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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, what's the next step? Does the fact that the Chancellor announced plans for those two schools in a letter constitute notice to families? When should we hear about grandfathering policies, any formal venue for Hardy families to be heard? Where is the website that will reveal the planning for the physical campuses? How will the boundaries be redrawn to allow for the Foxhall Elementary School. Such typical DCPS process. Make a big, crazy-making announcement without any detail and then just keep mum.

The way the name change at Wilson HS was "announced" was such a thud...a nothingburger. There should have been a big sign unveiling, tshirts and other merch should have been handed out to the students and staff. Instead, I continue to receive emails with "Wilson" all over them but with Reed-Jackson included in the text too. For all the money they spend on crap, couldn't some decent PR firm have been given this contract?  Sigh. [/quote]

Nope. I think us Hardy families just get to accept this or leave. Be happy with the half baked high school! Why would you care about established programs and academics or leadership or anything else?!? What, this would have changed your behavior for the upcoming school year if you’d known before the lottery or private school application deadlines passed? Tough luck! [/quote]

Nonsense. This is a very, very good thing. This HS will be stellar the day it opens. There will be some growing pains, but nothing that will get in the way of a superb academic environment. It will quickly be overcrowded.

I and the other Hardy parents I know are excited about this. [/quote]

Why is it nonsense that I want to send my child to an established high school? I don’t want my child to pave the way as either the first or second class in a brand new high school with growing pains. Or depending on what they do for grandfathering, maybe the first class with half the place still under construction. I’m happy for you that you think it’s great. Not everyone is as excited or interested. That is neither nonsense nor shocking that someone would have a different opinion on this when they’ve thought for the last 8+ years they had their child on track to attend one high school and 2 years out that gets pulled away. [/quote]

Oh come on. This was a tad melodramatic, don't you think: "I think us Hardy families just get to accept this or leave. Be happy with the half baked high school!"

If your precious child is close to HS, they will have their choice of HS. If your child is not close to HS, it is hard for me to defend delaying boundary/feeder changes because you thought you had it all mapped out. [/quote]

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