Hardy 6th = 35% feeder school kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello? This is such a circular thread. No, only 35% of feeder children go to Hardy (reportedly) regardless of IB or OOB-- they are feeder kids.

Actually, it's 35% of the kids who go to Hardy come from feeder schools. Same numerator, different denominator.

That's if you believe the unattributed 35% number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The IB kids at feeders are largely not going to Hardy.

But do almost all of the OOB kids at the feeders continue on to Hardy?

At my school the OOB kids were generally IB for Deal, they all went there. The small number of kids who went on to Hardy were IB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The IB kids at feeders are largely not going to Hardy.

But do almost all of the OOB kids at the feeders continue on to Hardy?

Just like the IB kids - some do, and some go private instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The IB kids at feeders are largely not going to Hardy.

But do almost all of the OOB kids at the feeders continue on to Hardy?

Just like the IB kids - some do, and some go private instead.

If it's just like the IB kids, only a small minority of OOB feeder students would go to Hardy. Is that really the case?

[Anonymous]

So, let me get this straight: if someone drives their child across the city to attend DCI, they are a motivated parent who will contribute significantly to the school and who has an investment in their child's education, right? But if someone drives their child across the city to attend Hardy, they are interlopers who will bring the test scores down, right?

I've never understood the inherent contradiction identified above. Why is OOB automatically bad? IMHO, Eaton was turned around by motivated OOB parents, who are now no longer welcome at the school now that they made it cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this straight: if someone drives their child across the city to attend DCI, they are a motivated parent who will contribute significantly to the school and who has an investment in their child's education, right? But if someone drives their child across the city to attend Hardy, they are interlopers who will bring the test scores down, right?

I've never understood the inherent contradiction identified above. Why is OOB automatically bad? IMHO, Eaton was turned around by motivated OOB parents, who are now no longer welcome at the school now that they made it cool.

Really well put, pp! Thanks for making that point. ~former Hardy OOB mom (who btw has a PhD)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this straight: if someone drives their child across the city to attend DCI, they are a motivated parent who will contribute significantly to the school and who has an investment in their child's education, right? But if someone drives their child across the city to attend Hardy, they are interlopers who will bring the test scores down, right?

I've never understood the inherent contradiction identified above. Why is OOB automatically bad? IMHO, Eaton was turned around by motivated OOB parents, who are now no longer welcome at the school now that they made it cool.

My (IB) kids went to Eaton. Many of the OOB parents were great, but others were resistant to adding enrichment programs and other offerings. They were afraid that it would attract more IB kids and displace OOB kids over time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this straight: if someone drives their child across the city to attend DCI, they are a motivated parent who will contribute significantly to the school and who has an investment in their child's education, right? But if someone drives their child across the city to attend Hardy, they are interlopers who will bring the test scores down, right?

I've never understood the inherent contradiction identified above. Why is OOB automatically bad? IMHO, Eaton was turned around by motivated OOB parents, who are now no longer welcome at the school now that they made it cool.

My (IB) kids went to Eaton. Many of the OOB parents were great, but others were resistant to adding enrichment programs and other offerings. They were afraid that it would attract more IB kids and displace OOB kids over time.

The opposite is true at Hardy - the OOB parents are supportive of adding enrichment offerings, honors classes, etc. Nobody at Hardy - IB or OOB - has complained about this.*


*Please don't respond to this fact by citing what is now ancient history from 2010-2011. It is not relevant to the Hardy community today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this straight: if someone drives their child across the city to attend DCI, they are a motivated parent who will contribute significantly to the school and who has an investment in their child's education, right? But if someone drives their child across the city to attend Hardy, they are interlopers who will bring the test scores down, right?

I've never understood the inherent contradiction identified above. Why is OOB automatically bad? IMHO, Eaton was turned around by motivated OOB parents, who are now no longer welcome at the school now that they made it cool.

My (IB) kids went to Eaton. Many of the OOB parents were great, but others were resistant to adding enrichment programs and other offerings. They were afraid that it would attract more IB kids and displace OOB kids over time.

The opposite is true at Hardy - the OOB parents are supportive of adding enrichment offerings, honors classes, etc. Nobody at Hardy - IB or OOB - has complained about this.*


*Please don't respond to this fact by citing what is now ancient history from 2010-2011. It is not relevant to the Hardy community today.[/quote]

Hopefully this is true, but some of the old guard teachers are still there. Hardy pretty much needed a gut job to start over. They need to be further along the way to radical transformation.

