How has Hardy drawn inbound families?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eaton parents are the worse. They have been throwing shit on Hardy at meetings , blogs, DCUM, without ever visiting the school.
Most of them are OOB, and still they do not care to throw trash on the OOB kids attending Hardy... Just because they have been hit by a lucky star at a lottery and got a spot for 5 years at Eaton.

I hope they stay away from Hardy, and keep their bad attitude elsewhere.

Actually, Eaton families are the best.
You clearly have never spoken to an Eaton parent because none of us would tolerate the nonsense from your post. You have no idea what you are talking about.
The Eaton community supports both Deal and Hardy. We were given the "dual feeder" status in 2009 by Rhee in an obviously political move that had nothing to do with Eaton. Eaton has fed to Deal for decades with many families choosing Hardy in the Patrick Pope days. We were not part of the instability that happened as a result of Rhee's decisions.
Eaton is a great school with kids from all over the city, excellent test scores, interesting opportunities for our kids, a great community and reasonable, smart parents who want what's best for our kids. That's it-no bad attitude or throwing anything anywhere.
I can't even believe I spent all that time responding to your nonsense.

Then you'd better spend it reading the rants of your Eaton mates in a DCUM topic of some weeks ago about Eaton being thrown under the bus by the DME proposals.
Hundreds of entries there. Unless you have a graphomaniac parent, there was a multitude of Eaton parents posting there and saying the worse against Hardy. As a current Hardy parent I was annoyed and offended by the content of those postings, the sense of entitlement, and most of all the mis/false information of most entries. Hardy parents had to spend time amending all the misleading information presented by Eaton posters, including false claims about violence and bullying in the school.

I'll be eager to watch this gentle attitude towards Hardy you are referring to at the forthcoming meeting with the DME in Cleveland Park. We will be there, to make sure not a single false statement is made against Hardy while we are trying to strenghten our school. I'll post an update after that....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parking for teachers and staff can be an issues in areas under-served by public transportation and metro.
At Horace Mann, parents have set up a system where we are lending teachers parking permits during the renovation months (equipment and trailers have occupied the whole parking area). You want your teachers to be happy about the school. Most importantly we want them to remain at Mann, despite the disruptions due to the renovations (2 years).

The small parking area at Hardy is functional to a good functioning to the school. I am sure that if we did a survey, most school parents would tell you that they'd rather leave that small parking space for their teachers, that have that oddly-shaped for outdoor gathering of kids.

Thought my kid is in 3th grade, I went to see the school following Ms Pride's visit to Mann. We were impressed. More and more Mann families will enroll into Hardy if the current momentum is kept.

Let's put some facts in here on the parking and outside space. There are presently 33 cars in the parking lot. Another 20 cars are parked behind the hardy building. The British School sends their kids to the massive Maret/Jelle field. The question about space prospective Hardy parents need to focus on is whether they want the 100 car parking lot adjacent to the south edge of Hardy to become townhouses. GW plans to sell it. It was school property until sold in late 90s by Barry administration.

Thank you. This is very useful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sports had nothing to do with our decision not to send DC to hardy. It was about academics and safety. Those need to be the priorities.

Huh? Have you crossed the threshold of the school?

--mom of a Hardy student who feels perfectly safe there

I know - I sent my kid there for all three years. Safety? Never crossed my mind as an issue. Now, academics, that was more variable but mostly good teachers back then with a few royal clunkers. But I don't know what it's like now. Can't believe that it's gotten dangerous though since then. Seriously?

+1

Current Hardy parent here. Have not worried about safety for one second of one day. Anyone raising concerns about "safety" at Hardy is merely showing off their high level of ignorance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parking for teachers and staff can be an issues in areas under-served by public transportation and metro.
At Horace Mann, parents have set up a system where we are lending teachers parking permits during the renovation months (equipment and trailers have occupied the whole parking area). You want your teachers to be happy about the school. Most importantly we want them to remain at Mann, despite the disruptions due to the renovations (2 years).

The small parking area at Hardy is functional to a good functioning to the school. I am sure that if we did a survey, most school parents would tell you that they'd rather leave that small parking space for their teachers, that have that oddly-shaped for outdoor gathering of kids.

