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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am sick and tired of all the bashing and trashing on Hardy. I'm sorry that in boundary families don't have access to your precious Deal, but where do you get off turning your nose up at a school that is good enough for the rest of us and better than other middle schools in DC? I'm ok if more neighborhood families come to Hardy, but it will continue to get better and better even without your kids and their great test scores, so I won't cry if you don't. Like Dr. Henderson said, it's a free country and you can move out of DCPS if it doesn't work for you. But if you come to Hardy,don't act all entitled and expect to start running things and change everything like the uniforms or demand stuff like Ancient Greek or whatever. Lots of parents are happy with the school today.

They already are coming, apparently, and more will do so next year, despite the bashers. And yes, they will want to change things. Its one thing to say you can't ask for changes to a school when your kids don't attend, but that argument won't carry much weight when their kids DO attend.

Valid point. Families that are not attending to and have no intention to attend Hardy have a hard case to make if they are trying to make changes to the school that are not supported by the families that do attend. But if they do attend or plan to attend then they have the right - indeed, the responsibility - to push for changes they support.

IB or OOB your voice for change at Hardy is stronger if you are in fact a Hardy family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am sick and tired of all the bashing and trashing on Hardy. I'm sorry that in boundary families don't have access to your precious Deal, but where do you get off turning your nose up at a school that is good enough for the rest of us and better than other middle schools in DC? I'm ok if more neighborhood families come to Hardy, but it will continue to get better and better even without your kids and their great test scores, so I won't cry if you don't. Like Dr. Henderson said, it's a free country and you can move out of DCPS if it doesn't work for you. But if you come to Hardy,don't act all entitled and expect to start running things and change everything like the uniforms or demand stuff like Ancient Greek or whatever. Lots of parents are happy with the school today.

I was with you, up until the bit about if you do decide to join us, don't you dare attempt to improve on the status quo. Why does mobilizing for change = acting all entitled? And how is uncritical acceptance of a school's current state ever a benefit to the school community?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am sick and tired of all the bashing and trashing on Hardy. I'm sorry that in boundary families don't have access to your precious Deal, but where do you get off turning your nose up at a school that is good enough for the rest of us and better than other middle schools in DC? I'm ok if more neighborhood families come to Hardy, but it will continue to get better and better even without your kids and their great test scores, so I won't cry if you don't. Like Dr. Henderson said, it's a free country and you can move out of DCPS if it doesn't work for you. But if you come to Hardy,don't act all entitled and expect to start running things and change everything like the uniforms or demand stuff like Ancient Greek or whatever. Lots of parents are happy with the school today.

They already are coming, apparently, and more will do so next year, despite the bashers. And yes, they will want to change things. Its one thing to say you can't ask for changes to a school when your kids don't attend, but that argument won't carry much weight when their kids DO attend.

Valid point. Families that are not attending to and have no intention to attend Hardy have a hard case to make if they are trying to make changes to the school that are not supported by the families that do attend. But if they do attend or plan to attend then they have the right - indeed, the responsibility - to push for changes they support.

IB or OOB your voice for change at Hardy is stronger if you are in fact a Hardy family.

No, it's a public school. It belongs to all of the citizens of DC, every citizen has a voice in how their tax dollars are spent. That's how democracy works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am sick and tired of all the bashing and trashing on Hardy. I'm sorry that in boundary families don't have access to your precious Deal, but where do you get off turning your nose up at a school that is good enough for the rest of us and better than other middle schools in DC? I'm ok if more neighborhood families come to Hardy, but it will continue to get better and better even without your kids and their great test scores, so I won't cry if you don't. Like Dr. Henderson said, it's a free country and you can move out of DCPS if it doesn't work for you. But if you come to Hardy,don't act all entitled and expect to start running things and change everything like the uniforms or demand stuff like Ancient Greek or whatever. Lots of parents are happy with the school today.

I was with you, up until the bit about if you do decide to join us, don't you dare attempt to improve on the status quo. Why does mobilizing for change = acting all entitled? And how is uncritical acceptance of a school's current state ever a benefit to the school community?

