Hardy vs. Deal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy used to be the main option for kids in the lesser parts of DC allowing them to be funneled to Wilson. When the old administrations started stacking the deck that only accelerated the local families abandoning it more which in turn created more seats for the rest of DC to have a shot at Wilson which always seemed like the intent. Kept Wilson diverse and gave black families who couldn’t afford ward 3 a public path.

Now that so many of the recent home owners are house poor and the good privates are not really for working families anymore, there has been a concerted effort to “reclaim” hardy. A couple of years ago at the fourth of July parade in the palisades , there were hipster parents walking with a “Hardy is good enough for my kids and it’s good enough for yours” banner. Few struggling schools in DC have such a clear path to respectability but it has been an uphill battle since so much of Hardy’s zone simply will never go public.

It's such an uphill battle that its IB percentage has nearly tripled in seven or so years.

Easy to triple when the it used to be so few, long way to go. Most of the increase is people who used to move out of DC but can’t afford private. They don’t really have a better option so much as they chose Hardy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy used to be the main option for kids in the lesser parts of DC allowing them to be funneled to Wilson. When the old administrations started stacking the deck that only accelerated the local families abandoning it more which in turn created more seats for the rest of DC to have a shot at Wilson which always seemed like the intent. Kept Wilson diverse and gave black families who couldn’t afford ward 3 a public path.

Now that so many of the recent home owners are house poor and the good privates are not really for working families anymore, there has been a concerted effort to “reclaim” hardy. A couple of years ago at the fourth of July parade in the palisades , there were hipster parents walking with a “Hardy is good enough for my kids and it’s good enough for yours” banner. Few struggling schools in DC have such a clear path to respectability but it has been an uphill battle since so much of Hardy’s zone simply will never go public.

It's such an uphill battle that its IB percentage has nearly tripled in seven or so years.

Easy to triple when the it used to be so few, long way to go. Most of the increase is people who used to move out of DC but can’t afford private. They don’t really have a better option so much as they chose Hardy

Which is the exact same thing that happened at Deal/Wilson a generation ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy used to be the main option for kids in the lesser parts of DC allowing them to be funneled to Wilson. When the old administrations started stacking the deck that only accelerated the local families abandoning it more which in turn created more seats for the rest of DC to have a shot at Wilson which always seemed like the intent. Kept Wilson diverse and gave black families who couldn’t afford ward 3 a public path.

Now that so many of the recent home owners are house poor and the good privates are not really for working families anymore, there has been a concerted effort to “reclaim” hardy. A couple of years ago at the fourth of July parade in the palisades , there were hipster parents walking with a “Hardy is good enough for my kids and it’s good enough for yours” banner. Few struggling schools in DC have such a clear path to respectability but it has been an uphill battle since so much of Hardy’s zone simply will never go public.

It's such an uphill battle that its IB percentage has nearly tripled in seven or so years.

Easy to triple when the it used to be so few, long way to go. Most of the increase is people who used to move out of DC but can’t afford private. They don’t really have a better option so much as they chose Hardy

This seems like a pretty backhanded way of saying “Hardy is the best middle school option for a growing number of families.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:sigh. in 2016-2017 (for example), hardy was 20% IB. now it is almost 2/3 IB. that is a substantial change over 8 or so years. the percentage of white students has also substantially increased during this same time period.

Have the number of OB whites also increased though? I bet. Seems people here are more concerned w the number of whites rather than IB, and being close to classmates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy used to be the main option for kids in the lesser parts of DC allowing them to be funneled to Wilson. When the old administrations started stacking the deck that only accelerated the local families abandoning it more which in turn created more seats for the rest of DC to have a shot at Wilson which always seemed like the intent. Kept Wilson diverse and gave black families who couldn’t afford ward 3 a public path.

Now that so many of the recent home owners are house poor and the good privates are not really for working families anymore, there has been a concerted effort to “reclaim” hardy. A couple of years ago at the fourth of July parade in the palisades , there were hipster parents walking with a “Hardy is good enough for my kids and it’s good enough for yours” banner. Few struggling schools in DC have such a clear path to respectability but it has been an uphill battle since so much of Hardy’s zone simply will never go public.

It's such an uphill battle that its IB percentage has nearly tripled in seven or so years.

Easy to triple when the it used to be so few, long way to go. Most of the increase is people who used to move out of DC but can’t afford private. They don’t really have a better option so much as they chose Hardy

Show me just one statistic that proves this. Just one.

Or, in the real world, IB buy-in has been strong.

[Anonymous]

I think the number of IB kids of all races has increased a lot. The total number of white kids has also increased a lot. No reason to think the number of OOB white kids has increased at all really (there are no longer as many OOB spots).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the number of IB kids of all races has increased a lot. The total number of white kids has also increased a lot. No reason to think the number of OOB white kids has increased at all really (there are no longer as many OOB spots).

You "think" there is "no reason to think". Hmm. This forum is crawling w white OOB kids yet the assumption is that they are all IB. There is plenty of reason to think the percentage of white OOB kids has increased or is otherwise significant despite assumptions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the number of IB kids of all races has increased a lot. The total number of white kids has also increased a lot. No reason to think the number of OOB white kids has increased at all really (there are no longer as many OOB spots).

You "think" there is "no reason to think". Hmm. This forum is crawling w white OOB kids yet the assumption is that they are all IB. There is plenty of reason to think the percentage of white OOB kids has increased or is otherwise significant despite assumptions.

We are one of those families (still at a feeder). H-A and other Hardy feeders less competitive than Deal feeders have long been a back up option for EOTP families that don’t want to compromise on school quality and also don’t want to/can’t move out of the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the number of IB kids of all races has increased a lot. The total number of white kids has also increased a lot. No reason to think the number of OOB white kids has increased at all really (there are no longer as many OOB spots).

You "think" there is "no reason to think". Hmm. This forum is crawling w white OOB kids yet the assumption is that they are all IB. There is plenty of reason to think the percentage of white OOB kids has increased or is otherwise significant despite assumptions.

We are one of those families (still at a feeder). H-A and other Hardy feeders less competitive than Deal feeders have long been a back up option for EOTP families that don’t want to compromise on school quality and also don’t want to/can’t move out of the city.

And we are an EOTP family that specifically chose a Hardy feeder due to preference NOT to go to Deal (too big).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the number of IB kids of all races has increased a lot. The total number of white kids has also increased a lot. No reason to think the number of OOB white kids has increased at all really (there are no longer as many OOB spots).

You "think" there is "no reason to think". Hmm. This forum is crawling w white OOB kids yet the assumption is that they are all IB. There is plenty of reason to think the percentage of white OOB kids has increased or is otherwise significant despite assumptions.

We are one of those families (still at a feeder). H-A and other Hardy feeders less competitive than Deal feeders have long been a back up option for EOTP families that don’t want to compromise on school quality and also don’t want to/can’t move out of the city.

And we are an EOTP family that specifically chose a Hardy feeder due to preference NOT to go to Deal (too big).

Same. The only thing Deal and JR have over Hardy and MacArthur for us is the metro accessible location. Even with the high school unproven because it’s so new (though I have confidence in it, especially since we have 6 years til we would be there) the small size is going to be way better for our very sensitive kiddo.