Are in boundary families leaving Hardy because if MacArthur?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls.

Which ones are the trolls?

If you have to ask…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we talking about Hardy or DCPS? Doesn’t that make a huge difference? How widespread and nasty are these fights at Hardy’s? Nobody downplays violence when our kids may be affected. I just feel like we are not talking about the same thing.

This thread is about Hardy. My friend has her kid at a school in NoVa with similar demographics in terms of housing costs and there is nothing like what is going on at Hardy with daily fights, behavior issues in the classes, no specials, no PE, no issues with bathrooms, etc….

What world do people live in on here to say that this is just normal? Seriously? Maybe in a high poverty neighborhood, I don’t know. But no way in a neighborhood where housing stock is 1.5-3 million plus.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know.. some of the parents have reported a good experience so far. Somehow I feel like it’s one or two of them repeatedly reporting and magnifying the same issues.

On a different note, just went over the MCPS forum and the thread titles don’t portend a much rosier picture.. antisemitism, drugs, pedo, security issues..

One of the threads about a middle school has this:

“Documented incidents at the school include numerous fights and violent incidents have taken place this school year alone, plus repeated stink bombs and fires in the bathrooms. Additionally, this year, we had two separate BB gun incidents, as well as a knife brought to school. One could make a compelling case that the physical environment itself and its demoralizing condition contributes to discord and friction among students.”

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know.. some of the parents have reported a good experience so far. Somehow I feel like it’s one or two of them repeatedly reporting and magnifying the same issues.

On a different note, just went over the MCPS forum and the thread titles don’t portend a much rosier picture.. antisemitism, drugs, pedo, security issues..

One of the threads about a middle school has this:

“Documented incidents at the school include numerous fights and violent incidents have taken place this school year alone, plus repeated stink bombs and fires in the bathrooms. Additionally, this year, we had two separate BB gun incidents, as well as a knife brought to school. One could make a compelling case that the physical environment itself and its demoralizing condition contributes to discord and friction among students.”

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You can’t just pick and choose. Above is nothing unless you name the school. Huge variation in different schools in as large a county at MCPS. You need to compare apples to apples. I highly doubt above is happening at the top schools in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know.. some of the parents have reported a good experience so far. Somehow I feel like it’s one or two of them repeatedly reporting and magnifying the same issues.

On a different note, just went over the MCPS forum and the thread titles don’t portend a much rosier picture.. antisemitism, drugs, pedo, security issues..

One of the threads about a middle school has this:

“Documented incidents at the school include numerous fights and violent incidents have taken place this school year alone, plus repeated stink bombs and fires in the bathrooms. Additionally, this year, we had two separate BB gun incidents, as well as a knife brought to school. One could make a compelling case that the physical environment itself and its demoralizing condition contributes to discord and friction among students.”

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You can’t just pick and choose. Above is nothing unless you name the school. Huge variation in different schools in as large a county at MCPS. You need to compare apples to apples. I highly doubt above is happening at the top schools in MCPS.

Ah okay. 🥱

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls.

Which ones are the trolls?

The ones that disagree with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know.. some of the parents have reported a good experience so far. Somehow I feel like it’s one or two of them repeatedly reporting and magnifying the same issues.

On a different note, just went over the MCPS forum and the thread titles don’t portend a much rosier picture.. antisemitism, drugs, pedo, security issues..

One of the threads about a middle school has this:

“Documented incidents at the school include numerous fights and violent incidents have taken place this school year alone, plus repeated stink bombs and fires in the bathrooms. Additionally, this year, we had two separate BB gun incidents, as well as a knife brought to school. One could make a compelling case that the physical environment itself and its demoralizing condition contributes to discord and friction among students.”

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but they didn’t have band cancelled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know.. some of the parents have reported a good experience so far. Somehow I feel like it’s one or two of them repeatedly reporting and magnifying the same issues.

On a different note, just went over the MCPS forum and the thread titles don’t portend a much rosier picture.. antisemitism, drugs, pedo, security issues..

One of the threads about a middle school has this:

“Documented incidents at the school include numerous fights and violent incidents have taken place this school year alone, plus repeated stink bombs and fires in the bathrooms. Additionally, this year, we had two separate BB gun incidents, as well as a knife brought to school. One could make a compelling case that the physical environment itself and its demoralizing condition contributes to discord and friction among students.”

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but they didn’t have band cancelled.

Nor get randomly assigned to 'electives' like this year's 6th graders.

Lets be clear: Hardy has a lot of things going for it -- a lot of nice, bright, and interesting teachers. A bunch (not all, but lots) of capable and energetic teachers, sufficient if dark and worn space, a good PTO. it was working better in tecent years than this year.

It is suffering this year from an absurd level of budget cuts, the principal transition, and whack DC/DCPS policies. These things could get fixed, and hopefully they will be soon. The fact that they have been a problem this year is disheartening and does not inspire confidence in Macarthur. But the potential for DCPS to undo self-inflicted problems exists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know.. some of the parents have reported a good experience so far. Somehow I feel like it’s one or two of them repeatedly reporting and magnifying the same issues.

