By the numbers: A dispassioned evaluation of Hardy (compared to Deal and Wilson)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bubble is starting. There are now 18 kids from stoddert 10+ from Mann, 10+ from Key and 10+ IB Hyde.

People have been waiting for the culture to change at Hardy for a long time. Maybe it's at the tipping point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bubble is starting. There are now 18 kids from stoddert 10+ from Mann, 10+ from Key and 10+ IB Hyde.

People have been waiting for the culture to change at Hardy for a long time. Maybe it's at the tipping point.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bubble is starting. There are now 18 kids from stoddert 10+ from Mann, 10+ from Key and 10+ IB Hyde.

People have been waiting for the culture to change at Hardy for a long time. Maybe it's at the tipping point.

+1.

The culture tipped a few years ago. Now finally people are noticing. And that's great!

[Anonymous]

The perception of Hardy has been that of an urban school marooned in Upper NW. It's good that the perception is changing and that Hardy is finally winning community support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All those students at Hardy feeder schools have excellent academic credentials. It's not remotely relevant where they live if the concern is academic competence.

Mann is largely an IB school. Stoddert is in the middle. Hyde is so OOB, it's not significant that kids go to Hardy -- what other alternative do they have?!

According to DCPS Profile page,

Mann - 81% IB
Stoddert - 73% IB
Hyde - 42% IB

The other feeder schools are as follows:

Eaton - 50%
Key - 83%

Of course these numbers are not necessarily accurate since it is past data which may or may not be an accurate picture of the current breakdown which is not yet available to the public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All those students at Hardy feeder schools have excellent academic credentials. It's not remotely relevant where they live if the concern is academic competence.

Mann is largely an IB school. Stoddert is in the middle. Hyde is so OOB, it's not significant that kids go to Hardy -- what other alternative do they have?!

According to DCPS Profile page,

Mann - 81% IB
Stoddert - 73% IB
Hyde - 42% IB

The other feeder schools are as follows:

Eaton - 50%
Key - 83%

Of course these numbers are not necessarily accurate since it is past data which may or may not be an accurate picture of the current breakdown which is not yet available to the public.

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I don't really know who is in-boundary and who is out of boundary at Stoddert in fifth grade but I do know this. There are roughly 50 5th graders this year and all of them are long-standing Stoddert students who have been at the school for years, most since PreK and K. So the years of getting off the waitlist in 5th grade in order to get to Hardy are over.

[Anonymous]

Parents of the Hardy feeder schools are relieved that the proposal for Hyde to be swung to Hardy has been taken off the table. That would have killed the momentum toward Hardy growing its in-boundary population. It was a crazy idea to begin with and weird that DCPS ever entertained it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents of the Hardy feeder schools are relieved that the proposal for Hyde to be swung to Hardy has been taken off the table. That would have killed the momentum toward Hardy growing its in-boundary population. It was a crazy idea to begin with and weird that DCPS ever entertained it.

Not crazy. Dcps wants hardy to be majority oob. There is simply no other explanation for their inept management of hardy over the past decade. I guarantee you that the real reason they want to kick out fillmore is to make room for more oob kids at hardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents of the Hardy feeder schools are relieved that the proposal for Hyde to be swung to Hardy has been taken off the table. That would have killed the momentum toward Hardy growing its in-boundary population. It was a crazy idea to begin with and weird that DCPS ever entertained it.

Not crazy. Dcps wants hardy to be majority oob. There is simply no other explanation for their inept management of hardy over the past decade. I guarantee you that the real reason they want to kick out fillmore is to make room for more oob kids at hardy.

Well, Kaya Henderson is gone now, so maybe the urge to offend the high-SES citizens has been weakened. One City!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents of the Hardy feeder schools are relieved that the proposal for Hyde to be swung to Hardy has been taken off the table. That would have killed the momentum toward Hardy growing its in-boundary population. It was a crazy idea to begin with and weird that DCPS ever entertained it.

Not crazy. Dcps wants hardy to be majority oob. There is simply no other explanation for their inept management of hardy over the past decade. I guarantee you that the real reason they want to kick out fillmore is to make room for more oob kids at hardy.

Well, Kaya Henderson is gone now, so maybe the urge to offend the high-SES citizens has been weakened. One City!!

The proposal was fake entertained to let Jack Evans pretend he was fighting for some constituents... it was never for real. Like all those ones Mary Chehimi throws around that are big jokes on the face of them.

[Anonymous]

Opps, <Mary Cheh>

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents of the Hardy feeder schools are relieved that the proposal for Hyde to be swung to Hardy has been taken off the table. That would have killed the momentum toward Hardy growing its in-boundary population. It was a crazy idea to begin with and weird that DCPS ever entertained it.

Not crazy. Dcps wants hardy to be majority oob. There is simply no other explanation for their inept management of hardy over the past decade. I guarantee you that the real reason they want to kick out fillmore is to make room for more oob kids at hardy.

Well, Kaya Henderson is gone now, so maybe the urge to offend the high-SES citizens has been weakened. One City!!

The proposal was fake entertained to let Jack Evans pretend he was fighting for some constituents... it was never for real. Like all those ones Mary Chehimi throws around that are big jokes on the face of them.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Jake Evans never took a stand against the proposal of hosting Hyde on Hardy's outdoor space. The proposal would have negatively affected very few of his Ward 2 constituents, i.e. just the Ward 2 Hardy IB families. The proposal was for real, and it was withdrawn only because of the strong opposition which was mounting in the Ward 3 Hardy feeder school communities as soon as they learned of the proposal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents of the Hardy feeder schools are relieved that the proposal for Hyde to be swung to Hardy has been taken off the table. That would have killed the momentum toward Hardy growing its in-boundary population. It was a crazy idea to begin with and weird that DCPS ever entertained it.

Not crazy. Dcps wants hardy to be majority oob. There is simply no other explanation for their inept management of hardy over the past decade. I guarantee you that the real reason they want to kick out fillmore is to make room for more oob kids at hardy.

Well, Kaya Henderson is gone now, so maybe the urge to offend the high-SES citizens has been weakened. One City!!

Ah, the eventual counter-reaction from the guardians of Hardy's "unique culture." As long as Hardy remains a largely OOB school, the fact is that there will be limited take-up from the school's boundary area.

[Anonymous]

went to the Hardy open house last week. 3 of the feeders have added a fifth grade class & one added another 1/2... and Eaton is coming. The overall DCPS enrollment for the coming years is bigger than the past. Deal is too overloaded. Bigger IB (and overall) Enrollment is Coming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:went to the Hardy open house last week. 3 of the feeders have added a fifth grade class & one added another 1/2... and Eaton is coming. The overall DCPS enrollment for the coming years is bigger than the past. Deal is too overloaded. Bigger IB (and overall) Enrollment is Coming.

Assuming this is true, this is not great news for Wilson, which is packed to the gills already without more people coming in from Hardy.