Eaton Thrown Under the Bus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eaton parent here: If Principal Pride can improve Hardy in the ways she is proposing and STAYS AT HARDY, I think that prospective Hardy students and families may be pleasantly surprised. I would much rather send my child to a smaller MS than Deal anyway. All of this being said, I am far more concerned with the uncertainty of what high school my child may go to despite living just over a mile from Wilson.

I have a child at Eaton and Deal. I like everyone would prefer to keep the current option of being able to choose between the two, but I am not going to picket for keeping Deal. Deal is getting too large, I have seen problems over the last two years in many respect with how it can do small things, serve lunch, provide access to computers and libraries. But then I have never been someone who takes every issue as a reason to move to the burbs.

This is VERY well put. Reasonable parents like you will help make these changes viable, for example under the B plan. I really think once the IB parents get involved, Hardy will be fantastic. Eaton itself and Hearst have had dramatic turnarounds recently, I think Hardy will do the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eaton parent here: If Principal Pride can improve Hardy in the ways she is proposing and STAYS AT HARDY, I think that prospective Hardy students and families may be pleasantly surprised. I would much rather send my child to a smaller MS than Deal anyway. All of this being said, I am far more concerned with the uncertainty of what high school my child may go to despite living just over a mile from Wilson.

I have a child at Eaton and Deal. I like everyone would prefer to keep the current option of being able to choose between the two, but I am not going to picket for keeping Deal. Deal is getting too large, I have seen problems over the last two years in many respect with how it can do small things, serve lunch, provide access to computers and libraries. But then I have never been someone who takes every issue as a reason to move to the burbs.

Well, if you don't speak up, attend meetings and occasionally even picket in DC, you do pretty much get thrown under the bus. When my kids were at Eaton, the school thought they would never get a new playground because they figured Eaton didn't "deserve" any funds from DCPS and that the the parents would have to raise all the money themselves. When Mann was scheduled for it's second playground renovation, some Eaton parents finally had the gumption to ask Fenty and Mary Cheh to fix the playground. And, voila, a new one was built.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When Proposal B talks about Hardy switching to a "New" high school, it is not clear whether it is talking about a newly built high school or a different high school, which would be new to Hardy students. It is doubtful that DC would build a new school in Ward 3 given the underutilization of other high schools throughout the city. In that case, Hardy would leap-frog over other neighborhoods that feed into Wilson in order to go to a high school to the East.

It would be a NEW HIGH SCHOOL LOCATED IN WARD 2 OR 3. PERIOD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When Proposal B talks about Hardy switching to a "New" high school, it is not clear whether it is talking about a newly built high school or a different high school, which would be new to Hardy students. It is doubtful that DC would build a new school in Ward 3 given the underutilization of other high schools throughout the city. In that case, Hardy would leap-frog over other neighborhoods that feed into Wilson in order to go to a high school to the East.

It would be a NEW HIGH SCHOOL LOCATED IN WARD 2 OR 3. PERIOD.

Source?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When Proposal B talks about Hardy switching to a "New" high school, it is not clear whether it is talking about a newly built high school or a different high school, which would be new to Hardy students. It is doubtful that DC would build a new school in Ward 3 given the underutilization of other high schools throughout the city. In that case, Hardy would leap-frog over other neighborhoods that feed into Wilson in order to go to a high school to the East.

It would be a NEW HIGH SCHOOL LOCATED IN WARD 2 OR 3. PERIOD.

Source?

The Department of Wishful Thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When Proposal B talks about Hardy switching to a "New" high school, it is not clear whether it is talking about a newly built high school or a different high school, which would be new to Hardy students. It is doubtful that DC would build a new school in Ward 3 given the underutilization of other high schools throughout the city. In that case, Hardy would leap-frog over other neighborhoods that feed into Wilson in order to go to a high school to the East.

It would be a NEW HIGH SCHOOL LOCATED IN WARD 2 OR 3. PERIOD.

Source?

Last paragraph of Policy B, and from public comments when the "proposals" were released:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-releases-proposed-school-boundaries-and-far-reaching-student-assignment-policies/2014/04/05/368521e0-bc46-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When Proposal B talks about Hardy switching to a "New" high school, it is not clear whether it is talking about a newly built high school or a different high school, which would be new to Hardy students. It is doubtful that DC would build a new school in Ward 3 given the underutilization of other high schools throughout the city. In that case, Hardy would leap-frog over other neighborhoods that feed into Wilson in order to go to a high school to the East.

It would be a NEW HIGH SCHOOL LOCATED IN WARD 2 OR 3. PERIOD.

Source?

Last paragraph of Policy B, and from public comments when the "proposals" were released:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-releases-proposed-school-boundaries-and-far-reaching-student-assignment-policies/2014/04/05/368521e0-bc46-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html

Can you supply the quote because I don't see it. And "Public" comments made in response to a proposal are frankly meaningless as to DCPS plans or intent

[Anonymous]

"The exceptions would be Eaton Elementary, which would feed Hardy Middle and then Wilson, and Oyster-Adams Bilingual, a K-8 school that would send students to Cardozo High School. The scenario also considers the possibility of a new high school in Northwest to relieve the pressure on Wilson, the only comprehensive high school west of Rock Creek Park."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again, if that happens (Hardy moved out of Wilson cluster) when would it take effect? Should this be a concern for current Hardy students or is this dependent on the creation of a new HS, which could take years?

Hardy being moved out of the Wilson cluster is not even on the table right now - if it ever was. It is not part of any of the proposals on the table that maintain feeder rights. So this red herring can be ignored.

[Anonymous]

Let me try to understand this. Eaton is being thrown under bus because Deal is overcrowded and 64 percent of Eaton students are OOB? Cry me a river.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me try to understand this. Eaton is being thrown under bus because Deal is overcrowded and 64 percent of Eaton students are OOB? Cry me a river.

So you are saying that John Eaton is expendable because OOB are somehow less deserving of a Deal education? That's rich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me try to understand this. Eaton is being thrown under bus because Deal is overcrowded and 64 percent of Eaton students are OOB? Cry me a river.

The OOB status has nothing to do with this. The school should be moved to Hardy to relieve pressure, but due to geography and the existing option to go to Hardy, not the OOB status of students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, if that happens (Hardy moved out of Wilson cluster) when would it take effect? Should this be a concern for current Hardy students or is this dependent on the creation of a new HS, which could take years?

Hardy being moved out of the Wilson cluster is not even on the table right now - if it ever was. It is not part of any of the proposals on the table that maintain feeder rights. So this red herring can be ignored.

Hon', none of these proposals was on the table a year ago.....

[Anonymous]

Thrown Under the Bus? Really? Eaton is closer to Hardy than Deal. I have long wondered why Eaton fed into Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The exceptions would be Eaton Elementary, which would feed Hardy Middle and then Wilson, and Oyster-Adams Bilingual, a K-8 school that would send students to Cardozo High School. The scenario also considers the possibility of a new high school in Northwest to relieve the pressure on Wilson, the only comprehensive high school west of Rock Creek Park."

I know that some often equate Northwest with west of Rock Creek Park, but NW extends all the way to North Capitol Street. i wouldn't consider it at all likely that a new high school will be built in Ward 3 or western Ward 2.