Where are this year's Mann graduates going?

[Anonymous]

Forgive my ignorance. My kids are really young so I'm not part of this world yet. Why do so many Mann kids go to privates rather than to Hardy? Is Hardy not very good? Or is Mann particularly amazing, which might entice families who otherwise would go private from the beginning to stay in public for a few years? I'm really not trying to start an argument. Just looking for a simple explanation. It feels like everyone is in on the joke but me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP with 2 kids who went to a JKLM school (not Mann) and then went private. I can think of about 20 of my kids friends who all went to JKLM schools in the last 5 years (including Mann), and they went to: Sidwell, St. Albans, Maret, GDS, Landon, St. Anselm's, Edmund Burke, Field, Potomac, NCS, Holton Arms, and St. John's.

Did the ones that went to suburban schools move or stayed in the city and still sent their kids there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forgive my ignorance. My kids are really young so I'm not part of this world yet. Why do so many Mann kids go to privates rather than to Hardy? Is Hardy not very good? Or is Mann particularly amazing, which might entice families who otherwise would go private from the beginning to stay in public for a few years? I'm really not trying to start an argument. Just looking for a simple explanation. It feels like everyone is in on the joke but me.

Prepare to duck.

For years, very few in-boundary students have gone on to Hardy. If you ask in-boundary families, they say it's because the principal who was there was overtly hostile toward in-boundary families, and because the school was academically undistinguished and unambitious. In December of 2009 Michelle Rhee replaced the principal at the behest of the in-boundary parents.

There has been a persistent group of posters here who are current Hardy parents and teachers who insist that there was nothing wrong with Hardy or its parent, and that the in-boundary parents are motivated by nefarious motives. Part of their argument is that none of the in-boundary kids would go to Hardy anyway.

So be suspicious of the claim that 100% of Mann students go private. I doubt that's true, and I don't know how anyone could know that with certainty.

I've tried to summarize fairly but I'm sure this thread will be 10 pages by morning as every word I've written is refuted, including "of", "the" and "and."

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

"So be suspicious of the claim that 100% of Mann students go private. I doubt that's true, and I don't know how anyone could know that with certainty."

Its completely untrue. I know at least one family with a HHI of less than 60K - there is no way they're going private. And I know several other families who live in the nearby apartments, and I totally doubt they'd be able to afford private. Plus, there are some out-of-bounds kids in the upper grades. Not everyone at Mann has so much money that the cost of private is doable.

[Anonymous]

Actually it's more likely that the family with the HHI of less than $60K would go private, since that kid would probably get substantial financial aid. As long as they applied and had good enough scores to get in, the FFA would come through.