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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardy has a good music program until this year.  Pre-Covid, a jazz orchestra and some other combo would play at the open houses, abd they were excellent.

But Hardy used to have more OOB.  It still has OOB, but they all come from the feeder schools.  Maybe this is why DCPS decided to screw over the school budget-wise.[/quote]

Hardy had a good music program because it was an unofficial magnet (and Duke feeder). In boundary families hated it, I can only assume because it attracted Black students. Michelle Rhee shut it down with a lot of support from the neighborhood, probably around 2010 ish when they were moving to a centralized DCPS lottery. Sounds like COVID finished off the last remnants. Kind of ironic that the neighborhood is sad about it now. [/quote]

In boundary families hated good musicians coming to their school in preparation for going to one of the best arts HS in the country? Sounds like BS[/quote]

Nobody can possibly be this naive. You see, the in boundary families were [i]white[/i]. The musicians were [i]Black[/i]. Or as the classic DCUM comment put it,

“it was unfair to IB families that Pope transformed their neighborhood school into what was essentially an arts magnet school.”

[url]https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/120/363908.page#4758087[/url]

Pope was the old principal. There’s a lot of archives on this site, you could try reading some of them before you decide what’s plausible. [/quote]

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