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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This notion that everything is just great at Hardy fails the truth test.  Branding those who raise concerns as trolls or 'haters' or racists does nothing to address the schools' fundamental issues.  As a blogger in another thread concluded, yes, there is something wrong at Hardy.  It's past time to fix it
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Nobody is branding every criticism of Hardy as the product of trolls, haters, or racists.   And nobody is saying that everying is "just great."   Hardy is solid, but not perfect.  It works for some families, but not for others.  It could stand to improve, sure.  But branding Hardy and its students as ill=prepared failures is unfair and also fails the truth test.[/quote]

Admittedly, we all have different standards.  However, I find it difficult to label a school in which 28% of the kids are not proficient in math and 34% are not proficient in reading "solid."  The DCCAS is not a hard test. [/quote]

You're entitled to your view.  But you also need to realize that the DCAS is a test of demographics more than anything else.  So yes, there is a cadre of low-performing kids that come into Hardy (some, I might add, come from IB schools - they are not all OOB students).   And those students to poorly on their DCAS tests.  But there is also a cadre of high-performing students (some from IB, some from OOB) at Hardy - and those students do great on their DCAS and go on to succeed at Wilson, at DCPS magnets, and at prestigious private schools.  The great thing about Hardy is that it serves both sets of students quite well.   The notion that Hardy is not "solid" for your kid because there other kids for whom it is not necessarily "solid" is incorrect.  [/quote]

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