how is Hardy doing this year?

[Anonymous]

Rising 6th-grade parent here. Many of my son's classmates are choosing private options so they can be ensured they get in school vs. DL. Considering everything, are you feeling hopeful about school in the Fall?

[Anonymous]

Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but I think we'll be back next year. DL is DL...its fine. My kid is doing okay, but looking forward to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rising 6th-grade parent here. Many of my son's classmates are choosing private options so they can be ensured they get in school vs. DL. Considering everything, are you feeling hopeful about school in the Fall?

All of Janney 5th grade is applying to private too. The reality is that a fraction of these kids will be accepted to private. Most will be at Hardy or Deal.

[Anonymous]

How often are you kids in school this year at Deal and Hardy? Mostly or all DL?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How often are you kids in school this year at Deal and Hardy? Mostly or all DL?

Have you looked at the reopen plans for individual schools on the reopendc website? Every middle school across the district is open one day a week. This isn’t a Deal thing.

[Anonymous]

Our kid goes in part time one day a week. He may as well be home but Covid!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rising 6th-grade parent here. Many of my son's classmates are choosing private options so they can be ensured they get in school vs. DL. Considering everything, are you feeling hopeful about school in the Fall?

All of Janney 5th grade is applying to private too. The reality is that a fraction of these kids will be accepted to private. Most will be at Hardy or Deal.

Or most will be on Moco or FCPS, and fraction at Hardy or Deal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rising 6th-grade parent here. Many of my son's classmates are choosing private options so they can be ensured they get in school vs. DL. Considering everything, are you feeling hopeful about school in the Fall?

All of Janney 5th grade is applying to private too. The reality is that a fraction of these kids will be accepted to private. Most will be at Hardy or Deal.

Or most will be on Moco or FCPS, and fraction at Hardy or Deal?

I imagine applications to privates are up this year but thought most of the Janney/JKLM go on to Deal? Is this not the case this year? Anyone have stats?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How often are you kids in school this year at Deal and Hardy? Mostly or all DL?

Have you looked at the reopen plans for individual schools on the reopendc website? Every middle school across the district is open one day a week. This isn’t a Deal thing.

To further expand on this OP you can see on the plans that Deal has 100 students one day a week and Hardy has 33.

100 out of over 1400 at Deal.
33 out of over 450 at Harry.

Pathetic. Since Hardy is smaller they may be able to get it together by the fall. But this is DCPS. Doubtful.

[Anonymous]

So most Deal/Hardy kids are in school 1 day a week? I can't seem to find info on their websites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So most Deal/Hardy kids are in school 1 day a week? I can't seem to find info on their websites.

For Deal it is about 100 kids who are struggling coming from 9-12 Wednesdays for extra support - not classes.

[Anonymous]

We're at 5th grade at Janney and we're not applying to private. I'm sure that some of DC's friends are applying out, but none that I'm aware of. Some parents definitely keep applications on the down-low, but among our good friends who I'm fairly certain would tell us if they are applying out, all are headed to Deal. And as one of the prior posters mentions, only a fraction of kids get into "Top 3/5" schools, so if that's what parents are looking for or else they won't pay the $45k/year, most kids will be at Deal. Even if there is hybrid in the fall, most adults will be vaccinated and the kids will have far fewer restrictions placed on them. I'm not looking forward to DL next year, but I think we could survive a 2-3/week hybrid for another semester, if needed, because most likely all the extracurriculars will be back in full swing and kids won't be going crazy at home 24/7. If my kid can get to sleepaway camp for a normal summer, which it looks like will happen, that will buy us another few months of DL without going crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So most Deal/Hardy kids are in school 1 day a week? I can't seem to find info on their websites.

For Deal it is about 100 kids who are struggling coming from 9-12 Wednesdays for extra support - not classes.

I think it's closer to 150-60 split evenly among the three grades; still pathetic and not in person instruction. It's helped my son with organization & caring about school again, and gives him something to look forward to (and a reason to get out of bed on Weds.) so I guess it's better than nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're at 5th grade at Janney and we're not applying to private. I'm sure that some of DC's friends are applying out, but none that I'm aware of. Some parents definitely keep applications on the down-low, but among our good friends who I'm fairly certain would tell us if they are applying out, all are headed to Deal. And as one of the prior posters mentions, only a fraction of kids get into "Top 3/5" schools, so if that's what parents are looking for or else they won't pay the $45k/year, most kids will be at Deal. Even if there is hybrid in the fall, most adults will be vaccinated and the kids will have far fewer restrictions placed on them. I'm not looking forward to DL next year, but I think we could survive a 2-3/week hybrid for another semester, if needed, because most likely all the extracurriculars will be back in full swing and kids won't be going crazy at home 24/7. If my kid can get to sleepaway camp for a normal summer, which it looks like will happen, that will buy us another few months of DL without going crazy.

My 5th grade Janney kid has 5 good friends and 5/6 (all but us) applied to private for 6th. These are all families who are committed to Deal (each has an older kid who attends or attended Deal) but they want in-person learning. We also have an older child at Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rising 6th-grade parent here. Many of my son's classmates are choosing private options so they can be ensured they get in school vs. DL. Considering everything, are you feeling hopeful about school in the Fall?

All of Janney 5th grade is applying to private too. The reality is that a fraction of these kids will be accepted to private. Most will be at Hardy or Deal.

More than usual? Probably.

All? Hardly.