She/he does have a point. I am Hardy IB mom but I know what she/he is talking about: the legitimate fear of an entitlement attitude which confines with threats that we sometimes hear from IB prospective parents ("If and when my kid will be in, I wanna see the uniforms disappear before the school year ends").

I would love to see more IB kids in the school but just because this would make playdates and hanging out easier for my kid ("see you at the Jelleff pool", "see you to play tennis at the school court" etc) Besides this, I am very happy with the more laid back mod of the school, compared to my upbeat IB elementary schools and all the paranoia of fundraising, Box Tops, 5 emails/day from school/teacher/parents/PTO. Academically my kid is thriving, is growing as a mature, aware and critical thinker, and fast math processor thanks to the SEM/advanced math classes. Honestly I prefer this mix, than next year's potentially even larger wave of IB parents, who will immediately launch their SurveyMonkey to abolish uniforms (I love uniforms too and for my kid uniform is not even an issue) .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am sick and tired of all the bashing and trashing on Hardy. I'm sorry that in boundary families don't have access to your precious Deal, but where do you get off turning your nose up at a school that is good enough for the rest of us and better than other middle schools in DC? I'm ok if more neighborhood families come to Hardy, but it will continue to get better and better even without your kids and their great test scores, so I won't cry if you don't. Like Dr. Henderson said, it's a free country and you can move out of DCPS if it doesn't work for you. But if you come to Hardy,don't act all entitled and expect to start running things and change everything like the uniforms or demand stuff like Ancient Greek or whatever. Lots of parents are happy with the school today.

I was with you, up until the bit about if you do decide to join us, don't you dare attempt to improve on the status quo. Why does mobilizing for change = acting all entitled? And how is uncritical acceptance of a school's current state ever a benefit to the school community?

She/he does have a point. I am Hardy IB mom but I know what she/he is talking about: the legitimate fear of an entitlement attitude which confines with threats that we sometimes hear from IB prospective parents ("If and when my kid will be in, I wanna see the uniforms disappear before the school year ends").

I would love to see more IB kids in the school but just because this would make playdates and hanging out easier for my kid ("see you at the Jelleff pool", "see you to play tennis at the school court" etc) Besides this, I am very happy with the more laid back mod of the school, compared to my upbeat IB elementary schools and all the paranoia of fundraising, Box Tops, 5 emails/day from school/teacher/parents/PTO. Academically my kid is thriving, is growing as a mature, aware and critical thinker, and fast math processor thanks to the SEM/advanced math classes. Honestly I prefer this mix, than next year's potentially even larger wave of IB parents, who will immediately launch their SurveyMonkey to abolish uniforms (I love uniforms too and for my kid uniform is not even an issue) .

The commitment to raise funds should not be associated with paranoia: it's hard work and is necessary for improving the school. Indeed, it's how every-day folks improve their lot in life. It's how you take an acceptable situation and make it amazing. If I were a Hardy parent, I would look forward to raising money, box tops, emails, and everything else necessary to meet that end. Yes, emotions are a natural result of hard work; but I don't think it's helpful to put such a spin on it; and frankly is disrespectful to the wonderful feeder school you came from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am sick and tired of all the bashing and trashing on Hardy. I'm sorry that in boundary families don't have access to your precious Deal, but where do you get off turning your nose up at a school that is good enough for the rest of us and better than other middle schools in DC? I'm ok if more neighborhood families come to Hardy, but it will continue to get better and better even without your kids and their great test scores, so I won't cry if you don't. Like Dr. Henderson said, it's a free country and you can move out of DCPS if it doesn't work for you. But if you come to Hardy,don't act all entitled and expect to start running things and change everything like the uniforms or demand stuff like Ancient Greek or whatever. Lots of parents are happy with the school today.

I was with you, up until the bit about if you do decide to join us, don't you dare attempt to improve on the status quo. Why does mobilizing for change = acting all entitled? And how is uncritical acceptance of a school's current state ever a benefit to the school community?

She/he does have a point. I am Hardy IB mom but I know what she/he is talking about: the legitimate fear of an entitlement attitude which confines with threats that we sometimes hear from IB prospective parents ("If and when my kid will be in, I wanna see the uniforms disappear before the school year ends").

