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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are a IB family that will be sending our child to Hyde for the first time next year and are looking forward to it.  Would love to walk to the school, but understand the bus ride is just for another year and that is the trade off with getting a lovely new building.  We do know of a good number of folks in Georgetown who left Hyde due to the renovation, but understand that each family has their own set of circumstances.  We plan to be active volunteers and looking forward to getting to know others.

I was surprised to read the Wilson article in the Gtown Current that noted that 84% of incoming Deal students in 2015 were recommended by their teachers for AP classes but zero percent were recommended from Hardy?  I bring this up because we are IB for Hardy and were looking forward to our children attending a local middle school after Hyde.  This does give us pause even if the article noted that Wilson was working on correcting the issue with "Honors for All," but that appeared to be just for AP English and Biology.

Thanks to the OP for starting this Hyde thread; I also couldn't find a lot in searching after the swing space move.[/quote]

DCUM is famous for Hardy hating (there will be a uniform/'urban school' posting soon on this thread now I'm sure).  And it's hard to talk about Hardy without going into racial and gentrification and displacement dynamics.  The school has been changing rapidly - and the current school is different than from 2015.  In 2014/15, the school was around 10% IB and that was around the time when they started offering any honors or SEM classes at the school, and it was then or even more recently that they started having math options on par with Deal.  This year was the first time Hardy did not qualify as a Title I school (where a majority of kids qualified for free and reduced lunch) - and next year, the incoming 6th grade class is expected to be at least 80% from "high performing" feeder schools (high test scores) (and around 50-60% or more IB -- including a change that it will be the first year Eaton will be majority feeding to Hardy, and in the next couple of years, the feeder populations from Stoddert and Eaton will be higher proportionally IB vs. OOB).  Not meaning to make a commentary.  Noting the changes.  [/quote]

Do you think Hardy will eliminate the uniforms when the student population shifts to more IB? [/quote]

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