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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting stats, pp.  Thanks for posting.  Yeah, you should definitely not send your kids there.

But how about not sending your kids there and not whining about it? I have no problem with people who feel that Hardy is not the right environment for their child and want to send the kid elsewhere.  But the whining that goes on on this thread and practically every other thread about Hardy? So tiresome.[/quote]

You're right.  I guess I am whining about the fact that my IB middle school is 87% OOB and 55% FARMs.  What I'd like is for DCPS to take decisive action to fix this situation.

Either Hardy is a neighborhood school or it is a city-wide school.

If it's a neighborhood school, DCPS should cap OOB enrollment at something like 25% so that IB families have a reasonable chance of turning the school around within a couple of years.

If it's a city-wide school, DCPS should eliminate the neighborhood preference. At least those of us zoned for Hardy could then lobby to start a real neighborhood school in a new building somewhere else.
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Basically separating Hardy back into its former Gordon and Hardy components.  At one point, "old" Hardy was a popular choice among IB students.  That changed when it was forcibly merged into Gordon (and Gordon kept the Hardy name)[/quote]

Where are you getting you information, PP?

From the history of Hardy web page:

[quote]The original Hardy Elementary School, named for early 20th-century educator Rose Hardy, opened on Foxhall Road 80 years ago. In 1974, it was converted to a middle school. In 1996, Superintendent Franklin Smith closed the Foxhall building and moved the school to its current location at 1819 35th St. NW in Georgetown, the former Carlos Rosario Adult Education Center.  [b]Before 1980, when the council renamed it Carlos Rosario, the facility had been known as Gordon Junior High[/b]. Smith closed all adult education programs in 1996, clearing the way for Hardy to move into the building.[/quote]

[url]http://hardyms.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=242744&type=d[/url]

From the history of Carlos Rosario:

[quote]The Carlos Rosario
International Public
Charter School opened in
1998, becoming the first
adult public charter school
in the nation. The school
has its roots in the
Program of English Instruction for Latin Americans (PEILA) established in
1970 by Carlos Manuel Rosario. [b]In 1978, PEILA relocated to the Gordon
building in Georgetown[/b], merged with the Americanization Program and
was renamed the Gordon Center. In 1992, the school was renamed the
Carlos Rosario Adult Education Center. In 1996, the Carlos Rosario Adult
Education Center was forced to close. Two years later, after the budget
crisis was resolved, the school reopened as the Carlos Rosario International
Public Charter School. In 2000, the school expanded to six locations to
accommodate high demand. In 2001, school administrators signed a longterm
lease agreement with the DC government to renovate and occupy the
former Wilson Teachers College building at 1100 Harvard Street NW. The
grand opening and dedication occurred in 2004.[/quote]

[url]http://www.wdchumanities.org/docs/2011DCCHP/DCSchoolsHistandHeritage2011.pdf[/url]

It looks like Gordon ceased to function as a junior high almost 20 years before Hardy moved into the old Gordon building. How was Hardy "forcibly merged into Gordon"?
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