Thought my kid is in 3th grade, I went to see the school following Ms Pride's visit to Mann. We were impressed. More and more Mann families will enroll into Hardy if the current momentum is kept.

Let's put some facts in here on the parking and outside space. There are presently 33 cars in the parking lot. Another 20 cars are parked behind the hardy building. The British School sends their kids to the massive Maret/Jelle field. The question about space prospective Hardy parents need to focus on is whether they want the 100 car parking lot adjacent to the south edge of Hardy to become townhouses. GW plans to sell it. It was school property until sold in late 90s by Barry administration.

If DCPS had a ton of money, it could buy that lot and build a new HS with underground parking. Or put science and engineering labs in there and share the building with Ellington, which is just a half-block away.

Thank you. This is very useful.

[Anonymous]

Current Hardy parent again, this time commenting on the parent complaining about not enough sports space.

I have to laugh here. For years, I have been observing the double standard in the way Hardy and its students are treated by DCUMers and others. (the phenomenon where a group of loud Deal students are viewed as happy, boisterous pre-teens and a group of loud Hardy students are viewed as a bunch of thugs.)

I guarantee you - guarantee - that if Hardy had the large sports field that the original poster wanted, there would be dozens of posts complaining about how the existence of said field shows how Hardy care too much about athletics and not enough about academics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Current Hardy parent again, this time commenting on the parent complaining about not enough sports space.

I have to laugh here. For years, I have been observing the double standard in the way Hardy and its students are treated by DCUMers and others. (the phenomenon where a group of loud Deal students are viewed as happy, boisterous pre-teens and a group of loud Hardy students are viewed as a bunch of thugs.)

I guarantee you - guarantee - that if Hardy had the large sports field that the original poster wanted, there would be dozens of posts complaining about how the existence of said field shows how Hardy care too much about athletics and not enough about academics.

There is one slight flaw in your point here: I can't remember anyone complaining about Ellington students or their behavior, but there have been a number of comments complaining about some of Hardy and Wilson students' behavior, after school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Current Hardy parent again, this time commenting on the parent complaining about not enough sports space.

I have to laugh here. For years, I have been observing the double standard in the way Hardy and its students are treated by DCUMers and others. (the phenomenon where a group of loud Deal students are viewed as happy, boisterous pre-teens and a group of loud Hardy students are viewed as a bunch of thugs.)

I guarantee you - guarantee - that if Hardy had the large sports field that the original poster wanted, there would be dozens of posts complaining about how the existence of said field shows how Hardy care too much about athletics and not enough about academics.

There is one slight flaw in your point here: I can't remember anyone complaining about Ellington students or their behavior, but there have been a number of comments complaining about some of Hardy and Wilson students' behavior, after school.

I feel pretty confident that you missed the point of this post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eaton parents are the worse. They have been throwing shit on Hardy at meetings , blogs, DCUM, without ever visiting the school.
Most of them are OOB, and still they do not care to throw trash on the OOB kids attending Hardy... Just because they have been hit by a lucky star at a lottery and got a spot for 5 years at Eaton.

I hope they stay away from Hardy, and keep their bad attitude elsewhere.

Actually, Eaton families are the best.
You clearly have never spoken to an Eaton parent because none of us would tolerate the nonsense from your post. You have no idea what you are talking about.
The Eaton community supports both Deal and Hardy. We were given the "dual feeder" status in 2009 by Rhee in an obviously political move that had nothing to do with Eaton. Eaton has fed to Deal for decades with many families choosing Hardy in the Patrick Pope days. We were not part of the instability that happened as a result of Rhee's decisions.
Eaton is a great school with kids from all over the city, excellent test scores, interesting opportunities for our kids, a great community and reasonable, smart parents who want what's best for our kids. That's it-no bad attitude or throwing anything anywhere.
I can't even believe I spent all that time responding to your nonsense.

Then you'd better spend it reading the rants of your Eaton mates in a DCUM topic of some weeks ago about Eaton being thrown under the bus by the DME proposals.
Hundreds of entries there. Unless you have a graphomaniac parent, there was a multitude of Eaton parents posting there and saying the worse against Hardy. As a current Hardy parent I was annoyed and offended by the content of those postings, the sense of entitlement, and most of all the mis/false information of most entries. Hardy parents had to spend time amending all the misleading information presented by Eaton posters, including false claims about violence and bullying in the school.

