So how many IB are going to really be at Hardy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Release what? Who should release it? Do you think the Principal should do a press release? Post in the website? or what? Do you have any idea of the fact that the only statitistics that schools are allowed to publish on their polpulation are the school profiles compiled by DCPS ? Do you mean that DCPS should make a special issue of its OB/IB statistics for Hardy?
What do you mean "release"? Who should release the numbers, and where?
I do not get what you want.
Hardy parents have already leaked the statistics, just see posts from a couple of weeks ago.
The school and the Principal are not authorized to release demographics of the current student population.
If you want "off-the-records" information, send an email to the Principal and ask to meet with her, she will surely give you the more-or-less numbers.

Those who continue to call for the IB number data release have no idea of how DCPS school degree of autonomy in releasing statistical or demographic data.

But the IB numbers will be posted on Hardy's DCPS school profile page, as they are on every DCPS' school profile page, whenever DCPS updates its profile pages (presumably sometime well after count day).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard that about 8 students from Key went to Hardy this year.

I heard four sixth graders who attended Key last year, plus two new eighth graders who moved IB for Key this year. I hope they all have a good experience.

2 key grads from the current 7th grade cohort attended. One left after 6th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard that about 8 students from Key went to Hardy this year.

I heard four sixth graders who attended Key last year, plus two new eighth graders who moved IB for Key this year. I hope they all have a good experience.

2 key grads from the current 7th grade cohort attended. One left after 6th.

2 to 8 would be a 300% increase. FWIW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard that about 8 students from Key went to Hardy this year.

I heard four sixth graders who attended Key last year, plus two new eighth graders who moved IB for Key this year. I hope they all have a good experience.

2 key grads from the current 7th grade cohort attended. One left after 6th.

I want to comment on this.

There is an oft-repeated claim that parents in the IB schools wouldn't consider Hardy no matter what. I put three kids through a Hardy feeder, and I can tell you people desperately wanted to send their kids to public middle school, and the state of Hardy was a constant source of discussion whenever parents got together. Every year my school would send a small number of kids to Hardy, and those kids were the object of intense observation: everyone wanted to know how it was working out for them, hoping that maybe this would be the year it worked out. It seemed like every parent in the school knew who those kids were and how it was going for them. Sadly, very few of those kids made it through Hardy, and a shockingly high percentage left partway through sixth grade. While my school sends a few kids to Hardy each year, I'm pretty sure only one has completed eighth grade in the past five years.

The back-and-forth above reinforces my observation. Everyone knows who went to Hardy, and what happened to them, because it's something they care about.

The biggest thing Hardy could do to attract in-boundary families would be to retain the ones who decide to attend for sixth grade.

[Anonymous]

Yawn.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard that about 8 students from Key went to Hardy this year.

I heard four sixth graders who attended Key last year, plus two new eighth graders who moved IB for Key this year. I hope they all have a good experience.

2 key grads from the current 7th grade cohort attended. One left after 6th.

I want to comment on this.

There is an oft-repeated claim that parents in the IB schools wouldn't consider Hardy no matter what. I put three kids through a Hardy feeder, and I can tell you people desperately wanted to send their kids to public middle school, and the state of Hardy was a constant source of discussion whenever parents got together. Every year my school would send a small number of kids to Hardy, and those kids were the object of intense observation: everyone wanted to know how it was working out for them, hoping that maybe this would be the year it worked out. It seemed like every parent in the school knew who those kids were and how it was going for them. Sadly, very few of those kids made it through Hardy, and a shockingly high percentage left partway through sixth grade. While my school sends a few kids to Hardy each year, I'm pretty sure only one has completed eighth grade in the past five years.

The back-and-forth above reinforces my observation. Everyone knows who went to Hardy, and what happened to them, because it's something they care about.

The biggest thing Hardy could do to attract in-boundary families would be to retain the ones who decide to attend for sixth grade.

Why do they leave? And where do they go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yawn.....

Nobody's forcing you to read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn.....

Nobody's forcing you to read.

I think that "Yawn" is a more polite version of "STFU." Clearly the PP doesn't want to hear or read other points of view that are other than Hardy-affirming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn.....

Nobody's forcing you to read.

