Hardy 6th = 35% feeder school kids

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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?

Perhaps the prior poster is referring to the debacle several years ago in which those in the school (led by a teacher who is still the WTU rep) angrily pushed back on changes pushed by Michelle Rhee, including attempts to increase IB enrollment.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Perhaps the prior poster is referring to the debacle several years ago in which those in the school (led by a teacher who is still the WTU rep) angrily pushed back on changes pushed by Michelle Rhee, including attempts to increase IB enrollment.

What were the changes? Were the changes bad for the school in general? Were the changes enacted or scrapped? Do the changes affect the school today? (Please just facts. Don't want to make this into a DCUM argument

[Anonymous]

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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?

Perhaps the prior poster is referring to the debacle several years ago in which those in the school (led by a teacher who is still the WTU rep) angrily pushed back on changes pushed by Michelle Rhee, including attempts to increase IB enrollment.

What were the changes? Were the changes bad for the school in general? Were the changes enacted or scrapped? Do the changes affect the school today? (Please just facts. Don't want to make this into a DCUM argument

Honestly it's all in the archives. Use the search feature.

[Anonymous]

There's no reason to use the search feature. That history, from half a decade ago, is entirely irrelevant. The prior poster clearly has an axe to grind. Perhaps they have a vested interest in seeing this issue be brought up in each and every Hardy thread. Curious, don't you think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's no reason to use the search feature. That history, from half a decade ago, is entirely irrelevant. The prior poster clearly has an axe to grind. Perhaps they have a vested interest in seeing this issue be brought up in each and every Hardy thread. Curious, don't you think?

I don't have an axe to grind. I'd like to know what happened and if it affects the school today. Maybe it comes up in Hardy threads because, like me, there are people who haven't heard about it. New families move to DC all the time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no reason to use the search feature. That history, from half a decade ago, is entirely irrelevant. The prior poster clearly has an axe to grind. Perhaps they have a vested interest in seeing this issue be brought up in each and every Hardy thread. Curious, don't you think?

I don't have an axe to grind. I'd like to know what happened and if it affects the school today. Maybe it comes up in Hardy threads because, like me, there are people who haven't heard about it. New families move to DC all the time.

Hmm Np here who is an interested observer. My kid is 7 years away from (hopefully!) attending Hardy and I really want to see the school succeed, for selfish and community reasons. I'm curious about the past because as we all know, history has a way of repeating itself! No axes to grind, just a desire to educate myself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no reason to use the search feature. That history, from half a decade ago, is entirely irrelevant. The prior poster clearly has an axe to grind. Perhaps they have a vested interest in seeing this issue be brought up in each and every Hardy thread. Curious, don't you think?

I don't have an axe to grind. I'd like to know what happened and if it affects the school today. Maybe it comes up in Hardy threads because, like me, there are people who haven't heard about it. New families move to DC all the time.

I'm not saying you have an ax to grind; I'm saying the poster who always mentions this mythical teacher in EVERY thread has an ax to grind.

Of course you're curious. That's fine. But it has no relevance whatsoever to the school today, let alone in 7 years.

Short story: Rhee wanted to remove the popular (especially among OOB folks) principal at Hardy. She had previously met with IB parents at a home in the Palisades to discuss what they'd like to see happen at the school -- even though those folks were not sending their kids to Hardy. This upset some, in particular said teacher. She hung a sign on her door indicating her support of the embattled principal (Pope) and opposition to Rhee's actions and intentions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no reason to use the search feature. That history, from half a decade ago, is entirely irrelevant. The prior poster clearly has an axe to grind. Perhaps they have a vested interest in seeing this issue be brought up in each and every Hardy thread. Curious, don't you think?

I don't have an axe to grind. I'd like to know what happened and if it affects the school today. Maybe it comes up in Hardy threads because, like me, there are people who haven't heard about it. New families move to DC all the time.

I'm not saying you have an ax to grind; I'm saying the poster who always mentions this mythical teacher in EVERY thread has an ax to grind.

Of course you're curious. That's fine. But it has no relevance whatsoever to the school today, let alone in 7 years.

Short story: Rhee wanted to remove the popular (especially among OOB folks) principal at Hardy. She had previously met with IB parents at a home in the Palisades to discuss what they'd like to see happen at the school -- even though those folks were not sending their kids to Hardy. This upset some, in particular said teacher. She hung a sign on her door indicating her support of the embattled principal (Pope) and opposition to Rhee's actions and intentions.

Ok, so it wasn't "changes" like changing programs at the school. It was changing the principal that everyone liked. I thought maybe there were suggested program changes or class changes or something like that, that families didn't like or that the school was divided over. Thanks for clearing that up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no reason to use the search feature. That history, from half a decade ago, is entirely irrelevant. The prior poster clearly has an axe to grind. Perhaps they have a vested interest in seeing this issue be brought up in each and every Hardy thread. Curious, don't you think?