I'll be eager to watch this gentle attitude towards Hardy you are referring to at the forthcoming meeting with the DME in Cleveland Park. We will be there, to make sure not a single false statement is made against Hardy while we are trying to strenghten our school. I'll post an update after that....

I don't think it's useful to "bash" Hardy and certainly I have no information about any real lack of safety. But's its also the case that parents who are currently zoned for Deal tend to view it as a superior school to Hardy by most measures (size excepted, where Hardy's smaller size is enviable). Now that the DME has all but said that Hardy will not feed to Wilson in the future, no one currently zoned for Deal will want that changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eaton parents are the worse. They have been throwing shit on Hardy at meetings , blogs, DCUM, without ever visiting the school.
Most of them are OOB, and still they do not care to throw trash on the OOB kids attending Hardy... Just because they have been hit by a lucky star at a lottery and got a spot for 5 years at Eaton.

I hope they stay away from Hardy, and keep their bad attitude elsewhere.

Actually, Eaton families are the best.
You clearly have never spoken to an Eaton parent because none of us would tolerate the nonsense from your post. You have no idea what you are talking about.
The Eaton community supports both Deal and Hardy. We were given the "dual feeder" status in 2009 by Rhee in an obviously political move that had nothing to do with Eaton. Eaton has fed to Deal for decades with many families choosing Hardy in the Patrick Pope days. We were not part of the instability that happened as a result of Rhee's decisions.
Eaton is a great school with kids from all over the city, excellent test scores, interesting opportunities for our kids, a great community and reasonable, smart parents who want what's best for our kids. That's it-no bad attitude or throwing anything anywhere.
I can't even believe I spent all that time responding to your nonsense.

Then you'd better spend it reading the rants of your Eaton mates in a DCUM topic of some weeks ago about Eaton being thrown under the bus by the DME proposals.
Hundreds of entries there. Unless you have a graphomaniac parent, there was a multitude of Eaton parents posting there and saying the worse against Hardy. As a current Hardy parent I was annoyed and offended by the content of those postings, the sense of entitlement, and most of all the mis/false information of most entries. Hardy parents had to spend time amending all the misleading information presented by Eaton posters, including false claims about violence and bullying in the school.

I'll be eager to watch this gentle attitude towards Hardy you are referring to at the forthcoming meeting with the DME in Cleveland Park. We will be there, to make sure not a single false statement is made against Hardy while we are trying to strenghten our school. I'll post an update after that....

I don't think it's useful to "bash" Hardy and certainly I have no information about any real lack of safety. But's its also the case that parents who are currently zoned for Deal tend to view it as a superior school to Hardy by most measures (size excepted, where Hardy's smaller size is enviable). Now that the DME has all but said that Hardy will not feed to Wilson in the future, no one currently zoned for Deal will want that changed.

A more demonstrably false statement could hardly be typed. Well done, you ignorant naif. Everyone else: ignore this person's post(s).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eaton parents are the worse. They have been throwing shit on Hardy at meetings , blogs, DCUM, without ever visiting the school.
Most of them are OOB, and still they do not care to throw trash on the OOB kids attending Hardy... Just because they have been hit by a lucky star at a lottery and got a spot for 5 years at Eaton.

I hope they stay away from Hardy, and keep their bad attitude elsewhere.

Actually, Eaton families are the best.
You clearly have never spoken to an Eaton parent because none of us would tolerate the nonsense from your post. You have no idea what you are talking about.
The Eaton community supports both Deal and Hardy. We were given the "dual feeder" status in 2009 by Rhee in an obviously political move that had nothing to do with Eaton. Eaton has fed to Deal for decades with many families choosing Hardy in the Patrick Pope days. We were not part of the instability that happened as a result of Rhee's decisions.
Eaton is a great school with kids from all over the city, excellent test scores, interesting opportunities for our kids, a great community and reasonable, smart parents who want what's best for our kids. That's it-no bad attitude or throwing anything anywhere.
I can't even believe I spent all that time responding to your nonsense.