I would love to see more IB kids in the school but just because this would make playdates and hanging out easier for my kid ("see you at the Jelleff pool", "see you to play tennis at the school court" etc) Besides this, I am very happy with the more laid back mod of the school, compared to my upbeat IB elementary schools and all the paranoia of fundraising, Box Tops, 5 emails/day from school/teacher/parents/PTO. Academically my kid is thriving, is growing as a mature, aware and critical thinker, and fast math processor thanks to the SEM/advanced math classes. Honestly I prefer this mix, than next year's potentially even larger wave of IB parents, who will immediately launch their SurveyMonkey to abolish uniforms (I love uniforms too and for my kid uniform is not even an issue) .

The commitment to raise funds should not be associated with paranoia: it's hard work and is necessary for improving the school. Indeed, it's how every-day folks improve their lot in life. It's how you take an acceptable situation and make it amazing. If I were a Hardy parent, I would look forward to raising money, box tops, emails, and everything else necessary to meet that end. Yes, emotions are a natural result of hard work; but I don't think it's helpful to put such a spin on it; and frankly is disrespectful to the wonderful feeder school you came from.

That's a good reason for more IB families at Hardy, who will be looked to for fundraising.

[Anonymous]

And if those IB families have a problem with the uniform, so what? What would be so terrible about people lobbying for a change in dress code? (It seems like PP is less concerned with any actual change in the dress code, and more with the arrival of a cohort of families uppity enough to think that they're empowered to call for change.)

Signed, mom of daycare-age kids who's fine with uniforms in middle school or without them, either way

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am sick and tired of all the bashing and trashing on Hardy. I'm sorry that in boundary families don't have access to your precious Deal, but where do you get off turning your nose up at a school that is good enough for the rest of us and better than other middle schools in DC? I'm ok if more neighborhood families come to Hardy, but it will continue to get better and better even without your kids and their great test scores, so I won't cry if you don't. Like Dr. Henderson said, it's a free country and you can move out of DCPS if it doesn't work for you. But if you come to Hardy,don't act all entitled and expect to start running things and change everything like the uniforms or demand stuff like Ancient Greek or whatever. Lots of parents are happy with the school today.

I was with you, up until the bit about if you do decide to join us, don't you dare attempt to improve on the status quo. Why does mobilizing for change = acting all entitled? And how is uncritical acceptance of a school's current state ever a benefit to the school community?

She/he does have a point. I am Hardy IB mom but I know what she/he is talking about: the legitimate fear of an entitlement attitude which confines with threats that we sometimes hear from IB prospective parents ("If and when my kid will be in, I wanna see the uniforms disappear before the school year ends").

I would love to see more IB kids in the school but just because this would make playdates and hanging out easier for my kid ("see you at the Jelleff pool", "see you to play tennis at the school court" etc) Besides this, I am very happy with the more laid back mod of the school, compared to my upbeat IB elementary schools and all the paranoia of fundraising, Box Tops, 5 emails/day from school/teacher/parents/PTO. Academically my kid is thriving, is growing as a mature, aware and critical thinker, and fast math processor thanks to the SEM/advanced math classes. Honestly I prefer this mix, than next year's potentially even larger wave of IB parents, who will immediately launch their SurveyMonkey to abolish uniforms (I love uniforms too and for my kid uniform is not even an issue) .

The commitment to raise funds should not be associated with paranoia: it's hard work and is necessary for improving the school. Indeed, it's how every-day folks improve their lot in life. It's how you take an acceptable situation and make it amazing. If I were a Hardy parent, I would look forward to raising money, box tops, emails, and everything else necessary to meet that end. Yes, emotions are a natural result of hard work; but I don't think it's helpful to put such a spin on it; and frankly is disrespectful to the wonderful feeder school you came from.

That's a good reason for more IB families at Hardy, who will be looked to for fundraising.

Hopefully the old line community attitude will not be "pay up and shut up."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While we can't yet be sure of the accuracy of the claim of 50 IB in 6th grade, it seems to me that if that is true, there may well more who will make that choice next year. And probably some additional from the change in feeder patterns. Sees like Hardy could easily be 50% IB in 6th grade next year, with most of the rest being well-prepared OOB students (of whatever skin color) from Hardy feeders.

