Redrawing the boundaries: isn't Oyster perfect to move to Hardy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The point is, no one in upper Northwest wants to send their kids to Hardy. Michelle Rhee tried to attract more families by attempting to clean house at Hardy, but the out of bounds families fought her. Until someone takes a broom to Hardy's administration, much of its faculty and its most disruptive students, the situation will not change.

Untrue and outdated statement. 25% of Horace Mann families are sending their kids to Hardy this year (we are one of those families). Approx. counts show that no less than 30 families from feeder school will go to Hardy this year. Shut up if you do not know what you are talking about.

Then why is the Horace Mann community making an all-out lobbying effort to get into Deal. I've heard some parents say, "It's our turn now."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The point is, no one in upper Northwest wants to send their kids to Hardy. Michelle Rhee tried to attract more families by attempting to clean house at Hardy, but the out of bounds families fought her. Until someone takes a broom to Hardy's administration, much of its faculty and its most disruptive students, the situation will not change.

Untrue and outdated statement. 25% of Horace Mann families are sending their kids to Hardy this year (we are one of those families). Approx. counts show that no less than 30 families from feeder school will go to Hardy this year. Shut up if you do not know what you are talking about.

Glad to hear it. 25% of 5th graders = how many kids from Mann? Most charter-bound kids would have already moved last year after 4th grade, presumably, so that leaves the remaining kids with private school, moving to MoCo, or Hardy (and maybe 1 or 2 who slip in at a charter).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The point is, no one in upper Northwest wants to send their kids to Hardy. Michelle Rhee tried to attract more families by attempting to clean house at Hardy, but the out of bounds families fought her. Until someone takes a broom to Hardy's administration, much of its faculty and its most disruptive students, the situation will not change.

Untrue and outdated statement. 25% of Horace Mann families are sending their kids to Hardy this year (we are one of those families). Approx. counts show that no less than 30 families from feeder school will go to Hardy this year. Shut up if you do not know what you are talking about.

Then why is the Horace Mann community making an all-out lobbying effort to get into Deal. I've heard some parents say, "It's our turn now."

Oh, nonsense. (NP here by the way.) Just because someone anonymously posts in an online forum saying, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, "It's our turn now" is nary a reason to impute any significance.

To illustrate: I'm a Bancroft mom, and it's our turn for Deal! Come on, people, I've been talking about it with other parents, and we all agree: DCPS needs to move Bancroft to Deal. Pressure your ANC members. Go to the focus groups. Let our voice be heard!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The point is, no one in upper Northwest wants to send their kids to Hardy. Michelle Rhee tried to attract more families by attempting to clean house at Hardy, but the out of bounds families fought her. Until someone takes a broom to Hardy's administration, much of its faculty and its most disruptive students, the situation will not change.

Untrue and outdated statement. 25% of Horace Mann families are sending their kids to Hardy this year (we are one of those families). Approx. counts show that no less than 30 families from feeder school will go to Hardy this year. Shut up if you do not know what you are talking about.

What does 25% work out to? 6 (or less) kids right?

[Anonymous]

Current fifth grade Mann families lobbying to get into Deal = totally invented story.
I am IB Mann and have been part of the several 5th grade parents discussions on MS options. Our Principal has made clear from the beginning that Deal was not an option for us (unless we moved to the east side of Massachusetts Ave). All discussions about DCPS MSs have always focused on Hardy, and of a few well-defined and concerted requests to ask DCPS and Principal Pride.
25% of the current class are 6 kids, who are going to Hardy this year, but there's a couple of additional families who might has well. Plus there's families who left at the end of fourth grade, who are not happy with their current charter/private school, and who will turn to Hardy for 6th grade. For instance, tough academically happy with the charters they are attending, parents had underestimated the toll on the kids and on the family of the daily commute to, for instance, Latin (1 1/2 hour a day, with bus leaving from Tenleytown at 7:00 am) and now place a higher value on the neighborhod school.
Anyone interested in Hardy as sixth grade option for next year,and would like a parent-to-parent exchange, can send an email to [e-mail]. Personal signed emails will be answered with personal/signed replies, so that All can be sure we are no trolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The point is, no one in upper Northwest wants to send their kids to Hardy. Michelle Rhee tried to attract more families by attempting to clean house at Hardy, but the out of bounds families fought her. Until someone takes a broom to Hardy's administration, much of its faculty and its most disruptive students, the situation will not change.

