Hardy 6th = 35% feeder school kids

[Anonymous]

35% of the 2015 - 2016 Hardy 6th-grade class come from feeder schools. This number was confirmed by admin today.

[Anonymous]

Probably another 10% from Brent, too.

[Anonymous]

Considering that last year at this time posters here were saying that admin was confirming 50% feeder school kids, that sounds like a precipitous drop!

It's a meaningless number without any context.

[Anonymous]

Posters were saying that last year - but Principal Pride was saying 35%.

[Anonymous]

Yawn. Considering how some of the feeders are heavily weighted with OOB kids, this is not an interesting statistic. (It would be shocking -- a man bites dog story -- if OOB students didn't continue on to Hardy in large numbers, because Hardy generally is better than their alternative.) The meaningful number is the in-boundary students are Hardy. While this seems to be trending up slightly, it is still below where the admin has suggested it would be.

[Anonymous]

PP typo- "...at Hardy", not "are."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yawn. Considering how some of the feeders are heavily weighted with OOB kids, this is not an interesting statistic. (It would be shocking -- a man bites dog story -- if OOB students didn't continue on to Hardy in large numbers, because Hardy generally is better than their alternative.) The meaningful number is the in-boundary students are Hardy. While this seems to be trending up slightly, it is still below where the admin has suggested it would be.

Puh-leeze, doofus. 35% from feeder schools is an incredible uptick from last year. All of those kids perform at least at grade level. Expect 50% or more next year, imo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn. Considering how some of the feeders are heavily weighted with OOB kids, this is not an interesting statistic. (It would be shocking -- a man bites dog story -- if OOB students didn't continue on to Hardy in large numbers, because Hardy generally is better than their alternative.) The meaningful number is the in-boundary students are Hardy. While this seems to be trending up slightly, it is still below where the admin has suggested it would be.

Puh-leeze, doofus. 35% from feeder schools is NOT ACTUALLY AN incredible uptick from last year. All of those kids perform at least at grade level. Expect 50% or more next year, imo.

It's about the same. Hyde is ~ 60% OOB, Eaton is 55% OOB, Stoddert is !7%. Those numbers of not-neighborhood kids, when combined, is significant.

Agree with you that the on-grade level metric is good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn. Considering how some of the feeders are heavily weighted with OOB kids, this is not an interesting statistic. (It would be shocking -- a man bites dog story -- if OOB students didn't continue on to Hardy in large numbers, because Hardy generally is better than their alternative.) The meaningful number is the in-boundary students are Hardy. While this seems to be trending up slightly, it is still below where the admin has suggested it would be.

Puh-leeze, doofus. 35% from feeder schools is NOT ACTUALLY AN incredible uptick from last year. All of those kids perform at least at grade level. Expect 50% or more next year, imo.

It's about the same. Hyde is ~ 60% OOB, Eaton is 55% OOB, Stoddert is !7%. Those numbers of not-neighborhood kids, when combined, is significant.

Agree with you that the on-grade level metric is good.

Your post mis-quotes the PP and makes little sense, other than agreeing that the academic performance if kids from feeder schools to Hardy is very good. At least you got the main point right!!

[Anonymous]

You do, also, realize that Deal is made up of 30% feeder but not IB kids, right?

Regardless, your insistence on treating kids who attended a school despite living outside its boundary as intrinsically different from those who living within the boundary is absurd. The feeder number is what matters, you pompous ass.

--IB Mann parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do, also, realize that Deal is made up of 30% feeder but not IB kids, right?

Regardless, your insistence on treating kids who attended a school despite living outside its boundary as intrinsically different from those who living within the boundary is absurd. The feeder number is what matters, you pompous ass.

--IB Mann parent

This is the point at which somebody steps in and makes a racial inference. Let's just skip over that detour this time, and focus on the meaning of 35% non-OOB in 2015-16!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do, also, realize that Deal is made up of 30% feeder but not IB kids, right?

Regardless, your insistence on treating kids who attended a school despite living outside its boundary as intrinsically different from those who living within the boundary is absurd. The feeder number is what matters, you pompous ass.

--IB Mann parent

Thank U PP for offering this very astute comment. I have grown so tired of this obsession with in boundary children at Hardy. I attended the open house today and it was fantastic. I fully anticipate that my fourth-grade child at Stoddert will attend Hardy in two years and we will be thrilled.

[Anonymous]

I hope it stays low so my kid has a chance to get in. Alternately, hope lots of kids from Hardy feeders go to BASIS and Latin and I'll switch to a Hardy feeder at 5th.

Don't worry--my kid is smart and we have the money to move to a Hardy-feeding condo if we chose to do it...but would rather keep our low mortgage payments and fun neighborhood if we have that option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do, also, realize that Deal is made up of 30% feeder but not IB kids, right?

Regardless, your insistence on treating kids who attended a school despite living outside its boundary as intrinsically different from those who living within the boundary is absurd. The feeder number is what matters, you pompous ass.

--IB Mann parent

Just trying to understand here. Deal is 70% OOB (by lottery) and 30% "IB" (meaning kids from feeder schools)? Is that correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You do, also, realize that Deal is made up of 30% feeder but not IB kids, right?

Regardless, your insistence on treating kids who attended a school despite living outside its boundary as intrinsically different from those who living within the boundary is absurd. The feeder number is what matters, you pompous ass.

--IB Mann parent

Just trying to understand here. Deal is 70% OOB (by lottery) and 30% "IB" (meaning kids from feeder schools)? Is that correct?

Deal is 0% by lottery, everyone who gets in gets in because they attended feeder schools (at least in theory). Of the kids who attended feeder schools, 70% live in-boundary (IB) and 30% live out-of-boundary (OOB).