Would you trade Hyde for Janney?!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's hard to be OOB at Janney since the school is very neighborhood based. I would not switch.

Hyde has a sizable contingent of dedicated OOB families. Its part of the culture. We are in-bounds and our kid has school friends in the neighborhood, but we also still get together with OOB kids on the weekend for park meetups, birthdays, etc. It's not a problem at all, people are very cool about it.

I can't speak for Janney, but I have a suspicion it will be easier to find your people at H-A. I vote to stay.

-IB Hyde Family

Janney is so heavily neighborhood based. Very few OOB students. Obviously nothing is that far but the vast majority of families walk to school in the morning and it's very much part of the culture there.

yes. Agree with this. You can feel on the outs even if you live on the further reaches of the neighborhood and have to drive vs. walk. People are not mean or exclusionary (lest anyone jump there) but it's just such a neighborhood based school. If you're out-of-bounds kids will come to your parties and playdates but it's definitely a rough go socially simply because everyone else is packed into one square mile and see each other daily (share backyards, etc). This is especially true later on (4th grade and up) when kids start to walk home independently.

I knew an OOB family who would drive their kid deep into the neighborhood each and every morning (for years) so their kid could walk 6 blocks and up the hill with their friends. This is how significant the neighborhood culture is--again not because people are mean but the inboundary families (which is most of the school) simply have a huge amount of face time with each other.

[Anonymous]

Thank you everyone for the comments. We have decided to stay at Hyde!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's hard to be OOB at Janney since the school is very neighborhood based. I would not switch.

Hyde has a sizable contingent of dedicated OOB families. Its part of the culture. We are in-bounds and our kid has school friends in the neighborhood, but we also still get together with OOB kids on the weekend for park meetups, birthdays, etc. It's not a problem at all, people are very cool about it.

I can't speak for Janney, but I have a suspicion it will be easier to find your people at H-A. I vote to stay.

-IB Hyde Family

Janney is so heavily neighborhood based. Very few OOB students. Obviously nothing is that far but the vast majority of families walk to school in the morning and it's very much part of the culture there.

yes. Agree with this. You can feel on the outs even if you live on the further reaches of the neighborhood and have to drive vs. walk. People are not mean or exclusionary (lest anyone jump there) but it's just such a neighborhood based school. If you're out-of-bounds kids will come to your parties and playdates but it's definitely a rough go socially simply because everyone else is packed into one square mile and see each other daily (share backyards, etc). This is especially true later on (4th grade and up) when kids start to walk home independently.

I knew an OOB family who would drive their kid deep into the neighborhood each and every morning (for years) so their kid could walk 6 blocks and up the hill with their friends. This is how significant the neighborhood culture is--again not because people are mean but the inboundary families (which is most of the school) simply have a huge amount of face time with each other.

And kids walk home together too. They play with each other by poking over the fence to see if their friends are home. They ride their bikes around. Kinda a flashback to an older world where parents weren't 24/7 chauffeurs.

[Anonymous]

Janney is losing 11-12 staff members because of the budget. Just FYI, Hyde Addison is losing 0.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/14/dc-school-staff-cuts-bowser-budget-proposal/#

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Janney is losing 11-12 staff members because of the budget. Just FYI, Hyde Addison is losing 0.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/14/dc-school-staff-cuts-bowser-budget-proposal/#

I don't think this is entirely true, but it seems more like a FU from the mayor to Frumin than anything else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Janney is losing 11-12 staff members because of the budget. Just FYI, Hyde Addison is losing 0.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/14/dc-school-staff-cuts-bowser-budget-proposal/#

I don't think this is entirely true, but it seems more like a FU from the mayor to Frumin than anything else.

Nah, Hyde is one of the mayor's and chancellor's favorite schools. Welcoming atmosphere for OOB families, very diverse, great test scores, great admin + leadership, etc. Teachers and class assistants stay at the school for a long time.

The staffing losses at W3 schools are big.