[Anonymous]

Mann is hosting a talk tomorrow morning with Principal Pride for 4th and 5th grade parents. They [Mann] are also advertising the chili cook off happening at Hardy on Friday.

You'll see significant Mann and Stoddert cohorts at Hardy imminently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this straight: if someone drives their child across the city to attend DCI, they are a motivated parent who will contribute significantly to the school and who has an investment in their child's education, right? But if someone drives their child across the city to attend Hardy, they are interlopers who will bring the test scores down, right?

I've never understood the inherent contradiction identified above. Why is OOB automatically bad? IMHO, Eaton was turned around by motivated OOB parents, who are now no longer welcome at the school now that they made it cool.

My (IB) kids went to Eaton. Many of the OOB parents were great, but others were resistant to adding enrichment programs and other offerings. They were afraid that it would attract more IB kids and displace OOB kids over time.

Is that true? That's crazy. You would try to keep out enrichment programs that your kid would benefit from because you think it will attract IB families? That's messed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mann is hosting a talk tomorrow morning with Principal Pride for 4th and 5th grade parents. They [Mann] are also advertising the chili cook off happening at Hardy on Friday.

You'll see significant Mann and Stoddert cohorts at Hardy imminently.

I will definitely go for the chli. But my kids probably will go somewhere other than Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this straight: if someone drives their child across the city to attend DCI, they are a motivated parent who will contribute significantly to the school and who has an investment in their child's education, right? But if someone drives their child across the city to attend Hardy, they are interlopers who will bring the test scores down, right?

I've never understood the inherent contradiction identified above. Why is OOB automatically bad? IMHO, Eaton was turned around by motivated OOB parents, who are now no longer welcome at the school now that they made it cool.

My (IB) kids went to Eaton. Many of the OOB parents were great, but others were resistant to adding enrichment programs and other offerings. They were afraid that it would attract more IB kids and displace OOB kids over time.

The opposite is true at Hardy - the OOB parents are supportive of adding enrichment offerings, honors classes, etc. Nobody at Hardy - IB or OOB - has complained about this.*


*Please don't respond to this fact by citing what is now ancient history from 2010-2011. It is not relevant to the Hardy community today.

And it wasn't true in 2011 either except in the mind of a paranoid DCUM poster who obsesses about it. ~former Hardy OOB mom again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this straight: if someone drives their child across the city to attend DCI, they are a motivated parent who will contribute significantly to the school and who has an investment in their child's education, right? But if someone drives their child across the city to attend Hardy, they are interlopers who will bring the test scores down, right?

I've never understood the inherent contradiction identified above. Why is OOB automatically bad? IMHO, Eaton was turned around by motivated OOB parents, who are now no longer welcome at the school now that they made it cool.

My (IB) kids went to Eaton. Many of the OOB parents were great, but others were resistant to adding enrichment programs and other offerings. They were afraid that it would attract more IB kids and displace OOB kids over time.

The opposite is true at Hardy - the OOB parents are supportive of adding enrichment offerings, honors classes, etc. Nobody at Hardy - IB or OOB - has complained about this.*


*Please don't respond to this fact by citing what is now ancient history from 2010-2011. It is not relevant to the Hardy community today.

And it wasn't true in 2011 either except in the mind of a paranoid DCUM poster who obsesses about it. ~former Hardy OOB mom again.

I wasn't here at that time. What happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this straight: if someone drives their child across the city to attend DCI, they are a motivated parent who will contribute significantly to the school and who has an investment in their child's education, right? But if someone drives their child across the city to attend Hardy, they are interlopers who will bring the test scores down, right?

I've never understood the inherent contradiction identified above. Why is OOB automatically bad? IMHO, Eaton was turned around by motivated OOB parents, who are now no longer welcome at the school now that they made it cool.

My (IB) kids went to Eaton. Many of the OOB parents were great, but others were resistant to adding enrichment programs and other offerings. They were afraid that it would attract more IB kids and displace OOB kids over time.

I have been at Eaton for 5 years and am an IB parent. I can not speak to what happened prior to our arrival but our experience has been that the OOB parents are just as involved if not even more so than the IB parents. I have never heard of anyone OOB that has not supported enrichment programs. Eaton is a great school and with an amazing community. The OOB families are a very strong part of our community.