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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS middle schools are somewhat better now than 10 years ago.  Hardy is tons better.  EH and maybe SH are somewhat better.  John Francis, Ida Wells, and maybe the planned new Euclid middle school all have potential.  Elementary schools in many neighborhoods are also better - think Garrison and Seaton in Shaw, Payne in Hill East, some of the schools in NE DC.  Some of it is increased economic diversity in the student body.  But it is also a combination of things like a stable administration and reduced teacher turnover that help to improve a school.  [/quote]

Hardy is great now, but only because parents, in conjunction with a couple of officials at DCPS, went to great lengths to get rid of a principal who DCPS had installed.  The principal who proved to be so awful fit the mold of DCPS's favored profile and had strong connections to one of the leaders in DCPS.  If Hardy had been stuck with him, it would have continued to lose the gains it had made in the decade prior.[/quote]

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