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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]wow, just wow.  the level of privilege and IB vs OOB snobbery is just amazing.  Those of you considering Hardy from your IB homes should be kissing the feet of your OOB friends who put their children in Hardy and kept it alive and well for your princelings to enter when you felt it was now good enough..or when you could no longer afford GDS, NCS etc…..

IAlso, I wonder how much traction Mary Cheh might have gotten on a new middle school in the Palisades if all those noble self-sacrificing OOB families hadn't kept Hardy on life support.

Relatedly, has anyone proposed moving Hardy back to the Hamilton EC (how many current OOB students are in proximity to that facility?) and opening a new Ward 3 MS in its stead? Or is that a political nonstarter?[/quote]

Hamilton EC has been granted to a charter, I forget which one.
New MSs have been opened at McKinley Tech, and one scheduled for Brookland in 2015-16
Why would you move "Hardy" and open a new "MS" in Ward 3.  The building in Ward 3 is renovated for the neighborhood, and right sized for the neighborhood.  There need to be more MS options throughout the city. Not a new MS in Ward 3.

[/quote]Yes, the first pp seems not to know that Hardy was moved to Hamilton so that the building on Wisconsin Ave could be renovated.  They had wanted to keep the kids in the building during the renovation and it was decided that that would not be possible to do safely.

Speaking as an OOB parent whose kid went to the Hamilton location for two years, Hamilton was not particularly near us.  It wasn't in what you could call a neighborhood where kids could walk to the school.  (And I'm guessing that OOB Hardy students still come from all over the District and it's even harder to get to Hamilton on mass transit than Hardy.) It also seems odd to to even wonder how many OOB students currently are in proximity to a facility where Hardy has not been located in years.  Seriously, my kid is in college now.  Hamilton is ancient history.  If you want to get rid of the OOB students, sending them all to Hamilton is a non-starter.   Anyway you didn't seriously mean that, did you?[/quote]

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