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

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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.

Not many families one Shepherd Park send their kids to charters. The ones that I know started at the charter before they moved into Shepherd. There are a lot that go private just like there are many ward 3 that go private. Many go to Jewish schools. Shepherd residents have been starting to go IB at a drastic rate, they are following behind Hearst and Eaton patterns.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Diverse racially? The OOB system may lead to diversity for Hardy and 3 or 4 Ward 3 schools. But it guarantees lack of diversity at dozens of Ward 1 and 2 schools. Give me a break.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Not many families one Shepherd Park send their kids to charters. The ones that I know started at the charter before they moved into Shepherd. There are a lot that go private just like there are many ward 3 that go private. Many go to Jewish schools. Shepherd residents have been starting to go IB at a drastic rate, they are following behind Hearst and Eaton patterns.

+1. SP families are choosing the neighborhood school at increasing rates. More families every year are getting shut out of PK as people with young kids move in. PK3 thru about 1st/2nd already majority IB.

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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.

Wow, did you lock your doors? (sarcasm)

Right. PP is the exact reason I’d HATE to live WOTP (the chance of run across her/his racists ass. And the crazy thing is, I bet they have an ‘all are welcome’ type picket sign in their yard. Maybe even a rainbow flag.