I don't have an axe to grind. I'd like to know what happened and if it affects the school today. Maybe it comes up in Hardy threads because, like me, there are people who haven't heard about it. New families move to DC all the time.

I'm not saying you have an ax to grind; I'm saying the poster who always mentions this mythical teacher in EVERY thread has an ax to grind.

Of course you're curious. That's fine. But it has no relevance whatsoever to the school today, let alone in 7 years.

Short story: Rhee wanted to remove the popular (especially among OOB folks) principal at Hardy. She had previously met with IB parents at a home in the Palisades to discuss what they'd like to see happen at the school -- even though those folks were not sending their kids to Hardy. This upset some, in particular said teacher. She hung a sign on her door indicating her support of the embattled principal (Pope) and opposition to Rhee's actions and intentions.

Ok, so it wasn't "changes" like changing programs at the school. It was changing the principal that everyone liked. I thought maybe there were suggested program changes or class changes or something like that, that families didn't like or that the school was divided over. Thanks for clearing that up.

I just wanted to add that I'm not the poster with a preschool aged child. My child is in elementary already and is only a few years from middle school (Hardy is our IB) so we're starting to look at options.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no reason to use the search feature. That history, from half a decade ago, is entirely irrelevant. The prior poster clearly has an axe to grind. Perhaps they have a vested interest in seeing this issue be brought up in each and every Hardy thread. Curious, don't you think?

I don't have an axe to grind. I'd like to know what happened and if it affects the school today. Maybe it comes up in Hardy threads because, like me, there are people who haven't heard about it. New families move to DC all the time.

I'm not saying you have an ax to grind; I'm saying the poster who always mentions this mythical teacher in EVERY thread has an ax to grind.

Of course you're curious. That's fine. But it has no relevance whatsoever to the school today, let alone in 7 years.

Short story: Rhee wanted to remove the popular (especially among OOB folks) principal at Hardy. She had previously met with IB parents at a home in the Palisades to discuss what they'd like to see happen at the school -- even though those folks were not sending their kids to Hardy. This upset some, in particular said teacher. She hung a sign on her door indicating her support of the embattled principal (Pope) and opposition to Rhee's actions and intentions.

This covers it. I will add that the Hardy parents had no warning that their principal would be removed and so it looked like Rhee was willing to meet with Palisades parents and do their bidding while ignoring the Hardy parents. Could you blame them for being angry? The principal was assigned to create a middle school arts magnet school which never happened and so a talented principal was removed from working with kids for an entire year until he was assigned to Savoy Elementary. One more example of Michelle Rhee's ineptness at running a school system...but I digress. Anyway, pp is right - I don't think this has any relevance to the school today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no reason to use the search feature. That history, from half a decade ago, is entirely irrelevant. The prior poster clearly has an axe to grind. Perhaps they have a vested interest in seeing this issue be brought up in each and every Hardy thread. Curious, don't you think?

I don't have an axe to grind. I'd like to know what happened and if it affects the school today. Maybe it comes up in Hardy threads because, like me, there are people who haven't heard about it. New families move to DC all the time.

I'm not saying you have an ax to grind; I'm saying the poster who always mentions this mythical teacher in EVERY thread has an ax to grind.

Of course you're curious. That's fine. But it has no relevance whatsoever to the school today, let alone in 7 years.

Short story: Rhee wanted to remove the popular (especially among OOB folks) principal at Hardy. She had previously met with IB parents at a home in the Palisades to discuss what they'd like to see happen at the school -- even though those folks were not sending their kids to Hardy. This upset some, in particular said teacher. She hung a sign on her door indicating her support of the embattled principal (Pope) and opposition to Rhee's actions and intentions.

How can you call her a "mythical teacher" when you go on to describe specifically some of her actions? And it is relevant, because she's still at Hardy and dug in as the rep for the Washington Teachers Union.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no reason to use the search feature. That history, from half a decade ago, is entirely irrelevant. The prior poster clearly has an axe to grind. Perhaps they have a vested interest in seeing this issue be brought up in each and every Hardy thread. Curious, don't you think?

I don't have an axe to grind. I'd like to know what happened and if it affects the school today. Maybe it comes up in Hardy threads because, like me, there are people who haven't heard about it. New families move to DC all the time.

I'm not saying you have an ax to grind; I'm saying the poster who always mentions this mythical teacher in EVERY thread has an ax to grind.

Of course you're curious. That's fine. But it has no relevance whatsoever to the school today, let alone in 7 years.

Short story: Rhee wanted to remove the popular (especially among OOB folks) principal at Hardy. She had previously met with IB parents at a home in the Palisades to discuss what they'd like to see happen at the school -- even though those folks were not sending their kids to Hardy. This upset some, in particular said teacher. She hung a sign on her door indicating her support of the embattled principal (Pope) and opposition to Rhee's actions and intentions.

Ok, so it wasn't "changes" like changing programs at the school. It was changing the principal that everyone liked. I thought maybe there were suggested program changes or class changes or something like that, that families didn't like or that the school was divided over. Thanks for clearing that up.

