How has Hardy drawn inbound families?
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Anonymous
Because Principal Pride is aware of the double standard to which Hardy kids are held and does not want them to be in position where a bunch of ignorant fools can make judgments about them just because they are wearing Hardy uniforms. |
Anonymous
Eaton poster here. Just read through that thread and failed to see any shit throwing from the Eaton crowd there, let alone a "multitude of Eaton parents saying the worst about Hardy". We don't think like that, really. Please post a quote from an Eaton parent to prove me wrong if you are so inclined. In all honesty, at Eaton we have had discussions about working to be part of the positive Hardy trajectory. Eaton has representatives on committees of Hardy feeder schools.We talk about how Hardy could be the most sought after MS in a few short years. Although we were not part of the Rhee-Pope transition diffiulties, we are well aware of our situation and we will make the most of it for our kids. We are not naive, selfish, short sighted, entitled or whatever insult you would like to throw at us. We are concerned parents who have built a great school for our kids. We know that the continued success of Eaton hinges on predictablility and the confidence that our children will continue on to successful schools with their peers. The most troubling part of the potential change is the undefined high school situation-which was repeated many times on that thread. We are all on the same side here. Better schools, predictability, a DCPS that responds to parent concerns logically. Let's have constructive conversations instead of calling each other names and making accusations. |
Anonymous
Right. The Principal banned them. Got it. |
Anonymous
It's true - the Principal declared Safeway off limits. I know this because my child is a student there. You, I presume, are not a Hardy parent, and are providing a good example of the rumormongering and falsehoods that are spread by far too many people who know nothing about Hardy and have never set foot in the school. |
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Actually I am a Safeway regular. I can tell you that while it may be off limits (she made it off limits because of the GOOD behavior there?) the kids still go. But the street behavior outside is still horrendous. I just watched the kids harasses a mom with a stroller last week.
And for the record, I am completely supportive of Hardy. I think the principal is doing a great job and think it is well on its way to being a great school. But I do know there are behavior issues there. A lot of them. All I have to do is ask my child! See, I tend to hit Safeway after school when picking up my child from Hardy. Yes, I have spoken again and again and again to the principal. There is only so much she can do. |
Anonymous
Calling something a falsehood doesn't make it so. Read proposal B from DME Smith. It states in black and white that if Wilson is overcapacity, then DME/DCPS will consider option of sending Hardy students to an unspecified new high school rather than Wilson. It's pretty easy to see how Wilson gets to overcapacity, if it isn't already: existing feeder schools at capacity and a baby boom ongoing in places like AU Park, then add the OOB mandatory set asides, maintain OOB feeder rights, etc. If Smith said she didn't mean any of that statement in her proposal and disavows it, then I stand corrected. But it doesn't seem that she has. |
Anonymous
We should all hope that Pride stays a long time, for Hardy's sake. Remember that Pride goeth before a fall. 
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Anonymous
| Are Hardy students banned from Social Safeway? I know some of them flash mobbed it a couple of times (which should prevent them from going there during school hours); but I wasn't aware the school could ban them outright. |
Anonymous
| I think EVERY supermarket near a MS or HS is crazy with kids when school lets out-I pass the CVS and Whole Foods at Tenley nearly every school day around 3:45 and the entire city block there is a total nightmare. The students are not bad kids necessarily, but it is a mob descending on a residential area not equipped to cater to students and customers at the same time. The only difference is that those kids aren't wearing uniforms, so could technically be from a different school. |
Anonymous
I was at the Hardy PTO meeting. I spoke with her personally. The option to consider an unspecified new high school had to be put in there because of the current over crowding at Wilson. ALL options and plans are on the table. But that doesn't mean all have equal feasibility. There is no new high school being built. Ellington is in process of being renovated as a speciality high school. So this option B isn't feasible. Hardy will continue to feed to Wilson. Period. |
Anonymous
| How about the old Corcoran Space with the big parking lot? You could put a pretty big building or huge renovations in that space, if DCPS had the will to do it. There's a little kids' playground next to it, though, so I don't know if you'd want to put a high school there. |
Anonymous
Lemme see if I follow. Smith recommended in her report an "option" that if Wilson is overcrowded, Hardy would be taken out as a Wilson feeder and feed to a TBD "new high school." As Bill Clinton might say, it depends on what the meaning of the word "new" is. Some see it as a newly constructed high school , perhaps west of the Park. Others say any brand new high school construction is unlikely, especially west of the park, whether because no site other than Ellington is suitable or because of the usual politics of resentment in DC. A more sinister reading is that any TBD high school that is different than the current Wilson status quo is still a "new high school" to Hardy. Bowser, who remains the favorite to be the next mayor, says (in a uniquely unequivocal statement for her) that there will be no changes to Wilson boundaries east of the Park, especially in Ward 4. In-bounds enrollment in the current Wilson cluster elementary schools continue to climb and some are already overcrowded, so Wilson likely will be crowded into the future. As long as all options and plans remain on the table, under these facts and assumptions, we can't conclude at all that Hardy will continue to feed to Wilson. If Abigail Smith recants and repents and says the "new high school" for Hardy option was a horrible mistake and is off the table, maybe we can relax. But she hasn't done that and is unlikely to do so. |
Anonymous
| The plan will be released in a few weeks. Mark my words, there will be no mention of a high school other than Wilson for Hardy MS. |
Anonymous
Yes. We have every reason to believe this will be true based on what DME Smith said at the Hardy PTO meeting - that if the Wilson boundaries are aligned with the Hardy and Deal boundaries, she expects that there will be room for Hardy and Wilson students without overcrowding - hence no need for a new school |
Anonymous
That's a big"if". I fully agree with the PP who brought up the potentially nebulous meaning of "new high school". I have been a big supporter of DCPS-3 kids in the system right now-but I am growing very weary of feeling manipulated and trying to make sense of unclear language. "Fragile trust" is how Catania described how DCPS parents are feeling...very easy to break that trust, I am almost there. |