So how many IB are going to really be at Hardy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The PTA is not here to serve your racist and classist views. You want to know numbers, call Trish Pride and ask yourself. And please don't send your child to Hardy.

Wow. If the PP exemplifies Hardy's "unique culture," I surely won't sent my child there.

If you teach you're child to judge a school based on an anonymous blog post, he/she would be a huge discipline problem at any school you choose and no one will want their child to be in class with your child.

see how dumb it is to generalize?

[Anonymous]

you're =your

[Anonymous]

When is this information going to be publicly released? I don't have any nefarious reasons for wanting to know. I am inbounds, have a 2.5 year old, and am interested in the school's trajectory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The PTA is not here to serve your racist and classist views. You want to know numbers, call Trish Pride and ask yourself. And please don't send your child to Hardy.

Racist views?! Paging Tawana Brawley!

Wow, Tawana Brawley is so irrelevant to this thread. If you're a troll, you really suck at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So...has Hardy provided the new enrollment figures yet, or is that still classified information?

It's the second.fucking.day.of.school.
How are you proposing this information be shared? Should Principal Pride send out a memo? Should she call a Wash Post reporter? Get a marquee and post is there?

I hope you don't talk like this in front of your kid. No wonder he needs a uniform.

Yeah, definitely a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When is this information going to be publicly released? I don't have any nefarious reasons for wanting to know. I am inbounds, have a 2.5 year old, and am interested in the school's trajectory.

You still have a little time so don't panic if they're not out this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The PTA is not here to serve your racist and classist views. You want to know numbers, call Trish Pride and ask yourself. And please don't send your child to Hardy.

Racist views?! Paging Tawana Brawley!

Wow, Tawana Brawley is so irrelevant to this thread. If you're a troll, you really suck at it.

She's the matron saint of all those who falsely cry "racism."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When is this information going to be publicly released? I don't have any nefarious reasons for wanting to know. I am inbounds, have a 2.5 year old, and am interested in the school's trajectory.

You still have a little time so don't panic if they're not out this week.

If your child is so young, do you really have a need to know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When is this information going to be publicly released? I don't have any nefarious reasons for wanting to know. I am inbounds, have a 2.5 year old, and am interested in the school's trajectory.

You still have a little time so don't panic if they're not out this week.

If your child is so young, do you really have a need to know?

People make decisons, including real estate decisions, all the time. I don't think there's any rush to get the numbers out, but it seems silly to wonder why people would like to see them. Many people believe that establishing a network of desirable, neighborhood serving middle schools is important to the future of DC, and Hardy seems to be the test case for whether this can happen beyond Deal. While many people do not see establishing such a network as important, or even desirable, it clearly does speak to important questions about the district's future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When is this information going to be publicly released? I don't have any nefarious reasons for wanting to know. I am inbounds, have a 2.5 year old, and am interested in the school's trajectory.

You still have a little time so don't panic if they're not out this week.

If your child is so young, do you really have a need to know?

People make decisons, including real estate decisions, all the time. I don't think there's any rush to get the numbers out, but it seems silly to wonder why people would like to see them. Many people believe that establishing a network of desirable, neighborhood serving middle schools is important to the future of DC, and Hardy seems to be the test case for whether this can happen beyond Deal. While many people do not see establishing such a network as important, or even desirable, it clearly does speak to important questions about the district's future.

I think the honest answer is like many investments, past performance does not guarantee future performance. The school has changed a lot in the last 5 years it is hard to know where it will be in the next 10, one hopes it will be a high-flyer, but I can see some senarios where it is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When is this information going to be publicly released? I don't have any nefarious reasons for wanting to know. I am inbounds, have a 2.5 year old, and am interested in the school's trajectory.

You still have a little time so don't panic if they're not out this week.

If your child is so young, do you really have a need to know?

People make decisons, including real estate decisions, all the time. I don't think there's any rush to get the numbers out, but it seems silly to wonder why people would like to see them. Many people believe that establishing a network of desirable, neighborhood serving middle schools is important to the future of DC, and Hardy seems to be the test case for whether this can happen beyond Deal. While many people do not see establishing such a network as important, or even desirable, it clearly does speak to important questions about the district's future.

I think the honest answer is like many investments, past performance does not guarantee future performance. The school has changed a lot in the last 5 years it is hard to know where it will be in the next 10, one hopes it will be a high-flyer, but I can see some senarios where it is not.

Yes, me too, for instance if intelligent people keep waiting for Hardy's scores to go up without sending their kids there, when they know full well that that's how Deal's scores went up and how any schools scores would go up. Also, it would be dumb for people keep trying to get into Deal, knowing full well that an over-crowded school won't be as good - but that doesn't seem to stop people.

[Anonymous]

"How many white kids are going to Hardy" is what I think they meant. Probably not enough for you. I suggest one of the many private schools in the area.

[Anonymous]

Just get Marion Barry to lead a protest and demand Pride's resignation the way he tried to force out Dr. Kim at Deal when she started. IB families figured that if Barry opposed her that strongly, her reforms must be pretty good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The PTA is not here to serve your racist and classist views. You want to know numbers, call Trish Pride and ask yourself. And please don't send your child to Hardy.

Racist views?! Paging Tawana Brawley!

Wow, Tawana Brawley is so irrelevant to this thread. If you're a troll, you really suck at it.

She's the matron saint of all those who falsely cry "racism."

Yawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When is this information going to be publicly released? I don't have any nefarious reasons for wanting to know. I am inbounds, have a 2.5 year old, and am interested in the school's trajectory.

You still have a little time so don't panic if they're not out this week.

If your child is so young, do you really have a need to know?

People make decisons, including real estate decisions, all the time. I don't think there's any rush to get the numbers out, but it seems silly to wonder why people would like to see them. Many people believe that establishing a network of desirable, neighborhood serving middle schools is important to the future of DC, and Hardy seems to be the test case for whether this can happen beyond Deal. While many people do not see establishing such a network as important, or even desirable, it clearly does speak to important questions about the district's future.

I think the honest answer is like many investments, past performance does not guarantee future performance. The school has changed a lot in the last 5 years it is hard to know where it will be in the next 10, one hopes it will be a high-flyer, but I can see some senarios where it is not.

And by the time a toddler is even close to thinking about middle school, a lot will have changed one way or another -- Hardy, the pp's family circumstances, the Georgetown neighborhood. Unless one is buying a house in the next week, I think one can relax a bit and wait to get more information - at least six months but I'd hazard a guess that you could wait, say, even two years.