Hardy Middle School -- 5th grade in feeder school -- who's considering Hardy for 6th?
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Anonymous
Girls athletics are given short shrift everywhere in DCPS. |
Anonymous
Deal has several girls teams. |
Anonymous
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Hardy 8th graders, boys and girls, can join wilson crew.
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Anonymous
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We are at Eaton, albeit only in PK this year. However, I talked to many parents of older students who won't have grandfathering rights to Deal over the summer at the pool and all that I spoke to are optimistic about Hardy when we all need it in 3-7 years.
Personally I'm fine with it now and hope many others will be as well, particularly by the time we get there. (And, if it matters, we are an IB family, uniforms are fine with me, great in fact, and I'm generally of the opinion that my kid will be fine at any school she attends.) |
Anonymous
It's a DCPS rule that if the school you attend doesn't offer a sport you can play that sport at a school that does. |
Anonymous
We're an IB Eaton family and unfortunately have a very different view. In fact, we think that Eaton moving out of Deal will hurt Eaton as it may reverse the trend of increasing IB enrollment which has made Eaton a more vibrant and diverse school as compared to where it was a decade ago. |
Anonymous
That's nice, but how do Hardy kids as a practical matter participate in sports at other schools? Does DCPS provide a school bus to take them and return them to Hardy? |
Anonymous
I'm pretty certain that rule only applies at the high school level, and transportation isn't provided. |
Anonymous
Hardy's website indicates there are soccer teams for both boys and girls. Skiing is even listed! |
Anonymous
| My DC's were at Stoddert and we chose to send them to private school over Hardy. Honestly, after many trips to Filmore (which is in the same building) my kids were very negative about the things they saw at Hardy. DC's reported seeing aggressive behavior, students who seemed "loud and out of control" and witnessed many incidents of teachers trying to discipline students in the hallways. It seemed like a very chaotic environment. |
Anonymous
Your post would be more helpful with the context of time. What grades are your children in now? |
Anonymous
FWIW, my now 10th grade DC transferred as a freshman to a DC high school that is somewhat similar to Hardy from a quiet, suburban environment. The first few months all I heard about was how loud it was, how out of control it seemed, etc. It's different now. When your DC gets to know the kids, they become just kids. The "chaotic" moments now are few and far between and have nothing to do with my DC or DC's social group. Even the loudest kids have names, have stories, become an actual classmate, not just a crazy loud stranger. So I bring this up because from a distance things maybe look scary and loud (especially to a younger child) but once you are there it's different. DC is doing just fine now, academically and socially, and we are saving $30K a year toward college. |
Anonymous
This is a bit consistent with something I personally observed four years ago. Things seem different the past two years or so, from the outside at least. |
Anonymous
| I do think the Filmore thing is an issue - DCs are in one of the elementary feeders and don't really like going there either & that association does start to stick. |
Anonymous
who do they play if other ms do not have teams? |