On a different note, just went over the MCPS forum and the thread titles don’t portend a much rosier picture.. antisemitism, drugs, pedo, security issues..

One of the threads about a middle school has this:

“Documented incidents at the school include numerous fights and violent incidents have taken place this school year alone, plus repeated stink bombs and fires in the bathrooms. Additionally, this year, we had two separate BB gun incidents, as well as a knife brought to school. One could make a compelling case that the physical environment itself and its demoralizing condition contributes to discord and friction among students.”

…

but they didn’t have band cancelled.

Nor get randomly assigned to 'electives' like this year's 6th graders.

Lets be clear: Hardy has a lot of things going for it -- a lot of nice, bright, and interesting teachers. A bunch (not all, but lots) of capable and energetic teachers, sufficient if dark and worn space, a good PTO. it was working better in tecent years than this year.

It is suffering this year from an absurd level of budget cuts, the principal transition, and whack DC/DCPS policies. These things could get fixed, and hopefully they will be soon. The fact that they have been a problem this year is disheartening and does not inspire confidence in Macarthur. But the potential for DCPS to undo self-inflicted problems exists.

* nice, bright, and interesting STUDENTS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know.. some of the parents have reported a good experience so far. Somehow I feel like it’s one or two of them repeatedly reporting and magnifying the same issues.

On a different note, just went over the MCPS forum and the thread titles don’t portend a much rosier picture.. antisemitism, drugs, pedo, security issues..

One of the threads about a middle school has this:

“Documented incidents at the school include numerous fights and violent incidents have taken place this school year alone, plus repeated stink bombs and fires in the bathrooms. Additionally, this year, we had two separate BB gun incidents, as well as a knife brought to school. One could make a compelling case that the physical environment itself and its demoralizing condition contributes to discord and friction among students.”

…

but they didn’t have band cancelled.

Nor get randomly assigned to 'electives' like this year's 6th graders.

Lets be clear: Hardy has a lot of things going for it -- a lot of nice, bright, and interesting teachers. A bunch (not all, but lots) of capable and energetic teachers, sufficient if dark and worn space, a good PTO. it was working better in tecent years than this year.

It is suffering this year from an absurd level of budget cuts, the principal transition, and whack DC/DCPS policies. These things could get fixed, and hopefully they will be soon. The fact that they have been a problem this year is disheartening and does not inspire confidence in Macarthur. But the potential for DCPS to undo self-inflicted problems exists.

the budgeting process is absolutely nuts. I don’t understand it at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grade daughter at Hardy has also reported her gym teacher is sexist.

Mine too, and everyone's 6th grade daughters have reported it to the AP when called into a girls-only assembly a few weeks ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grade daughter at Hardy has also reported her gym teacher is sexist.

Mine too, and everyone's 6th grade daughters have reported it to the AP when called into a girls-only assembly a few weeks ago.

Except nothing changed, the locker rooms remained locked, etc. until this week when they had a sub for gym one of the days, but that was the last day of gym so the girls ended up having a bad experience with a bad male teacher for an entire quarter. Just another example of the crappy year at the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grade daughter at Hardy has also reported her gym teacher is sexist.

Mine too, and everyone's 6th grade daughters have reported it to the AP when called into a girls-only assembly a few weeks ago.

Except nothing changed, the locker rooms remained locked, etc. until this week when they had a sub for gym one of the days, but that was the last day of gym so the girls ended up having a bad experience with a bad male teacher for an entire quarter. Just another example of the crappy year at the school.

Ugh. Well, next quarter they likely get to experience the (female) (onboarded a month into the school year) drama teacher's harshness, for balance, which was also discussed at that assembly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grade daughter at Hardy has also reported her gym teacher is sexist.

Mine too, and everyone's 6th grade daughters have reported it to the AP when called into a girls-only assembly a few weeks ago.

Except nothing changed, the locker rooms remained locked, etc. until this week when they had a sub for gym one of the days, but that was the last day of gym so the girls ended up having a bad experience with a bad male teacher for an entire quarter. Just another example of the crappy year at the school.

I agree. The first half of the year was rough. The new principal is hopefully getting his sea legs and learning that being a school principal means being on top of everything within the school, from students to teachers to custodians to DGS work orders. He didn't seem to grasp this, and perhaps still doesn't.

Some changes have been implemented -- see website and tutoring offerings -- and more are coming I hope. The principal has vanishingly short time to salvage this year and then start convincing parents that next year will be different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grade daughter at Hardy has also reported her gym teacher is sexist.

Mine too, and everyone's 6th grade daughters have reported it to the AP when called into a girls-only assembly a few weeks ago.

Sorry, what???!!! Did they want to talk to them about cooking and knitting and which fork goes where?