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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]hardy has over the past decade transformed from being a school that umc neighborhood families largely flatout avoided in droves to becoming a school large number of inbound elementary students at all socioeconomic levels opt into attending.  is it still an imperfect urban dcps middle school?  sure.  why wont that happen for hobson/jefferson/eh?[/quote]

Because Wilson is way overcrowded and was a big driver of people going to Hardy.  That’s not the situation in Capitol Hill at all.  [/quote]

Hence back to square one, it's not the middle schools, it's Eastern at the end that most DCUM folks don't want their kids attending.  [/quote]

No, it IS the middle school. [/quote]

I am extremely concerned about sending my kids to S-H if we lose out on the lottery. We're IB (and at our IB ES) so we know quite a few kids there now (mostly 6th graders & a few 7th graders). They almost uniformly report that the academics are OK, but that you need to be a blend in/go with the flow kind of kid or have really thick skin to survive. Multiple kids report that the other kids are "mean" and that teachers hear it and don't push back at all. The 7th grader in the family we're closest to told us that he'd heard that it had gotten much worse post-COVID, so that hopefully things improved soon, but that otherwise he thought one of my kids would be fine (sunny disposition but very chill with just a hint of class clown, upper middle of the pack academically), one of my kids would be fine but miserable (leader type but socially adept enough to turn it off as needed & very thick skinned, near the top of the pack academically but not a true standout) and one of my kids would be absolutely tortured (extremely high acheiving nerdy type and sensitive to criticism, but no trouble making friends in ES). A culture of "mean" kids = bad admin, so I'm concerned.[/quote]

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