DCPS made Deal take dozens of OOB, despite overcrowding

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Wrong Barry actually liked people. Bowser? Not so much but it's DC and you folks will vote her in anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Wrong Barry actually liked people. Bowser? Not so much but it's DC and you folks will vote her in anyway.

Say what you will about Barry but he did a great job serving his constituents! He actually got stuff done. I think white people like to hear what they want to hear and no action is actually ever taken, see Trump and Congress.

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Anonymous wrote:I still also don't get tho are they going to hold the enrollment at Deal down the slots 'saved' by moving the Eaton kids to Hardy - or are they just going to fill up to capacity and then still have those kids at Hardy, which will be filled to capacity too. Isn't that just making more room for additional OOB at Deal (but presumably lower OOB at Hardy I guess)?

Politically and socially/racially, DCPS has to maintain strong OOB levels in WOTP schools. Discussion over.

Nah, not over. And when those WOTP schools become overcrowded with IB students alone, what then?

They will almost certainly still find a way to have a significant OOB population. Wilson is by far DC's best performing high school. It will be politically untenable for it to become virtually exclusively rich and almost entirely white. It seems like some who have moved into UNW recently do not understand where the political power base in this city resides. While demographics in the city are changing, it will be a very long time before, if ever, city hall is focused on the concerns of UNW/the DCUM crowd over other segments of the city.

But what is the impact on Deal of moving Eaton - does it actually allievate any of the overcrowding?

No, but it helps Hardy by building a larger cohort of higher SES students. For what it's worth, my child is in 6th grade at Hardy this year after attending our IB feeder since PK and we are having a really good year.

But it doesn't help these kids to go from the top DC middle school to an also-ran, particularly when DCPS continues to cram OOB students into Deal. I suppose that's some downtown bureaucrat's misguided notion of "social justice."

Granting this was ridiculous. So granting that & moving on, ... Hardy is really small -- so I guess if even 30-40 of the 70+ 5th graders from Eaton go to Hardy next year, they would constitute 24-30% of Hardy's 6th grade class. Stoddert is expected to send closer to 40 next year. Combined that would make up 45-60 percent of Hardy's 6th grade. Add in 10-15 each from Mann, Key and Hyde (and Mann may have more) - you're up to 68-85%ish percent of Hardy's 6th grade... and it does start looking demographically Deal-like...

So if the demographics catch up, will Hardy's program and faculty catch up as well? Or doesn't that matter?

The faculty is fine. They can teach your kids as well as kids from other parts of the city.

What “programming” are you seeking? Keep in mind a school of 360-400 kids can’t support the level of extracurriculars as a school of 1000+.

Thank you PP. The teaching staff at Hardy is terrific. My child is learning a lot and takes honors math and ELA. My child’s schedule is jammed packed as is so I’m not sure what other extra curriculars he’d have time to take. It’s great that Deal has a million clubs, but that’s out of necessity in trying to keep 1600 (?!??) students engaged. We are very happy with our experience thus far. Plus, for those who don’t look beyond test scores, last week, Hardy was recognized for the most growth in first quarter assessments compared to last year and for its top math scores on nearly every standard compared to all other public middle schools in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Wrong Barry actually liked people. Bowser? Not so much but it's DC and you folks will vote her in anyway.

Say what you will about Barry but he did a great job serving his constituents! He actually got stuff done. I think white people like to hear what they want to hear and no action is actually ever taken, see Trump and Congress.

If you think that no toilet paper in the public schools, few school textbooks, spotty garbage collection, no DC snow plowing, a dysfunctional police force, thousands of no-show DC government jobs and multiple DC agencies in court receivership was a "great job serving his constituents" and "[getting] stuff done," then I speechless.

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Anonymous wrote:It would make no sense for Janney to be rezoned from Deal. PP who is mad at Frumin is nuts. I get that his word choice was unfortunate but it wasn’t about protecting Janney. Janney is closest to Deal after Murch. All the kids from the Janney and Deal neighbourhood walk to Deal. How would it make sense forcing them into Hardy. Also, there is no magic formula to Deal. Once you get enough high SES kids going to Hardy, it will be the same as Deal.

At least Frumin's political career, which never really got off the ground, is effectively over. There is that.

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Anonymous wrote:Wrong Barry actually liked people. Bowser? Not so much but it's DC and you folks will vote her in anyway.

Say what you will about Barry but he did a great job serving his constituents! He actually got stuff done. I think white people like to hear what they want to hear and no action is actually ever taken, see Trump and Congress.

It's entirely possible for Barry to have "served his constituents" (diverting tax dollars to people who don't/won't work, institutionalizing graft and corruption in local government that lives on to this day, celebrating a culture of low achievement, prostitution and addiction, etc.) and still have been a net negative for the District of Columbia.

