News from Heasrt open house

[Anonymous]

Where do kids go after Hearst? DO OBB kids have rights to another school for 5th grade or Middle School?

[Anonymous]

Hearst feeds into Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hearst feeds into Deal.

Is that official? I had thought a final decision hadn't been made because next year will be Heart's first year with a 5th grade.

[Anonymous]

Hearst actually feeds into Hardy - - not Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hearst actually feeds into Hardy - - not Deal.

I thought so too.

[Anonymous]

Unless Hearst feeds into both Deal and Hardy, it feeds into Deal. When I typed our address into the DCPS website, we were in-boundary for Hearst, Deal and Wilson. Also, at the open house this year, someone on the Hearst PTA told me that Hearst feeds into Deal.

[Anonymous]

Being in boundary for both Hearst/Deal/Wilson could be different that Hearst "feeding" Deal. If it is a designated feeder school, then all students at that school, whether in or out of boundary get to go to Deal. For example, you can be in boundary for Deal, but out of boundary for Wilson, but if you attend Deal, you have a "right" to do to Wilson, because Deal "feeds" Wilson.

If you type in Hearst on the DCPS website, it doesn't currently say what MS it feeds.

Regardless, by next year DCPS will have to make clear the feeder pattern for Heast's first 5th graders.

[Anonymous]

I am a parent of a pre-k student at Hearst. Next year, Hearst will be a pre-K through 5th grade elementary school. If it matters, I am in-boundary and our family is very happy with the school. Once you are a student at Hearst - in-boundary or due to OOB lottery - you have the right to attend Deal, then Wilson. Hardy is not an option (unless you choose it OOB).

[Anonymous]

I think Hearst has benenunderutilized since it only went to 3rd, But I also think there are a lot of people in the neighborhood who wouldn't think of looking at a public schools. Once the renovations are over, I think it will attract even more people in-bounds. However, there will be a lot of OOB students when they add 4th and 5th so those kids can be in afeeder school to Deal.

I had friends who moved out 10 years ago since they did not want their kids to go to Hearst. Went to MoCo and gave up a really nice house.

Tangentially: Deal has been coming up for the last 7 or 8 years. I went to Deal for Open House today with DS. This was my second trip. It is really impressive. It has been improving over the last 7 or 8 years, but the new facility seems to have given it a big boost.

DS saw kids he knows from his school and parents who have kids at both Deal and our ES have been very pleased. I saw kids focused and having fun. My only concern is the size, (it will be 900 at full enrollment, but you go to school with a team of 100 which is a school within the school). They have broken it down to make it manageable for the kids and DS said he thinks he would be comfortable going there. And it is now all honors track - there are no separate tracks.

After 16 years living in the neighborhood, all I can say is that the teen problems come and go and right now we seem to be in a bad period. But I haven't seen many Deal kids at the Tenleytown station. They have lots of afterschool activities and come out at 4:30 and mostly head home.

[Anonymous]

Deal impressed us as well and I was incredibly skeptical. Go visit to see for yourself and checkout some of the past threads on DCUM.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/96224.page
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/61417.page#441993
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/96224.page#777023
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/67247.page

[Anonymous]

There will be two more Deal open houses on April 23 and May 9, 9-10a. These are shorter versions of the all day open houses held in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Hearst has benenunderutilized since it only went to 3rd, But I also think there are a lot of people in the neighborhood who wouldn't think of looking at a public schools. Once the renovations are over, I think it will attract even more people in-bounds. However, there will be a lot of OOB students when they add 4th and 5th so those kids can be in afeeder school to Deal.

I had friends who moved out 10 years ago since they did not want their kids to go to Hearst. Went to MoCo and gave up a really nice house.

Tangentially: Deal has been coming up for the last 7 or 8 years. I went to Deal for Open House today with DS. This was my second trip. It is really impressive. It has been improving over the last 7 or 8 years, but the new facility seems to have given it a big boost.

DS saw kids he knows from his school and parents who have kids at both Deal and our ES have been very pleased. I saw kids focused and having fun. My only concern is the size, (it will be 900 at full enrollment, but you go to school with a team of 100 which is a school within the school). They have broken it down to make it manageable for the kids and DS said he thinks he would be comfortable going there. And it is now all honors track - there are no separate tracks.

After 16 years living in the neighborhood, all I can say is that the teen problems come and go and right now we seem to be in a bad period. But I haven't seen many Deal kids at the Tenleytown station. They have lots of afterschool activities and come out at 4:30 and mostly head home.

There's no way every child at the school can perform at an honors level, even if they make challenging coursework theoretically available to everyone. How do they differentiate for different levels? They do, don't they? How about within that team of 100-- is it mixed ability?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are the kids at Deal terrifying? My child attends Deal and it is a warm place with really cute kids!

It's hard to describe middle school kids as "cute" in general because they're at such an awkward (though temporary) age.

In any event, PP is probably referring to the unpleasantly boisterous teens and pre-teens who loiter around Tenleytown after school. This concerns me too, because I wish I could send my child to a school in which all the students represent themselves a little more seriously, not one where I imagine she'll have to depend on a bubble of honors kids.

Good luck finding a school of 11 to 14 year olds in which most, much less all, represent themselves "seriously," especially after being released from school for the day.

[Anonymous]

I live in the neighborhood and would like to hear more about Hearst, get involved... How are events there publicized?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are the kids at Deal terrifying? My child attends Deal and it is a warm place with really cute kids!

It's hard to describe middle school kids as "cute" in general because they're at such an awkward (though temporary) age.

In any event, PP is probably referring to the unpleasantly boisterous teens and pre-teens who loiter around Tenleytown after school. This concerns me too, because I wish I could send my child to a school in which all the students represent themselves a little more seriously, not one where I imagine she'll have to depend on a bubble of honors kids.

Good luck finding a school of 11 to 14 year olds in which most, much less all, represent themselves "seriously," especially after being released from school for the day.

I'd settle for kids who don't F-bomb constantly.