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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll be the lone dissenter and say I have no faith in DCPS creating a high school out of nothing and will not be offering my child at Hardy now as a Guinea pig. We have submitted applications far and wide to get our child in a different place.

Also, Hardy sucks this year. The lack of anything other than academic classes and the daily fights among students plus locked bathrooms and locker rooms, we are done if at all possible. [/quote]

Sure, but why do you think JR will be any better?[/quote]

PP said nothing about JR. They said they are “submitting applications far and wide,” which makes clear that that they are considering many options. Can we not make this thread about JR?[/quote]

PP calls themself a “lone dissenter.” What are they dissenting from? Was there a large group of people saying MacArthur would be competitive with Maret? No. The only consensus from which PP could possibly be dissenting is the consensus that MacArthur will be competitive with JR, for some students currently in 7th and 8th grade at Hardy, Deal, and Adams. [/quote]

Come on. “Lone dissenter” from the large majority of posters saying they aren’t hearing about people leaving the feeder pattern because of/are excited about MacArthur. This poster is planning to leave and is submitting applications.[/quote]

People have always gone private (and to Walls) from Hardy. Continuing that pattern isn’t “leaving because of MacArthur.”[/quote]

I am the lone dissenter OP. I always intended to send my children to public school. We’ve been all in since PK4. But our oldest is in the first grade required to go to the new school and given the “experience” at Hardy this year and the idea of a not at all developed new high school that we’d be committing to with no actual knowledge, we are done. I can’t squander the opportunity to get my child somewhere else and I hope it works for next year. I’ve got 3 years (7th, 8th, and 9th) to secure an option other than the new high school, so we applied out for 7th for next year. Hope that works. If not, we’ll try again for 8th.  Not JR, that’s not even a viable option given no spots at Deal or JR for new OOB students.

FWIW, my child again had no PE today because the locker rooms were locked off limits for whatever reason. That’s absurd. Also, I never said anything about sexual assault. But there are routine fights in the halls and lunch room and they are violent and have involved the AP pulling students apart. Not to even mention the unavailable restrooms. We also won’t talk about the lack of any non-academic classes resulting in extremely long academic blocks every day with no art, music, etc. This is not what we were expecting based off the previous few years of our friends and neighbors having children attend Hardy.[/quote]

Why do they need the lockers to do PE? There’s lots of exercise stuff you can do without needing to change. [/quote]

Yeah, this is weird. My kids don't change for PE at their middle school. [/quote]

No idea. Mine doesn’t change either but has had no PE due to locked locker rooms since school started back up.

Also, a block of ~30 minutes once a week for either orchestra or band that meets either during your lunch or during your advisory period does not a music program make, regardless of much I like the band teacher, who is great. That’s basically less than a club level of participation in music of any kind and was solely dependent on the child deciding to take up an instrument or continue one they already play, it’s not a universal across the board program for all students.

Maybe other people’s kids have stopped mentioning the fights because it’s so routine? My child finds it pretty disturbing that fights happen daily or more and I hear about it at least 3 times a week. There are also locked bathrooms and regular pleas to parents to tell our kids to stop defacing the bathrooms.[/quote]

There's no actual band or orchestra class?  What? Why not?  I visited an MCPS MS and heard the advanced orchestra - they sounded amazing. [/quote]

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