When will Hardy Middle School be as attractive as Deal Middle School?

[Anonymous]

More feeder kids are going to Hardy. But the feeders aren't all IB.
Eaton 54%
Key 84%
Hyde 43%
Mann 80%
Stoddert 80%

The number of OOB students entering Hardy at 6th grade is slowing down, but there are still OOB students entering the feeder pattern in a lower grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More feeder kids are going to Hardy. But the feeders aren't all IB.
Eaton 54%
Key 84%
Hyde 43%
Mann 80%
Stoddert 80%

The number of OOB students entering Hardy at 6th grade is slowing down, but there are still OOB students entering the feeder pattern in a lower grade.

And, you're point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More feeder kids are going to Hardy. But the feeders aren't all IB.
Eaton 54%
Key 84%
Hyde 43%
Mann 80%
Stoddert 80%

The number of OOB students entering Hardy at 6th grade is slowing down, but there are still OOB students entering the feeder pattern in a lower grade.

And, you're point?

Hardy is good and will get better. But it won’t “look” like a Ward 3 school for a while. Which is probably a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More feeder kids are going to Hardy. But the feeders aren't all IB.
Eaton 54%
Key 84%
Hyde 43%
Mann 80%
Stoddert 80%

The number of OOB students entering Hardy at 6th grade is slowing down, but there are still OOB students entering the feeder pattern in a lower grade.

And, you're point?

Hardy is good and will get better. But it won’t “look” like a Ward 3 school for a while. Which is probably a good thing.

The incoming 6th grade this fall will be around 70% kids just from Eaton & Stoddert alone. And look at the PARCC scores across all the schools - and reexamine some of your assumptions - Eaton has relatively good diversity and high performance. And with the current composition of the lower grades, within 2 years, Stoddert will be 100% IB and Eaton around 75-80% IB anyway.

So it may not look just like Key or Mann. But the composition of students will right away look like Deal's proportionately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More feeder kids are going to Hardy. But the feeders aren't all IB.
Eaton 54%
Key 84%
Hyde 43%
Mann 80%
Stoddert 80%

The number of OOB students entering Hardy at 6th grade is slowing down, but there are still OOB students entering the feeder pattern in a lower grade.

And, you're point?

Hardy is good and will get better. But it won’t “look” like a Ward 3 school for a while. Which is probably a good thing.

If you mean "look" ethnically, then I don't disagree with you. But I very much want Hardy to look like a Ward 3 school in terms of rigor, academic quality and programs. "Good enough for DC" just won't cut it anymore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When OOB kids are no longer allowed to hop scotch across the city into other neighborhood's schools.

This above is putting it rather bluntly, but the truth is that Hardy only will begin to rock and roll when it becomes overwhelmingly an Upper NW school.

Doesn't the PP's numbers indicate that this basically has happened, at least in the 6th grade?

Just dry by at dismissal, it is clearly still majority OOB kids. Or at least doesn’t look like any ward 3 neighborhood I have ever seen.

Try driving by in September 2018.

it has been a year away for 20 years. Your standards are much lower or you dream to much

[Anonymous]

90 percent of the incoming 6th will be from feeders in the fall. Double the amount this year. So in the fall the students will look like Eaton + Stoddert with some Mann Key and Hyde sprinkled in and 10% from other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:90 percent of the incoming 6th will be from feeders in the fall. Double the amount this year. So in the fall the students will look like Eaton + Stoddert with some Mann Key and Hyde sprinkled in and 10% from other schools.

So maybe DCPS was right to zone eaton out of Deal. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More feeder kids are going to Hardy. But the feeders aren't all IB.
Eaton 54%
Key 84%
Hyde 43%
Mann 80%
Stoddert 80%

The number of OOB students entering Hardy at 6th grade is slowing down, but there are still OOB students entering the feeder pattern in a lower grade.

And, you're point?

Hardy is good and will get better. But it won’t “look” like a Ward 3 school for a while. Which is probably a good thing.

There seems to be glee associated with closing down OOB options for kids. That’s sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More feeder kids are going to Hardy. But the feeders aren't all IB.
Eaton 54%
Key 84%
Hyde 43%
Mann 80%
Stoddert 80%

The number of OOB students entering Hardy at 6th grade is slowing down, but there are still OOB students entering the feeder pattern in a lower grade.

And, you're point?

Hardy is good and will get better. But it won’t “look” like a Ward 3 school for a while. Which is probably a good thing.

There seems to be glee associated with closing down OOB options for kids. That’s sad.

I hear you. I think you can be glad that a by-right school is serving more IB kids and also be sad that there aren't nearly enough by-right schools doing right by their students. We need more feeder patterns to work - especially outside of Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More feeder kids are going to Hardy. But the feeders aren't all IB.
Eaton 54%
Key 84%
Hyde 43%
Mann 80%
Stoddert 80%

The number of OOB students entering Hardy at 6th grade is slowing down, but there are still OOB students entering the feeder pattern in a lower grade.

And, you're point?

Hardy is good and will get better. But it won’t “look” like a Ward 3 school for a while. Which is probably a good thing.

There seems to be glee associated with closing down OOB options for kids. That’s sad.

I hear you. I think you can be glad that a by-right school is serving more IB kids and also be sad that there aren't nearly enough by-right schools doing right by their students. We need more feeder patterns to work - especially outside of Ward 3.

