had been sold a story about Hardy turning around, but it seems like unless the Principal wants to make that happen, it just won't happen. Oh well.

Here is an Eaton family who will be lotterying out this year in an attempt at a Deal feeder.

Mann parent here. Please keep Latin and BASIS in mind as well, PP.

But we are in early elementary and would feel much more secure with a feed to Deal before the time comes, when who knows what the chances of getting into Latin and Basis are in the future.

That's a good point, PP. Good luck lotterying for a Deal feeder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the city is going to build a small school just to cater to IB families who don't want to go to school with OOB families? That is a crazy idea!

No, they just don't want to go to a mediocre middle school which lags far behind the other DC middle school WOTP. Hardy may be a welcome life boat for those whose local middle schools are much worse, but it seems like a distant also-ran compared to Alice Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I feel like Eaton parents had been sold a story about Hardy turning around, but it seems like unless the Principal wants to make that happen, it just won't happen. Oh well.

Here is an Eaton family who will be lotterying out this year in an attempt at a Deal feeder.

John Eaton was royally screwed in the whole school reassignment process. Mr Frumin, the ward 3 rep on the boundary advisory committee, conceded (or is "dismissed" a better word?) Eaton students as the "collateral damage" in the whole process.