How has Hardy drawn inbound families?

[Anonymous]

Look, uniforms are fine, although my kids don't like them. But the reason Hardy has them is that it adopted a gimmick of many challenged inner city schools at one time, who believed that uniforms helped to instill needed discipline. They are a vestige of that era, and they send a signal that is inconsistent with Hardy's apparent objective of wanting to truly be a middle school of choice in Upper NW. Just sayin.'

[Anonymous]

Um..NCS does not have a uniform-I am in my 40s and went there for high school and even the dress code way back then was for conservative dress, not uniformity. Hardy's is a full on uniform, very different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Um..NCS does not have a uniform-I am in my 40s and went there for high school and even the dress code way back then was for conservative dress, not uniformity. Hardy's is a full on uniform, very different.

The earlier grades at NCS, 4-8, absolutely have full on uniforms, so not so different.

As for the current NCS high schoolers...definitely not conservatively dressed.

[Anonymous]

7 and 8 at NCS did NoT have uniforms when I was there 30 years ago!

[Anonymous]

"Girls in the lower school wear a uniform, but students in 7-12 grade abide by a dress code which merely asks them to wear clothes hat are neat, clean and suitable for school"

From he NCS website-no uniform there!

And the STA uniform is too long to list, but it is much less strict than Hardy's, actually!

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Anonymous wrote:Would it be possible for hardy kids to get access to deal programs not offered by hardy? Not only for sports like crew and lacrosse, but other after school enrichment programs.

I have in mind Hardy kids joining deal teams and after school activities.

Are you kidding? It's hard enough for Deal kids to get on certain Deal teams. Combining Hardy with Deal for athletic purposes would totally put sports teams out of reach for some kids, not to mention that practical issues of ferrying kids up and down Wisconsin Avenue. Why doesn't Hardy build out its own athletic program and other activities more??

Sigh. Hardy does in fact have a full slate of sports and other activities - but I wouldn't expect anyone to actually check that fact before making false implications about Hardy not having such activities.

Frankly, I think Deal has too much of an emphasis on athletic programs. It would be a much better school if they encouraged kids to focus on academics instead of glorifying athletics so much.

Surely you then know the answer to the oft-asked, never-answered question: where do they play?

According to the website Hardy has:
Football
Indoor and Outdoor Track
Volleyball
Basketball
Golf
Tennis
Baseball
Soccer

(http://www.hardyms.org/extracurricular/interscholastic-2ports)
Volleyball, basketball and indoor track I would presume are in the gym. Tennis, there are courts on-site. So where do the football, golf, baseball, soccer and outdoor track teams practice and play?

Interesting there is no lacrosse or crew on this list, 2 of the more popular sports.

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Anonymous wrote:Would it be possible for hardy kids to get access to deal programs not offered by hardy? Not only for sports like crew and lacrosse, but other after school enrichment programs.

I have in mind Hardy kids joining deal teams and after school activities.

Are you kidding? It's hard enough for Deal kids to get on certain Deal teams. Combining Hardy with Deal for athletic purposes would totally put sports teams out of reach for some kids, not to mention that practical issues of ferrying kids up and down Wisconsin Avenue. Why doesn't Hardy build out its own athletic program and other activities more??

Sigh. Hardy does in fact have a full slate of sports and other activities - but I wouldn't expect anyone to actually check that fact before making false implications about Hardy not having such activities.

Frankly, I think Deal has too much of an emphasis on athletic programs. It would be a much better school if they encouraged kids to focus on academics instead of glorifying athletics so much.

Surely you then know the answer to the oft-asked, never-answered question: where do they play?

According to the website Hardy has:
Football
Indoor and Outdoor Track
Volleyball
Basketball
Golf
Tennis
Baseball
Soccer

(http://www.hardyms.org/extracurricular/interscholastic-2ports)
Volleyball, basketball and indoor track I would presume are in the gym. Tennis, there are courts on-site. So where do the football, golf, baseball, soccer and outdoor track teams practice and play?

Interesting there is no lacrosse or crew on this list, 2 of the more popular sports.

No squash either.

[Anonymous]

Yes, middle school crew at inner city public school-- so popular.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, middle school crew at inner city public school-- so popular.

It's very popular at deal. Ever been to NW DC?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, middle school crew at inner city public school-- so popular.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Deal has a good crew feeder program and I believe Wilson has the oldest continuously running crew program among DC public schools. Plus, with the resurgence of crew, even in more challenged schools, have come a number of media stories on how crew reaches kids who may not do other athletics and in some cases changes kids' lives. CBS News had a great story a month ago on such a program in Chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, middle school crew at inner city public school-- so popular.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Deal has a good crew feeder program and I believe Wilson has the oldest continuously running crew program among DC public schools. Plus, with the resurgence of crew, even in more challenged schools, have come a number of media stories on how crew reaches kids who may not do other athletics and in some cases changes kids' lives. CBS News had a great story a month ago on such a program in Chicago.

Speaking of - here are some photos from Serve Your City's program with DC Strokes teaching city kids about rowing at the Anacostia Community Boathouse.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.604869512893087.1073741842.274204495959592&type=1

And here's an article about the program: http://washingtoninformer.com/news/2013/nov/13/students-revel-rowing-activities/?page=1

And just in case you know anyone who is interested in rowing (ages 13 and up I think) whose school doesn't have a program, check out the Juniors Program at Capital Rowing Club. We have kids from all over the city (but mostly School Without Walls). https://www.capitalrowing.org/crc/index.php/rowing-programs/juniors Okay not a middle school program but something for middle schoolers to aim for.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, middle school crew at inner city public school-- so popular.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Deal has a good crew feeder program and I believe Wilson has the oldest continuously running crew program among DC public schools. Plus, with the resurgence of crew, even in more challenged schools, have come a number of media stories on how crew reaches kids who may not do other athletics and in some cases changes kids' lives. CBS News had a great story a month ago on such a program in Chicago.

Speaking of - here are some photos from Serve Your City's program with DC Strokes teaching city kids about rowing at the Anacostia Community Boathouse.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.604869512893087.1073741842.274204495959592&type=1

And here's an article about the program: http://washingtoninformer.com/news/2013/nov/13/students-revel-rowing-activities/?page=1

And just in case you know anyone who is interested in rowing (ages 13 and up I think) whose school doesn't have a program, check out the Juniors Program at Capital Rowing Club. We have kids from all over the city (but mostly School Without Walls). https://www.capitalrowing.org/crc/index.php/rowing-programs/juniors Okay not a middle school program but something for middle schoolers to aim for.

Deal's program is very special -- even most of the established private school programs don't start as early as middle school. Kids from NW who want to row look forward to the Deal program for that reason.

[Anonymous]

Yes, Deal has a program (really just a feeder to Wilson, they don't compete against other DCPS middle schools) which is a complete anomaly in inner city public schools. Yes there are jr rowing programs via clubs but to expect an inner city public school to have a crew team is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

I should add that Deal has a squash club.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, middle school crew at inner city public school-- so popular.

It's very popular at deal. Ever been to NW DC?

Yes. Two at Deal thank you for asking. It isn't "very" popular but kids do it in 8th grade as part of the Wilson program. It isn't a stand alone Deal crew team.