Then you'd better spend it reading the rants of your Eaton mates in a DCUM topic of some weeks ago about Eaton being thrown under the bus by the DME proposals.
Hundreds of entries there. Unless you have a graphomaniac parent, there was a multitude of Eaton parents posting there and saying the worse against Hardy. As a current Hardy parent I was annoyed and offended by the content of those postings, the sense of entitlement, and most of all the mis/false information of most entries. Hardy parents had to spend time amending all the misleading information presented by Eaton posters, including false claims about violence and bullying in the school.

I'll be eager to watch this gentle attitude towards Hardy you are referring to at the forthcoming meeting with the DME in Cleveland Park. We will be there, to make sure not a single false statement is made against Hardy while we are trying to strenghten our school. I'll post an update after that....

I don't think it's useful to "bash" Hardy and certainly I have no information about any real lack of safety. But's its also the case that parents who are currently zoned for Deal tend to view it as a superior school to Hardy by most measures (size excepted, where Hardy's smaller size is enviable). Now that the DME has all but said that Hardy will not feed to Wilson in the future, no one currently zoned for Deal will want that changed.

A more demonstrably false statement could hardly be typed. Well done, you ignorant naif. Everyone else: ignore this person's post(s).

+1 In fact, the DME said precisely the opposite - that she is confident that once they Wilson boundaries with the Deal and Hardy boundaries, she is very confident that Hardy can continue to feed into Wilson.

This thread will soon enter the "threads with falsehoods about Hardy" Hall of Fame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eaton parents are the worse. They have been throwing shit on Hardy at meetings , blogs, DCUM, without ever visiting the school.
Most of them are OOB, and still they do not care to throw trash on the OOB kids attending Hardy... Just because they have been hit by a lucky star at a lottery and got a spot for 5 years at Eaton.

I hope they stay away from Hardy, and keep their bad attitude elsewhere.

Actually, Eaton families are the best.
You clearly have never spoken to an Eaton parent because none of us would tolerate the nonsense from your post. You have no idea what you are talking about.
The Eaton community supports both Deal and Hardy. We were given the "dual feeder" status in 2009 by Rhee in an obviously political move that had nothing to do with Eaton. Eaton has fed to Deal for decades with many families choosing Hardy in the Patrick Pope days. We were not part of the instability that happened as a result of Rhee's decisions.
Eaton is a great school with kids from all over the city, excellent test scores, interesting opportunities for our kids, a great community and reasonable, smart parents who want what's best for our kids. That's it-no bad attitude or throwing anything anywhere.
I can't even believe I spent all that time responding to your nonsense.

Then you'd better spend it reading the rants of your Eaton mates in a DCUM topic of some weeks ago about Eaton being thrown under the bus by the DME proposals.
Hundreds of entries there. Unless you have a graphomaniac parent, there was a multitude of Eaton parents posting there and saying the worse against Hardy. As a current Hardy parent I was annoyed and offended by the content of those postings, the sense of entitlement, and most of all the mis/false information of most entries. Hardy parents had to spend time amending all the misleading information presented by Eaton posters, including false claims about violence and bullying in the school.

I'll be eager to watch this gentle attitude towards Hardy you are referring to at the forthcoming meeting with the DME in Cleveland Park. We will be there, to make sure not a single false statement is made against Hardy while we are trying to strenghten our school. I'll post an update after that....

I don't think it's useful to "bash" Hardy and certainly I have no information about any real lack of safety. But's its also the case that parents who are currently zoned for Deal tend to view it as a superior school to Hardy by most measures (size excepted, where Hardy's smaller size is enviable). Now that the DME has all but said that Hardy will not feed to Wilson in the future, no one currently zoned for Deal will want that changed.

A more demonstrably false statement could hardly be typed. Well done, you ignorant naif. Everyone else: ignore this person's post(s).

+1 In fact, the DME said precisely the opposite - that she is confident that once they Wilson boundaries with the Deal and Hardy boundaries, she is very confident that Hardy can continue to feed into Wilson.

This thread will soon enter the "threads with falsehoods about Hardy" Hall of Fame.

