So, what is wrong with Hardy?

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Or PP is a troll. The board is anonymous you idiots. Hey, I'm going to buy in Deal too. Maybe in Hardy as well, just to keep my bases covered.

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Anonymous wrote:We felt much more reassured by hardy than deal. At hardy we had the chance to meet with all of our prospective 6th grade teachers ( eg. The 6th grade teacher is the same for the whole 6th grade cohort) , while at deal it us not possible to predict with whom your kids will end up with.
All 6th grade teachers at hardy seem well prepared , upbeat and committed, and they are all young, I can absolutely see my dc relating with them .
So we did not end up renting that efficiency in tenleytown to halve access to deal.
Very happy with hardy.

Please stop blogging and ask instead for an appointment with the math, English and science 6th grade teachers to understand what your child would be offered at hardy. You can meet with them at the same time.

Is the angry, militant English teacher (who led the resistance to Rhee's efforts to reform Hardy several years ago) now more tolerant of a diverse student body at Hardy, including IB kids?

Thank goodness she is still there. She was one of the best DCPS teachers my (IB) student has had in DCPS - scrupulously fair, made the kids work hard, taught them a lot, and had lots of fun.

Please stop slandering her by implying that because she spoke out against firing a Principal five years ago that she somehow takes that out on the kids she teaches. If you decide to send your kids to Hardy, they would be lucky to have her as a teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:Why, oh why, is this thread (a reincarnation of a million other "Hardy isn't good enough" threads) still alive???!!! Die...please die!!!

PS--My kids doesn't even go to Hardy. I'm just tired of the complaining.

So if your "kids doesn't even go to Hardy"[sic], why do you read it?

I didn't read 38 pages of uselessness. I just commented after seeing the thread reappear, once again, that I wished this reincarnation would DIE. There is zero new here...and yet...

It's lottery and re-registration time. People want to know if they should include Hardy in their future plans.

It's quite clear again that not many IB parents are including Hardy in their future plans.

Indeed. Our DC is graduating IB this year and we will be going to private school.

From Key?

We're at Key but will not do Hardy.

Why not?
And what sense do you have of the other Key families in your cohort? Do you see people trending favorably toward Hardy, or not?

We feel that after Key, Hardy would be almost a step back educationally. The parents with whom I talk regularly are not keen on Hardy either. Some are planning for their kids to go charter, others parochial or independent. I haven't noticed any trend toward Hardy, far from it. But I have no experience with the situation in prior years.

Can you elaborate on how you reached this conclusion? Did you meet with Principal Pride and did you meet with any of the other teachers to go over curriculum?

PP, can you answer this question please? Would be helpful to those of us evaluating Hardy now.

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We're at Key but will not do Hardy.

Why not?
And what sense do you have of the other Key families in your cohort? Do you see people trending favorably toward Hardy, or not?

We feel that after Key, Hardy would be almost a step back educationally. The parents with whom I talk regularly are not keen on Hardy either. Some are planning for their kids to go charter, others parochial or independent. I haven't noticed any trend toward Hardy, far from it. But I have no experience with the situation in prior years.

Can you elaborate on how you reached this conclusion? Did you meet with Principal Pride and did you meet with any of the other teachers to go over curriculum?

PP, can you answer this question please? Would be helpful to those of us evaluating Hardy now.

Also, was there any difficulty finding a place at an independent school in 6th grade? or PP, did your child move away from Key before 5th?

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Anonymous wrote:Really interesting how open people are about buying/renting an efficiency in Tenleytown (while continuing to live in non-Deal neighborhoods) so that their kids can go to Deal. No doubt these same parents would cry bloody murder if someone illegally attended their child's elementary school using an aunt's address, etc. I think Deal could trim quite a few kids if it could find a way to identify families "living" in efficiency apartments.

There are a number of kids at Deal who don't even live in DC, rather in PG. They snuck into Deal elementary feeders and then rolled right into Deal.

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Anonymous wrote:Really interesting how open people are about buying/renting an efficiency in Tenleytown (while continuing to live in non-Deal neighborhoods) so that their kids can go to Deal. No doubt these same parents would cry bloody murder if someone illegally attended their child's elementary school using an aunt's address, etc. I think Deal could trim quite a few kids if it could find a way to identify families "living" in efficiency apartments.

There are a number of kids at Deal who don't even live in DC, rather in PG. They snuck into Deal elementary feeders and then rolled right into Deal.

On the list of Deal residency cheaters I would think that renters of Tenleytown efficiencies have to be pretty low.

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They still pay DC taxes after all.

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Anonymous wrote:We are at Mann. I was planning to buy a one-bedroom in Tenleytown so that my kids could have access to Deal. I have reevaluated and will be sending them to Hardy in two years. This decision is pretty final.

What made you change your mind?

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Soon it will be summer and Hardy still has not released the much touted, projected IB enrollment numbers. By now the smart money is that the real numbers are well short of the school's once rosy predictions. if so, the Hardy administration should man up and deal with the bad news and start with fresh thinking on what it's going to take to fundamentally transform the character and trajectory of the school.

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What were/are the schools IB projections?

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I think over 30% IB

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Anonymous wrote:Why, oh why, is this thread (a reincarnation of a million other "Hardy isn't good enough" threads) still alive???!!! Die...please die!!!

PS--My kids doesn't even go to Hardy. I'm just tired of the complaining.

So if your "kids doesn't even go to Hardy"[sic], why do you read it?

I didn't read 38 pages of uselessness. I just commented after seeing the thread reappear, once again, that I wished this reincarnation would DIE. There is zero new here...and yet...

Why do you care? Let us talk! Or because you have discussed something previously you can discuss it anymore?

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Anonymous wrote:Soon it will be summer and Hardy still has not released the much touted, projected IB enrollment numbers. By now the smart money is that the real numbers are well short of the school's once rosy predictions. if so, the Hardy administration should man up and deal with the bad news and start with fresh thinking on what it's going to take to fundamentally transform the character and trajectory of the school.

Have the new data been posted for any other school? Or is it just Hardy whose data is delayed?

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DCPS has not published the data for any school.

DCPS is late this year. It's not Hardy's administration's fault.

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If you ask your DCPS Principal, he/she will tell you how the The way the process works: school pass to DCPS the "raw" data, i.e. the enrollment papers submitted by each student. Data is inserted into the systems by DCPS and the statistics (IB, OB, white/black/latin, FARM) are then calculated by DCPS, not by the schools.

It's not Hardy delaying the data release, it's DCPS that for some reason is taking longer this year.