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WTF is happening at HARDY??????????
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Anonymous
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You might have "heard" the new principal at Hardy is approachable, but she is in way over her head and hasn't the slightest clue how to run a middle school. Even with THREE assistant principals and various officials showing up at Hardy, the situation is no better. Now Hyde- Addison parents are concerned their shared principal isn't doing a very good job at either school.
http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/thedish/hardy-parents-erupt-over-chancellors-letter |
Anonymous
| Yeah, I've heard Hyde is suffering too. What did you expect? |
Anonymous
Yikes. 18 comments and not one of them in defense of Rhee's decision to make Dana Nerenberg. You'd think if she were even marginally competent that at least one voice would step forward for her. |
Anonymous
| Wow. I had no idea that Hyde parents were unhappy as well! |
Anonymous
| Go Hardy go. |
Anonymous
| What would it take for Hardy to go charter? As a charter school, Hardy could choose staffing independent of DCPS (hire Pope back). And, the school could create whatever kind of program independent of DCPS (instrumental music). Something to think about... |
Anonymous
Perhaps this is part of the plan -- let Hardy fall into chaos so a charter can move in. |
Anonymous
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You do realize that if Hardy went charter it would no longer be a neighborhood school? Everyone in the city could enter the lottery on equal footing.
Maybe what you are envisioning is a take over of Hardy by a private company....that is entirely different. |
Anonymous
| Deal is at capacity so that will never happen. More likely they will kill the arts program altogether making it less appealing as an oob option and it will just go back to being a regular old dc middle school. |
Anonymous
| Hardy is a good school and will continue to improve. Issues with Hardy are both real and manageable. This too shall pass. If Hardy can't succeed with its favorable position, who can? |
Anonymous
| This obstinate stalemate, keeping a good MS principal on payroll downtown pushing paper when he could simply take over Hardy with whatever lessons learned from whatever it is the Key parents wanted, is so boring and frustrating. Pope should be re-evaluated and placed back at Hardy, and leave him an extra AP. The principal of a transitional school must be able to address the needs of parents from every ward in the city, and that is where the half-time ES principal is falling short. Little kids from poor background at comfy Hyde ES do not translate to easy navigational paths in puberty and adolescence. Whatever Pope's weaknesses (which I still haven't heard any Pope naysayers report with any facts) were his strengths were in making the KIDS all feel respected and capable of performing at a high level. No excuses, high expectations, that's how Hardy students felt with Pope. Unfortunately the surrounding white MS families believe a principal should also suit their petty adult personalities. |
Anonymous
| There are a VERY small handful of Hyde parents who are unhappy - and it seems like, just like those unhappy parents at Hardy, those few parents are yelling their message all over the blogs and message boards. The rest of us know exactly who those few are and when we see them coming on the playground, we go in the opposite direction. Things are the same as last year at Hyde. |
Anonymous
It is willful ignorance to suggest that only a few parents at Hardy are unhappy. It is correct to state that only a few parents, if any at all, are happy at Hardy. |
Anonymous
| Oh for heaven's sake, it is willfully annoying to make sweeping claims on behalf of anyone except yourself. I have no idea what percentage of parents at Hyde or Hardy are unhappy, happy, partially happy, kind of unhappy, a touch peeved, giddy or any other emotion and neither do the previous posters. |