Untrue and outdated statement. 25% of Horace Mann families are sending their kids to Hardy this year (we are one of those families). Approx. counts show that no less than 30 families from feeder school will go to Hardy this year. Shut up if you do not know what you are talking about.

Not the PP, but good to know. If Hardy is good enough for Mann, then it's easily good enough for Oyster!!

[Anonymous]

Would it help if Ross were moved to feed Hardy, too? That would be seen as an improvement by many Ross families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it's so small, it should be done. They need to make things less complicated.

Oyster no longer feeds to Deal as a school, and the number of kids in-bounds for both schools who choose to attend Deal is hardly significant. But these kids number among Deal's strongest students and would not be well served at either Adams or Hardy.

Compared to the students from Janney, Murch, and Lafayette, they don't actually stand out at Deal. Their peers from Key and Mann would no doubt welcome them at Hardy, though.

I'd actually say the Lafayette kids don't stand out, except as either sporty or ditzy. The Murch and Oyster kids are the most engaged students, along with some of the Janney kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there no buses from Woodley to Hardy? Somehow all those OOB kids manage to find their way to Hardy. How do they do it?

Okay, I have no dog in this fight, but, no, there are no buses from Woodley to Hardy. In fact, it is a huge transit gap for this swath of DC. There are many, many north-south bus routes, but there are very few east-west runs. I had to figure this out for a friend visiting and the "best" way was to...take a bus to Tenleytown, then metro to Woodley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would it help if Ross were moved to feed Hardy, too? That would be seen as an improvement by many Ross families.

hardy har har. Ross! I think you've used up all your lobbying goodwill. With the entitled attitudes you're brought to the game, I doubt you'll have any luck escaping the gravitational pull of Cardozo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it's so small, it should be done. They need to make things less complicated.

Oyster no longer feeds to Deal as a school, and the number of kids in-bounds for both schools who choose to attend Deal is hardly significant. But these kids number among Deal's strongest students and would not be well served at either Adams or Hardy.

Compared to the students from Janney, Murch, and Lafayette, they don't actually stand out at Deal. Their peers from Key and Mann would no doubt welcome them at Hardy, though.

I'd actually say the Lafayette kids don't stand out, except as either sporty or ditzy. The Murch and Oyster kids are the most engaged students, along with some of the Janney kids.

I hope this characterization of children by their school was sarcastic. This is really insulting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no buses from Woodley to Hardy? Somehow all those OOB kids manage to find their way to Hardy. How do they do it?

Okay, I have no dog in this fight, but, no, there are no buses from Woodley to Hardy. In fact, it is a huge transit gap for this swath of DC. There are many, many north-south bus routes, but there are very few east-west runs. I had to figure this out for a friend visiting and the "best" way was to...take a bus to Tenleytown, then metro to Woodley.

The privileged will need to sacrifice for One City, my friend. Make do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no buses from Woodley to Hardy? Somehow all those OOB kids manage to find their way to Hardy. How do they do it?

Okay, I have no dog in this fight, but, no, there are no buses from Woodley to Hardy. In fact, it is a huge transit gap for this swath of DC. There are many, many north-south bus routes, but there are very few east-west runs. I had to figure this out for a friend visiting and the "best" way was to...take a bus to Tenleytown, then metro to Woodley.

Maybe now Woodley Park will beg DC to reopen Klingle Road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it's so small, it should be done. They need to make things less complicated.

Oyster no longer feeds to Deal as a school, and the number of kids in-bounds for both schools who choose to attend Deal is hardly significant. But these kids number among Deal's strongest students and would not be well served at either Adams or Hardy.

Compared to the students from Janney, Murch, and Lafayette, they don't actually stand out at Deal. Their peers from Key and Mann would no doubt welcome them at Hardy, though.

This made me vomit in my mouth a little.

[Anonymous]

These are elementary school kids people, have some civility.