He was a low life. The rest of us are still paying for his sins.

[Anonymous]

Barry is what happens when the monkeys run the zoo.

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Anonymous wrote:Wrong Barry actually liked people. Bowser? Not so much but it's DC and you folks will vote her in anyway.

Say what you will about Barry but he did a great job serving his constituents! He actually got stuff done. I think white people like to hear what they want to hear and no action is actually ever taken, see Trump and Congress.

It's entirely possible for Barry to have "served his constituents" (diverting tax dollars to people who don't/won't work, institutionalizing graft and corruption in local government that lives on to this day, celebrating a culture of low achievement, prostitution and addiction, etc.) and still have been a net negative for the District of Columbia.

He was a low life. The rest of us are still paying for his sins.

In most respects, it was Barry's base that bore the brunt of his wanton incompetence and graft culture. Many Washingtonians of means coped by minimizing their contacts with the DC government, sending their kids to private school, calling on Chevy Chase volunteer ambulance and hoping that if they were in a car accident that it would be the Capitol Police or Secret Service uniformed division, rather than MPD, that would arrive to sort it out. However, Barry's base -- "the least, the last and the lost" -- as he described them, depended on municipal services for their basic safety net. Yet Barry and his DC government totally disserved them.

[Anonymous]

We're in Hearst zone and I would have zero issue were we rezone for Hardy. What a gorgeous facility and the location a stones throw from Georgetown and ON Wisconsin can't be beat. If I were in middle school Id love that. I hope they continue to develop their program. The school has potential.

[Anonymous]

I'm all for a Barry statue (which is in the works) as long as it has a big middle finger thrust up to the heavens:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1989/09/21/barry-apologizes-to-quell-outrage-over-vulgarism/ff8691be-506e-45e1-8f8e-fc10072cabff/?utm_term=.7312e956ca2f

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Anonymous wrote:We're in Hearst zone and I would have zero issue were we rezone for Hardy. What a gorgeous facility and the location a stones throw from Georgetown and ON Wisconsin can't be beat. If I were in middle school Id love that. I hope they continue to develop their program. The school has potential.

Troll.

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Anonymous wrote:We're in Hearst zone and I would have zero issue were we rezone for Hardy. What a gorgeous facility and the location a stones throw from Georgetown and ON Wisconsin can't be beat. If I were in middle school Id love that. I hope they continue to develop their program. The school has potential.

Troll.

Hardy is going to be very different starting next year, with Eaton moving over (we can re-litigate if that was a good decision but it's happening) - it's a very small school.

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Anonymous wrote:We're in Hearst zone and I would have zero issue were we rezone for Hardy. What a gorgeous facility and the location a stones throw from Georgetown and ON Wisconsin can't be beat. If I were in middle school Id love that. I hope they continue to develop their program. The school has potential.

Troll.

Hardy is going to be very different starting next year, with Eaton moving over (we can re-litigate if that was a good decision but it's happening) - it's a very small school.

Eaton already moved over this year. I strongly suspect that the person posting is not from Hearst, but would like Hearst to move. I am not denying that Hardy has a lot going for it. But Eaton had dual rights (to both Deal and Hardy) for several year, and essentially no one chose to send their children to Hardy.

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Anonymous wrote:We're in Hearst zone and I would have zero issue were we rezone for Hardy. What a gorgeous facility and the location a stones throw from Georgetown and ON Wisconsin can't be beat. If I were in middle school Id love that. I hope they continue to develop their program. The school has potential.

Troll.

Hardy is going to be very different starting next year, with Eaton moving over (we can re-litigate if that was a good decision but it's happening) - it's a very small school.

This is DCPS' lazy, lackluster strategy. They don't have to do anything different at Hardy, they can just coast and not make hard choices on what they really need to do to catch up with Deal. All they have to do is force-march Eaton over to Hardy and look forward to a resulting modest bump in scores. And then claim credit for improvement.

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Anonymous wrote:We're in Hearst zone and I would have zero issue were we rezone for Hardy. What a gorgeous facility and the location a stones throw from Georgetown and ON Wisconsin can't be beat. If I were in middle school Id love that. I hope they continue to develop their program. The school has potential.

Troll.

Hardy is going to be very different starting next year, with Eaton moving over (we can re-litigate if that was a good decision but it's happening) - it's a very small school.

Eaton already moved over this year. I strongly suspect that the person posting is not from Hearst, but would like Hearst to move. I am not denying that Hardy has a lot going for it. But Eaton had dual rights (to both Deal and Hardy) for several year, and essentially no one chose to send their children to Hardy.

Hearst is never going to Hardy. They know that one reason why Hearst is considered a "hot" Northwest school now, when Eaton traditionally was more attractive, is that Hearst feeds to Deal. Eaton no longer.