At that point one would have to consider Hardy to be "flipped" I guess.

Look at the size of the fifth grades in the feeder school. Even if Hardy achieved Deal-like levels of in-boundary participation it's never going to be 50% IB. Deal has more than twice as many kids in the feeder schools per seat in the middle school and has 65% IB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am sick and tired of all the bashing and trashing on Hardy. I'm sorry that in boundary families don't have access to your precious Deal, but where do you get off turning your nose up at a school that is good enough for the rest of us and better than other middle schools in DC? I'm ok if more neighborhood families come to Hardy, but it will continue to get better and better even without your kids and their great test scores, so I won't cry if you don't. Like Dr. Henderson said, it's a free country and you can move out of DCPS if it doesn't work for you. But if you come to Hardy,don't act all entitled and expect to start running things and change everything like the uniforms or demand stuff like Ancient Greek or whatever. Lots of parents are happy with the school today.

Henderson is not a "Doctor" of anything. She has a master's in Leadership from Georgetown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While we can't yet be sure of the accuracy of the claim of 50 IB in 6th grade, it seems to me that if that is true, there may well more who will make that choice next year. And probably some additional from the change in feeder patterns. Sees like Hardy could easily be 50% IB in 6th grade next year, with most of the rest being well-prepared OOB students (of whatever skin color) from Hardy feeders.

At that point one would have to consider Hardy to be "flipped" I guess.

Look at the size of the fifth grades in the feeder school. Even if Hardy achieved Deal-like levels of in-boundary participation it's never going to be 50% IB. Deal has more than twice as many kids in the feeder schools per seat in the middle school and has 65% IB.

Not necessarily true -- the 5th grade classes at the Hardy feeders are low because the kids bolt after 4th grade. If parents see the promise of Hardy, they will stay through 5th. We'll see if the numbers fill out in next year's 5th grade classes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most are concerned with academic proficiency, but is it so wrong to want your child to go to school with at least some kids -- whatever race -- who live in your neighborhood? For me, part of the reason for opting public school over private is the benefit of going to a neighborhood school. OOB kids can certainly fit into that picture, but if a school is largely OOB, then you completely lose the benefits of a neighborhood school. My DC LOVED walking to Eaton with neighborhood friends and also having playdates with IB and OOB friends, but without an IB cohort, it just would not have been the same. I don't think it makes me a racist to want to send my child to a school with some neighborhood connection.

Most of the city agrees, looking at the reaction to the DME proposal.

I completely agree. I am not denying that racism exists in this city/country. But it is ridiculous to suggest that people are racist because they want to see more truly IB kids in the school. People who want a neighborhood school, want a school where their neighbors' kids go. They don't want to attend a school that happens to be in their neighborhood but whose student body comes from all 8 wards. If they wanted that, then they would attend charters. I have nothing against charters - glad they are there as options. But for those of us who want neighborhood schools, this means not only that the school is in the neighborhood, but also that most of the neighborhood kids go there.

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to understand, or why some people impute the worst motives for this. It's almost as if the charter movement has made people forget the neighbrohood schools of our childhoods or something, I don't know. Again, nothing against charters, but I am a big believer in neighborhood schools.

You're mostly right, but I'll point out the inconvenient fact that more kids who are in-boundary for Hardy attend Basis and Latin than Hardy. School quality matters too.

Exactly, PP. I'll make the obvious point that those families are not attracted to Latin and BASIS because of the low OOB numbers or low AA population.

I'll add that Pride's plan for improving the quality of Hardy is to increase the IB percentage. It's a good plan. Once Hardy is 70% IB or higher, it will give Latin, BASIS and perhaps Deal a run for their money.

However, the plan poses chicken-or-egg dilemma. The grass-roots campaign to boost IB enrollment that is underway is admirable and will eventually succeed. However, its seems unnecessarily drawn-out.

I've been lambasted for making this point before, but here it is: The fastest way to turn Hardy back into a neighborhood school is to cut it's enrollment significantly, e.g., 100 kids.

You're going to be lambasted again, and deservingly so. The self-serving "take care of my snowflake and screw the city in the process" of your POV is breath-taking.

