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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your old friend, the current IB Hardy parent, just checking in to this thread again to point out that Hardy is a very solid school now, with students that attend from 6-8th and then get into the most selective privates and DCPS magnets.

Hardy next year will offer Geometry in the building, so you can stop worrying about that.   As a bonus, the Math program is run by the award-winning Sarah Bax - arguably the best teacher in DCPS.

Hardy offers a full range of language courses, including ASL.

I know this may shock some parents, but Hardy offers opportunities for students - especially in music and in the gifted and talented programs - that are better than those offered at Deal.

Principal Pride is doing a great job - teachers are happy, students are happy, and there is a great learning environment.

Please give Hardy a fair shot before bashing the school.   Your perceptions from 10, or 5, or even 3 years ago are very out of date.

It's a great place to go to school, and you won't regret sending your student there.[/quote]

Thanks, that is great to hear.  I am in the Eaton district and am not opposed to feeding to Hardy.  It really does make more sense than moving some of the other Deal feeders.  I also support the idea of having each elementary school feed to two middle schools.  In the Eaton/JKLM area that would guarantee a great Hardy, I have no doubt.

BUT it will all be destroyed if a path isn't guaranteed from Hardy/Deal to Wilson.  The improvements at Hardy will cease and Deal will slip down.  The parents that have and will invest in Hardy and Deal will not do so if they know they cannot count on Wilson, and that their kids may not those same great kids, IB and OOB, that have come through middle school with them.  A city-wide lottery for HS will mean massive flight to the burbs and private schools and a downslide for all the DC public schools that are now good, elementary, middle and high school.  This is on top of decreasing tax revenues to fund schools when the higher SES folks leave.  It's just common sense.  No one likes uncertainty, particularly parents.  A lottery based system for high school will just drive the high SES WArd 3 people away and with them will go a great Eaton, Hearst, Hardy, and perhaps even JKLM.

And what about raising the standards of the schools outside of Ward 3.  People are kidding themselves if they think this proposal would do that.  It does NOTHING to help the failing schools.   They will slide even lower.   It is great that many parents outside of the Deal/Wilson district schlep their kids across town to attend the feeder schools and get involved in the schools.  It's what makes these schools great.  But it doesn't work the other way around.  [b]Ward 3 high SES parents are simply not going to schlepp their kids across town to Eastern or Coolidge and invest in those schools.  They will leave.  So for the lesser performing schools there will be flight for the lucky lottery winners and no injection of needed resources, human or otherwise.  A city-wide lottery for HS is a lose-lose situation.  [/b]  [/quote]

Yes.  This. Exactly.[/quote]

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