Two questions:

Has she officially disavowed the written statement in the proposals that Hardy would feed to a high school to be determined? (In the written materials, it was unclear whether the new school would be east or west of Rock Creek Park?)

I'm curious -- are you an IB parent and, if so, which elementary school are you zoned for?

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure who you're asking. I called you a naif. I am also the person with the lengthy post about options (1), (2a), (2b) and (2c) from earlier today.

I'm IB for Mann but my children will not be attending Hardy. This is no fault of Hardy; my wife is European and "we" want our children to have European-country certification and curriculum immersion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure who you're asking. I called you a naif. I am also the person with the lengthy post about options (1), (2a), (2b) and (2c) from earlier today.

I'm IB for Mann but my children will not be attending Hardy. This is no fault of Hardy; my wife is European and "we" want our children to have European-country certification and curriculum immersion.

[Anonymous]

Why are Hardy students banned from the social Safeway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eaton parents are the worse. They have been throwing shit on Hardy at meetings , blogs, DCUM, without ever visiting the school.
Most of them are OOB, and still they do not care to throw trash on the OOB kids attending Hardy... Just because they have been hit by a lucky star at a lottery and got a spot for 5 years at Eaton.

I hope they stay away from Hardy, and keep their bad attitude elsewhere.

Actually, Eaton families are the best.
You clearly have never spoken to an Eaton parent because none of us would tolerate the nonsense from your post. You have no idea what you are talking about.
The Eaton community supports both Deal and Hardy. We were given the "dual feeder" status in 2009 by Rhee in an obviously political move that had nothing to do with Eaton. Eaton has fed to Deal for decades with many families choosing Hardy in the Patrick Pope days. We were not part of the instability that happened as a result of Rhee's decisions.
Eaton is a great school with kids from all over the city, excellent test scores, interesting opportunities for our kids, a great community and reasonable, smart parents who want what's best for our kids. That's it-no bad attitude or throwing anything anywhere.
I can't even believe I spent all that time responding to your nonsense.

Then you'd better spend it reading the rants of your Eaton mates in a DCUM topic of some weeks ago about Eaton being thrown under the bus by the DME proposals.
Hundreds of entries there. Unless you have a graphomaniac parent, there was a multitude of Eaton parents posting there and saying the worse against Hardy. As a current Hardy parent I was annoyed and offended by the content of those postings, the sense of entitlement, and most of all the mis/false information of most entries. Hardy parents had to spend time amending all the misleading information presented by Eaton posters, including false claims about violence and bullying in the school.

I'll be eager to watch this gentle attitude towards Hardy you are referring to at the forthcoming meeting with the DME in Cleveland Park. We will be there, to make sure not a single false statement is made against Hardy while we are trying to strenghten our school. I'll post an update after that....

I don't think it's useful to "bash" Hardy and certainly I have no information about any real lack of safety. But's its also the case that parents who are currently zoned for Deal tend to view it as a superior school to Hardy by most measures (size excepted, where Hardy's smaller size is enviable). Now that the DME has all but said that Hardy will not feed to Wilson in the future, no one currently zoned for Deal will want that changed.

A more demonstrably false statement could hardly be typed. Well done, you ignorant naif. Everyone else: ignore this person's post(s).

+1 In fact, the DME said precisely the opposite - that she is confident that once they Wilson boundaries with the Deal and Hardy boundaries, she is very confident that Hardy can continue to feed into Wilson.

This thread will soon enter the "threads with falsehoods about Hardy" Hall of Fame.

Two questions:

Has she officially disavowed the written statement in the proposals that Hardy would feed to a high school to be determined? (In the written materials, it was unclear whether the new school would be east or west of Rock Creek Park?)

I'm curious -- are you an IB parent and, if so, which elementary school are you zoned for?

Way to move the goalposts on this one.

Who cares about the answers to these questions. One poster made a demonstrably false statement, claiming that DME Smith "all but said" that Hardy would not feed Wilson. In fact, she said exactly the opposite.

Who cares if the person who pointed out the falsehood is IB or OB?

If the person is IB, are you more or less likely to believe the original lie that DME Smith said Hardy won't feed Wilson?