Apparently this is tough for people like you to understand, but when the majority of DCPS's students are below grade level, then shutting off an escape valve (such as Hardy) is educational malpractice. If your snowflake is too good to share a school with the refugees, then:

A) move
B) go private
C) apply to the charters which are already better than Hardy anyway

but in any case:

for the love of your child SHUT UP and don't ever talk in public like you do on DCUM. You racist, douchebag prick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most are concerned with academic proficiency, but is it so wrong to want your child to go to school with at least some kids -- whatever race -- who live in your neighborhood? For me, part of the reason for opting public school over private is the benefit of going to a neighborhood school. OOB kids can certainly fit into that picture, but if a school is largely OOB, then you completely lose the benefits of a neighborhood school. My DC LOVED walking to Eaton with neighborhood friends and also having playdates with IB and OOB friends, but without an IB cohort, it just would not have been the same. I don't think it makes me a racist to want to send my child to a school with some neighborhood connection.

Most of the city agrees, looking at the reaction to the DME proposal.

I completely agree. I am not denying that racism exists in this city/country. But it is ridiculous to suggest that people are racist because they want to see more truly IB kids in the school. People who want a neighborhood school, want a school where their neighbors' kids go. They don't want to attend a school that happens to be in their neighborhood but whose student body comes from all 8 wards. If they wanted that, then they would attend charters. I have nothing against charters - glad they are there as options. But for those of us who want neighborhood schools, this means not only that the school is in the neighborhood, but also that most of the neighborhood kids go there.

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to understand, or why some people impute the worst motives for this. It's almost as if the charter movement has made people forget the neighbrohood schools of our childhoods or something, I don't know. Again, nothing against charters, but I am a big believer in neighborhood schools.

You're mostly right, but I'll point out the inconvenient fact that more kids who are in-boundary for Hardy attend Basis and Latin than Hardy. School quality matters too.

Exactly, PP. I'll make the obvious point that those families are not attracted to Latin and BASIS because of the low OOB numbers or low AA population.

I'll add that Pride's plan for improving the quality of Hardy is to increase the IB percentage. It's a good plan. Once Hardy is 70% IB or higher, it will give Latin, BASIS and perhaps Deal a run for their money.

However, the plan poses chicken-or-egg dilemma. The grass-roots campaign to boost IB enrollment that is underway is admirable and will eventually succeed. However, its seems unnecessarily drawn-out.

I've been lambasted for making this point before, but here it is: The fastest way to turn Hardy back into a neighborhood school is to cut it's enrollment significantly, e.g., 100 kids.

I don't think that's necessarily true. One of the reasons Deal is attractive is that it has a large enough student body to have a wealth of extracurricular offerings. Small schools can never quite compete on that metric.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most are concerned with academic proficiency, but is it so wrong to want your child to go to school with at least some kids -- whatever race -- who live in your neighborhood? For me, part of the reason for opting public school over private is the benefit of going to a neighborhood school. OOB kids can certainly fit into that picture, but if a school is largely OOB, then you completely lose the benefits of a neighborhood school. My DC LOVED walking to Eaton with neighborhood friends and also having playdates with IB and OOB friends, but without an IB cohort, it just would not have been the same. I don't think it makes me a racist to want to send my child to a school with some neighborhood connection.

Most of the city agrees, looking at the reaction to the DME proposal.

I completely agree. I am not denying that racism exists in this city/country. But it is ridiculous to suggest that people are racist because they want to see more truly IB kids in the school. People who want a neighborhood school, want a school where their neighbors' kids go. They don't want to attend a school that happens to be in their neighborhood but whose student body comes from all 8 wards. If they wanted that, then they would attend charters. I have nothing against charters - glad they are there as options. But for those of us who want neighborhood schools, this means not only that the school is in the neighborhood, but also that most of the neighborhood kids go there.

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to understand, or why some people impute the worst motives for this. It's almost as if the charter movement has made people forget the neighbrohood schools of our childhoods or something, I don't know. Again, nothing against charters, but I am a big believer in neighborhood schools.

