Hardy MS reviews
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Anonymous
| Current parents, what do you like and not like about the school? If you are at a feder, do you plan to send your child or switch to private? |
Anonymous
| At a feeder and my 5th grader will go there next year absent a miraculous lottery result that gets him in to BASIS (and even then it’d be a hard choice). Principal seems awesome and I like that it’s about a third the size of Deal. The only thing I don’t like is that Maret and Jack Evans stole Hardy’s playing fields for the next 9 years. |
Anonymous
| Thanks, I am also interested in this topic so any comments welcomely received! |
Anonymous
| No first hand experience here, but if it feeds into Wilson, it can't be bad bad, right? Different from Deal, but not really meaningfully if all kids end up in the same place, right? |
Anonymous
Er, not right. What kind of vapid logic is that? |
Anonymous
| what she means is, if the demographics are all [], it's all right. It can't be that bad bad, right? |
Anonymous
+1. My 5th grader will be going next year. The online meeting our school had with the principal was informative and I liked him a lot. We aren’t playing the lottery for any charters though. And shame on Bowser & Maret for renewing that contract. |
Anonymous
| I have a lot of friends with kids at Hardy and overall they love it. Principal Cooke is awesome, and there are some really lovely and engaged teachers. I hear amazing things about the italian teacher! |
Anonymous
| Is it good for kids that are quite advanced? |
Anonymous
Explain like those of us with kindergarteners have no idea yet, then. If the test scores for the feeder elementaries are comparable to Deal feeders (granted I just compared Eaton and Lafayette, so maybe there are big discrepancies at other feeders), and the kids all end up at Wilson taking the same classes, then I assume kids will get roughly the same academic quality at both Hardy and Deal. The only negative I've ever really heard about Hardy is that it isn't Deal... |
Anonymous
They do have Schoolwide Enrichment Model, which was a pretty fun structure for my kids in elementary school. No idea how it works in middle school. |
Anonymous
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Use the search function, this topic has been covered a zillion times.
The school is very likely moving to the old Georgetown Day School campus on MacArthur Blvd in fall 2022. I pretty much guarantee it. |
Anonymous
Which elementary school was this and did you think the SEM program was a valuable add or more just fun? |
Anonymous
I'd bet there will be a legal challenge to the acquisition of the GDS property. I think the school will eventually move, but much later than 2022. But yes, the school is great. And when it moves to GDS, it'll act as another barrier to poorer families on the other side of town and will likely become more 'local' and draw all the Key and Mann families (in addition to the current stoddert, eaton, and hyde ones) Also RIP parking in foxhall. I'm going to drive my kid there, park in the neighborhood - zone 3 - and then walk to work in georgetown. |