The year 2025: where would you rather send your sixth grader - Hardy or Deal?

[Anonymous]

Why does all this Hardy cheerleading make me feel that this topic should be in the Real Estate category?

[Anonymous]

This seems like people take this as truth here, but why is it bad to go to a large school? I am originally from Texas, and went to a HS of 3000 kids. My friends still there don't blink an eye to send kids to schools that large, and schools that large often have good test scores. Why is a big school bad?

[Anonymous]

Are you truthfully lauding the schools of Texas? With the school board and nonsense curriculum? Really?

I went to a magnet middle school in Wake County, NC. Great school, large- but in the projects and took a bit of fortitude to succeed. The school grouped kids into subgroups of four home rooms, that made the school seem smaller.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agreed DCI has time to grow and probably will be good but it is not a sure thing. If we are going to add DCI, we should also consider CM and IT, both of which just added middle schools.

DCI requires language fluency, right?

Hardly, anybody can lottery in and plenty of the kids who've been in DCI's language immersion feeder schools for year don't speak or understand the target languages at all well. They can usually write and read a lot better than they can speak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope DCI will be a great school in 9 years but it is not established yet. Test scores aren't great, lots of behavior problems. We will be looking at other options for DC, including Hardy.

DCI is about 2 years old? So, it has time to grow.

The best thing that happened to Hardy, is kicking in Eaton (and the Oyster families who don't want to deal with Adams). Those decisions in and of themselves will improve the school.

Uh no. Eaton was already very high OOB so yeah you may have some OOB feeder kids (smart I'm sure), but you don't have a spike in Eaton catchment kids going to Hardy. The best thing to happen to Hardy in the concerted effort families from Stoddert, Mann, and yes some Eaton have made to improve Hardy and commit to going. Of the schools, I'd say Stoddert has largest role. Stoddert has some of the highest scores in the city (higher than some JKLM) and they bring a diverse cohort of kids. Those families' commitment is making a big difference IMO. Eaton being moved hasn't been felt yet.

.

But aren't the younger grades at Eaton almost all IB?

Well, according to the new demographic data, we hit 50% IB for the entire school this year. Given what I see in my child's year, I think that will on,y increase as the lower grades move up, though unless there's a significant increase in children moving IB generally, there is a cap on what IB can be since there aren't currently enough students in the cachement area to fill the school even if every eligible child attended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope DCI will be a great school in 9 years but it is not established yet. Test scores aren't great, lots of behavior problems. We will be looking at other options for DC, including Hardy.

DCI is about 2 years old? So, it has time to grow.

The best thing that happened to Hardy, is kicking in Eaton (and the Oyster families who don't want to deal with Adams). Those decisions in and of themselves will improve the school.

Uh no. Eaton was already very high OOB so yeah you may have some OOB feeder kids (smart I'm sure), but you don't have a spike in Eaton catchment kids going to Hardy. The best thing to happen to Hardy in the concerted effort families from Stoddert, Mann, and yes some Eaton have made to improve Hardy and commit to going. Of the schools, I'd say Stoddert has largest role. Stoddert has some of the highest scores in the city (higher than some JKLM) and they bring a diverse cohort of kids. Those families' commitment is making a big difference IMO. Eaton being moved hasn't been felt yet.

But aren't the younger grades at Eaton almost all IB?

Yes but currently almost all of Stoddert is IB. The pp said Eaton is the best thing to happen to Hardy and I'm arguing Stoddert is/will play just as big a role, if not more, than Hardy's success. I'm not at Stoddert but never understand why they don't get much love here.

[Anonymous]

Hardy needs to work harder to shed its inner city image before lots more IB families feel comfortable with the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope DCI will be a great school in 9 years but it is not established yet. Test scores aren't great, lots of behavior problems. We will be looking at other options for DC, including Hardy.

DCI is about 2 years old? So, it has time to grow.

The best thing that happened to Hardy, is kicking in Eaton (and the Oyster families who don't want to deal with Adams). Those decisions in and of themselves will improve the school.

Uh no. Eaton was already very high OOB so yeah you may have some OOB feeder kids (smart I'm sure), but you don't have a spike in Eaton catchment kids going to Hardy. The best thing to happen to Hardy in the concerted effort families from Stoddert, Mann, and yes some Eaton have made to improve Hardy and commit to going. Of the schools, I'd say Stoddert has largest role. Stoddert has some of the highest scores in the city (higher than some JKLM) and they bring a diverse cohort of kids. Those families' commitment is making a big difference IMO. Eaton being moved hasn't been felt yet.

But aren't the younger grades at Eaton almost all IB?