You're mostly right, but I'll point out the inconvenient fact that more kids who are in-boundary for Hardy attend Basis and Latin than Hardy. School quality matters too.

Exactly, PP. I'll make the obvious point that those families are not attracted to Latin and BASIS because of the low OOB numbers or low AA population.

I'll add that Pride's plan for improving the quality of Hardy is to increase the IB percentage. It's a good plan. Once Hardy is 70% IB or higher, it will give Latin, BASIS and perhaps Deal a run for their money.

However, the plan poses chicken-or-egg dilemma. The grass-roots campaign to boost IB enrollment that is underway is admirable and will eventually succeed. However, its seems unnecessarily drawn-out.

I've been lambasted for making this point before, but here it is: The fastest way to turn Hardy back into a neighborhood school is to cut it's enrollment significantly, e.g., 100 kids.

You're going to be lambasted again, and deservingly so. The self-serving "take care of my snowflake and screw the city in the process" of your POV is breath-taking.

Apparently this is tough for people like you to understand, but when the majority of DCPS's students are below grade level, then shutting off an escape valve (such as Hardy) is educational malpractice. If your snowflake is too good to share a school with the refugees, then:

A) move
B) go private
C) apply to the charters which are already better than Hardy anyway

but in any case:

for the love of your child SHUT UP and don't ever talk in public like you do on DCUM. You racist, douchebag prick.

Or you can work the system to get your child into Deal, as a number of families who live IB for Hardy have done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most are concerned with academic proficiency, but is it so wrong to want your child to go to school with at least some kids -- whatever race -- who live in your neighborhood? For me, part of the reason for opting public school over private is the benefit of going to a neighborhood school. OOB kids can certainly fit into that picture, but if a school is largely OOB, then you completely lose the benefits of a neighborhood school. My DC LOVED walking to Eaton with neighborhood friends and also having playdates with IB and OOB friends, but without an IB cohort, it just would not have been the same. I don't think it makes me a racist to want to send my child to a school with some neighborhood connection.

Most of the city agrees, looking at the reaction to the DME proposal.

I completely agree. I am not denying that racism exists in this city/country. But it is ridiculous to suggest that people are racist because they want to see more truly IB kids in the school. People who want a neighborhood school, want a school where their neighbors' kids go. They don't want to attend a school that happens to be in their neighborhood but whose student body comes from all 8 wards. If they wanted that, then they would attend charters. I have nothing against charters - glad they are there as options. But for those of us who want neighborhood schools, this means not only that the school is in the neighborhood, but also that most of the neighborhood kids go there.

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to understand, or why some people impute the worst motives for this. It's almost as if the charter movement has made people forget the neighbrohood schools of our childhoods or something, I don't know. Again, nothing against charters, but I am a big believer in neighborhood schools.

You're mostly right, but I'll point out the inconvenient fact that more kids who are in-boundary for Hardy attend Basis and Latin than Hardy. School quality matters too.

Exactly, PP. I'll make the obvious point that those families are not attracted to Latin and BASIS because of the low OOB numbers or low AA population.

I'll add that Pride's plan for improving the quality of Hardy is to increase the IB percentage. It's a good plan. Once Hardy is 70% IB or higher, it will give Latin, BASIS and perhaps Deal a run for their money.

However, the plan poses chicken-or-egg dilemma. The grass-roots campaign to boost IB enrollment that is underway is admirable and will eventually succeed. However, its seems unnecessarily drawn-out.

I've been lambasted for making this point before, but here it is: The fastest way to turn Hardy back into a neighborhood school is to cut it's enrollment significantly, e.g., 100 kids.

You're going to be lambasted again, and deservingly so. The self-serving "take care of my snowflake and screw the city in the process" of your POV is breath-taking.

Apparently this is tough for people like you to understand, but when the majority of DCPS's students are below grade level, then shutting off an escape valve (such as Hardy) is educational malpractice. If your snowflake is too good to share a school with the refugees, then:

A) move
B) go private
C) apply to the charters which are already better than Hardy anyway

but in any case:

for the love of your child SHUT UP and don't ever talk in public like you do on DCUM. You racist, douchebag prick.

you don't want your child to share a school with the below grade level kids I take it?