Right, but by perpetuating the OOB system you are gauranteeing that this will never happen. There are now enough high SES families living all over the City to make meaningful improvements to their neighborhood schools. It’s time for DCPS to end the OOB system and say to all the parents in places like Shaw, Petworth, Brookland, Shepherd, etc that it’s time to invest in your neighborhood schools and stop fleeing to charters and Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More feeder kids are going to Hardy. But the feeders aren't all IB.
Eaton 54%
Key 84%
Hyde 43%
Mann 80%
Stoddert 80%

The number of OOB students entering Hardy at 6th grade is slowing down, but there are still OOB students entering the feeder pattern in a lower grade.

And, you're point?

Hardy is good and will get better. But it won’t “look” like a Ward 3 school for a while. Which is probably a good thing.

There seems to be glee associated with closing down OOB options for kids. That’s sad.

I hear you. I think you can be glad that a by-right school is serving more IB kids and also be sad that there aren't nearly enough by-right schools doing right by their students. We need more feeder patterns to work - especially outside of Ward 3.

Right, but by perpetuating the OOB system you are gauranteeing that this will never happen. There are now enough high SES families living all over the City to make meaningful improvements to their neighborhood schools. It’s time for DCPS to end the OOB system and say to all the parents in places like Shaw, Petworth, Brookland, Shepherd, etc that it’s time to invest in your neighborhood schools and stop fleeing to charters and Ward 3.

There are NOT enough high SES families living "all over the city." DC's public school-age population (inclusive of charters and DCPS) is still 80% at risk.

The OOB system we have also helps keep schools diverse racially, and keeps individual class sizes manageable in the Wilson feeder schools. Taking away flexibility from principals will have unintended consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When OOB kids are no longer allowed to hop scotch across the city into other neighborhood's schools.

This above is putting it rather bluntly, but the truth is that Hardy only will begin to rock and roll when it becomes overwhelmingly an Upper NW school.

Doesn't the PP's numbers indicate that this basically has happened, at least in the 6th grade?

Just dry by at dismissal, it is clearly still majority OOB kids. Or at least doesn’t look like any ward 3 neighborhood I have ever seen.

Wow, did you lock your doors? (sarcasm)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More feeder kids are going to Hardy. But the feeders aren't all IB.
Eaton 54%
Key 84%
Hyde 43%
Mann 80%
Stoddert 80%

The number of OOB students entering Hardy at 6th grade is slowing down, but there are still OOB students entering the feeder pattern in a lower grade.

And, you're point?

Hardy is good and will get better. But it won’t “look” like a Ward 3 school for a while. Which is probably a good thing.

There seems to be glee associated with closing down OOB options for kids. That’s sad.

I hear you. I think you can be glad that a by-right school is serving more IB kids and also be sad that there aren't nearly enough by-right schools doing right by their students. We need more feeder patterns to work - especially outside of Ward 3.

Right, but by perpetuating the OOB system you are gauranteeing that this will never happen. There are now enough high SES families living all over the City to make meaningful improvements to their neighborhood schools. It’s time for DCPS to end the OOB system and say to all the parents in places like Shaw, Petworth, Brookland, Shepherd, etc that it’s time to invest in your neighborhood schools and stop fleeing to charters and Ward 3.

There are NOT enough high SES families living "all over the city." DC's public school-age population (inclusive of charters and DCPS) is still 80% at risk.

The OOB system we have also helps keep schools diverse racially, and keeps individual class sizes manageable in the Wilson feeder schools. Taking away flexibility from principals will have unintended consequences.

No no, we keep hearing what a privilege at risk kids are, stay home and enjoy your choices. Fix your neighborhood schools, don’t import your problems to ours

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More feeder kids are going to Hardy. But the feeders aren't all IB.
Eaton 54%
Key 84%
Hyde 43%
Mann 80%
Stoddert 80%

The number of OOB students entering Hardy at 6th grade is slowing down, but there are still OOB students entering the feeder pattern in a lower grade.

And, you're point?

Hardy is good and will get better. But it won’t “look” like a Ward 3 school for a while. Which is probably a good thing.

There seems to be glee associated with closing down OOB options for kids. That’s sad.

I hear you. I think you can be glad that a by-right school is serving more IB kids and also be sad that there aren't nearly enough by-right schools doing right by their students. We need more feeder patterns to work - especially outside of Ward 3.

Right, but by perpetuating the OOB system you are gauranteeing that this will never happen. There are now enough high SES families living all over the City to make meaningful improvements to their neighborhood schools. It’s time for DCPS to end the OOB system and say to all the parents in places like Shaw, Petworth, Brookland, Shepherd, etc that it’s time to invest in your neighborhood schools and stop fleeing to charters and Ward 3.

There are NOT enough high SES families living "all over the city." DC's public school-age population (inclusive of charters and DCPS) is still 80% at risk.

The OOB system we have also helps keep schools diverse racially, and keeps individual class sizes manageable in the Wilson feeder schools. Taking away flexibility from principals will have unintended consequences.

No no, we keep hearing what a privilege at risk kids are, stay home and enjoy your choices. Fix your neighborhood schools, don’t import your problems to ours

Wow.