Yes but currently almost all of Stoddert is IB. The pp said Eaton is the best thing to happen to Hardy and I'm arguing Stoddert is/will play just as big a role, if not more, than Hardy's success. I'm not at Stoddert but never understand why they don't get much love here.

Some may think Eaton is the best thing to happen to Hardy. However, there are many in the Eaton community who feel quite strongly that the forced switch from Deal to Hardy was the worst thing to happen to Eaton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hardy, clearly.

Hardy? Hardly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hardy now, Hardy still in 2025. And I say that as a current Hardy parent who has other options, but chose Hardy.

Is that angry, militant teacher still there, the one who fought Chancellor Rhee's efforts to diversify Hardy by bringing more Ward 3 families into the school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope DCI will be a great school in 9 years but it is not established yet. Test scores aren't great, lots of behavior problems. We will be looking at other options for DC, including Hardy.

DCI is about 2 years old? So, it has time to grow.

The best thing that happened to Hardy, is kicking in Eaton (and the Oyster families who don't want to deal with Adams). Those decisions in and of themselves will improve the school.

Uh no. Eaton was already very high OOB so yeah you may have some OOB feeder kids (smart I'm sure), but you don't have a spike in Eaton catchment kids going to Hardy. The best thing to happen to Hardy in the concerted effort families from Stoddert, Mann, and yes some Eaton have made to improve Hardy and commit to going. Of the schools, I'd say Stoddert has largest role. Stoddert has some of the highest scores in the city (higher than some JKLM) and they bring a diverse cohort of kids. Those families' commitment is making a big difference IMO. Eaton being moved hasn't been felt yet.

But aren't the younger grades at Eaton almost all IB?

Yes but currently almost all of Stoddert is IB. The pp said Eaton is the best thing to happen to Hardy and I'm arguing Stoddert is/will play just as big a role, if not more, than Hardy's success. I'm not at Stoddert but never understand why they don't get much love here.

Some may think Eaton is the best thing to happen to Hardy. However, there are many in the Eaton community who feel quite strongly that the forced switch from Deal to Hardy was the worst thing to happen to Eaton.

Being that Eaton was barely in double digits for IB, it's hardly a compelling argument.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you truthfully lauding the schools of Texas? With the school board and nonsense curriculum? Really?

I went to a magnet middle school in Wake County, NC. Great school, large- but in the projects and took a bit of fortitude to succeed. The school grouped kids into subgroups of four home rooms, that made the school seem smaller.

It's a large state, with a lot of very good schools that feed one of the richest networks of universities in the country. A lot of tech companies and you know NASA have made Texas their home for good reason. You really have no idea what you're talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say anything is possible I remember 20 years ago Hines Junior High and Jefferson Junior High was one of the TOP schools that you could get into only if your GPA was 3.0+ and Deal was just a good school but not the top school. Now, Hines has since closed and Jefferson is not the most sought after school.

What? We bought our first house on the Hill in 1995--21 years ago--and I can assure you there were few people clamoring to get into Hines.

Also, please remember: Just because a school was sought after 20 years ago doesn't mean it was very good. Everything is relative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope DCI will be a great school in 9 years but it is not established yet. Test scores aren't great, lots of behavior problems. We will be looking at other options for DC, including Hardy.

DCI is about 2 years old? So, it has time to grow.

The best thing that happened to Hardy, is kicking in Eaton (and the Oyster families who don't want to deal with Adams). Those decisions in and of themselves will improve the school.

Uh no. Eaton was already very high OOB so yeah you may have some OOB feeder kids (smart I'm sure), but you don't have a spike in Eaton catchment kids going to Hardy. The best thing to happen to Hardy in the concerted effort families from Stoddert, Mann, and yes some Eaton have made to improve Hardy and commit to going. Of the schools, I'd say Stoddert has largest role. Stoddert has some of the highest scores in the city (higher than some JKLM) and they bring a diverse cohort of kids. Those families' commitment is making a big difference IMO. Eaton being moved hasn't been felt yet.

But aren't the younger grades at Eaton almost all IB?

Yes but currently almost all of Stoddert is IB. The pp said Eaton is the best thing to happen to Hardy and I'm arguing Stoddert is/will play just as big a role, if not more, than Hardy's success. I'm not at Stoddert but never understand why they don't get much love here.

Some may think Eaton is the best thing to happen to Hardy. However, there are many in the Eaton community who feel quite strongly that the forced switch from Deal to Hardy was the worst thing to happen to Eaton.

Being that Eaton was barely in double digits for IB, it's hardly a compelling argument.

Well that's just a bald faced lie. When was Eaton around 10% IB? Certainly no time near when it was moved to Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really just don't trust DCPS to deliver a quality middle school.

+1