I think that "Yawn" is a more polite version of "STFU." Clearly the PP doesn't want to hear or read other points of view that are other than Hardy-affirming.

You're very defensive about people telling you to STFU. Nobody has done so - are you just pretending that people have told you that so you can be angry at Hardy parents for some reason?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard that about 8 students from Key went to Hardy this year.

I heard four sixth graders who attended Key last year, plus two new eighth graders who moved IB for Key this year. I hope they all have a good experience.

2 key grads from the current 7th grade cohort attended. One left after 6th.

I want to comment on this.

There is an oft-repeated claim that parents in the IB schools wouldn't consider Hardy no matter what. I put three kids through a Hardy feeder, and I can tell you people desperately wanted to send their kids to public middle school, and the state of Hardy was a constant source of discussion whenever parents got together. Every year my school would send a small number of kids to Hardy, and those kids were the object of intense observation: everyone wanted to know how it was working out for them, hoping that maybe this would be the year it worked out. It seemed like every parent in the school knew who those kids were and how it was going for them. Sadly, very few of those kids made it through Hardy, and a shockingly high percentage left partway through sixth grade. While my school sends a few kids to Hardy each year, I'm pretty sure only one has completed eighth grade in the past five years.

The back-and-forth above reinforces my observation. Everyone knows who went to Hardy, and what happened to them, because it's something they care about.

The biggest thing Hardy could do to attract in-boundary families would be to retain the ones who decide to attend for sixth grade.

Why do they leave? And where do they go?

Some go private, some go Catholic, some go charter, some move IB for Deal, some move to the suburbs. In other words, they do what the rest of their classmates did, only six months to a year later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn.....

Nobody's forcing you to read.

I think that "Yawn" is a more polite version of "STFU." Clearly the PP doesn't want to hear or read other points of view that are other than Hardy-affirming.

No, I think the "yawn" is saying that after 42 pages, this is really tiring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


Some go private, some go Catholic, some go charter, some move IB for Deal, some move to the suburbs. In other words, they do what the rest of their classmates did, only six months to a year later.

I know one IB family who pulled their kid mid-year and home-schooled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn.....

Nobody's forcing you to read.

I think that "Yawn" is a more polite version of "STFU." Clearly the PP doesn't want to hear or read other points of view that are other than Hardy-affirming.

No, I think the "yawn" is saying that after 42 pages, this is really tiring.

It may be the case that the number of pages of this thread exceeds the number of in-boundary students who have chosen Hardy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn.....

Nobody's forcing you to read.

I think that "Yawn" is a more polite version of "STFU." Clearly the PP doesn't want to hear or read other points of view that are other than Hardy-affirming.

No, I think the "yawn" is saying that after 42 pages, this is really tiring.

It may be the case that the number of pages of this thread exceeds the number of in-boundary students who have chosen Hardy!

But not the number of IB students who have not chosen to go.

Hardy, the neighborhood school of perhaps the wealthiest neighborhood in DC, is being eschewed by its IB families.

Turning Hardy into a true neighborhood school shouldn't be so hard in the face of such obvious pent-up demand. It shouldn't require a grassroots campaign by activist parents supported by the principal. DCPS should simply do whatever it takes to get the IB families to come back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yawn.....

Nobody's forcing you to read.

I think that "Yawn" is a more polite version of "STFU." Clearly the PP doesn't want to hear or read other points of view that are other than Hardy-affirming.

No, I think the "yawn" is saying that after 42 pages, this is really tiring.

It may be the case that the number of pages of this thread exceeds the number of in-boundary students who have chosen Hardy!

But not the number of IB students who have not chosen to go.

Hardy, the neighborhood school of perhaps the wealthiest neighborhood in DC, is being eschewed by its IB families.

Turning Hardy into a true neighborhood school shouldn't be so hard in the face of such obvious pent-up demand. It shouldn't require a grassroots campaign by activist parents supported by the principal. DCPS should simply do whatever it takes to get the IB families to come back.

That may be your point of view so let me explain something. Hardy is not meant to be a "true" neighborhood school. I don't even want to go there, whatever true is supposed to mean. Hardy is a splendid and shining resource for all of DC not just one neighborhood. One city!