It was also annoyance and resentment that DCPS was trying to change Hardy a lot to become attractive to IB families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no reason to use the search feature. That history, from half a decade ago, is entirely irrelevant. The prior poster clearly has an axe to grind. Perhaps they have a vested interest in seeing this issue be brought up in each and every Hardy thread. Curious, don't you think?

I don't have an axe to grind. I'd like to know what happened and if it affects the school today. Maybe it comes up in Hardy threads because, like me, there are people who haven't heard about it. New families move to DC all the time.

I'm not saying you have an ax to grind; I'm saying the poster who always mentions this mythical teacher in EVERY thread has an ax to grind.

Of course you're curious. That's fine. But it has no relevance whatsoever to the school today, let alone in 7 years.

Short story: Rhee wanted to remove the popular (especially among OOB folks) principal at Hardy. She had previously met with IB parents at a home in the Palisades to discuss what they'd like to see happen at the school -- even though those folks were not sending their kids to Hardy. This upset some, in particular said teacher. She hung a sign on her door indicating her support of the embattled principal (Pope) and opposition to Rhee's actions and intentions.

This covers it. I will add that the Hardy parents had no warning that their principal would be removed and so it looked like Rhee was willing to meet with Palisades parents and do their bidding while ignoring the Hardy parents. Could you blame them for being angry? The principal was assigned to create a middle school arts magnet school which never happened and so a talented principal was removed from working with kids for an entire year until he was assigned to Savoy Elementary. One more example of Michelle Rhee's ineptness at running a school system...but I digress. Anyway, pp is right - I don't think this has any relevance to the school today.

I only wish that Michelle Rhee had swung her big broom wider and farther. She probably should have fired twice as many principals and teachers as she did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no reason to use the search feature. That history, from half a decade ago, is entirely irrelevant. The prior poster clearly has an axe to grind. Perhaps they have a vested interest in seeing this issue be brought up in each and every Hardy thread. Curious, don't you think?

I don't have an axe to grind. I'd like to know what happened and if it affects the school today. Maybe it comes up in Hardy threads because, like me, there are people who haven't heard about it. New families move to DC all the time.

I'm not saying you have an ax to grind; I'm saying the poster who always mentions this mythical teacher in EVERY thread has an ax to grind.

Of course you're curious. That's fine. But it has no relevance whatsoever to the school today, let alone in 7 years.

Short story: Rhee wanted to remove the popular (especially among OOB folks) principal at Hardy. She had previously met with IB parents at a home in the Palisades to discuss what they'd like to see happen at the school -- even though those folks were not sending their kids to Hardy. This upset some, in particular said teacher. She hung a sign on her door indicating her support of the embattled principal (Pope) and opposition to Rhee's actions and intentions.

Ok, so it wasn't "changes" like changing programs at the school. It was changing the principal that everyone liked. I thought maybe there were suggested program changes or class changes or something like that, that families didn't like or that the school was divided over. Thanks for clearing that up.

It was also annoyance and resentment that DCPS was trying to change Hardy a lot to become attractive to IB families.

It really wasn't.

Regardless, as multiple posters have noted, this is all ancient history. As someone who was at Hardy until last year, I can tell you that none of the parents at Hardy now - IB or OOB - care about this, and that all are working together on continued improvements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no reason to use the search feature. That history, from half a decade ago, is entirely irrelevant. The prior poster clearly has an axe to grind. Perhaps they have a vested interest in seeing this issue be brought up in each and every Hardy thread. Curious, don't you think?

I don't have an axe to grind. I'd like to know what happened and if it affects the school today. Maybe it comes up in Hardy threads because, like me, there are people who haven't heard about it. New families move to DC all the time.

I'm not saying you have an ax to grind; I'm saying the poster who always mentions this mythical teacher in EVERY thread has an ax to grind.

Of course you're curious. That's fine. But it has no relevance whatsoever to the school today, let alone in 7 years.

Short story: Rhee wanted to remove the popular (especially among OOB folks) principal at Hardy. She had previously met with IB parents at a home in the Palisades to discuss what they'd like to see happen at the school -- even though those folks were not sending their kids to Hardy. This upset some, in particular said teacher. She hung a sign on her door indicating her support of the embattled principal (Pope) and opposition to Rhee's actions and intentions.

This covers it. I will add that the Hardy parents had no warning that their principal would be removed and so it looked like Rhee was willing to meet with Palisades parents and do their bidding while ignoring the Hardy parents. Could you blame them for being angry? The principal was assigned to create a middle school arts magnet school which never happened and so a talented principal was removed from working with kids for an entire year until he was assigned to Savoy Elementary. One more example of Michelle Rhee's ineptness at running a school system...but I digress. Anyway, pp is right - I don't think this has any relevance to the school today.

I only wish that Michelle Rhee had swung her big broom wider and farther. She probably should have fired twice as many principals and teachers as she did.

Michelle! So glad you are back. So sorry the cheating caused improved test scores when you last lived with us in DC.