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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an EOTP parent of a soon-to-be middle schooler with ZERO good middle school options, it's depressing to see how entitled the WOTP parents are about their rights to attend a particular school and their rights to keep interlopers from undesirable neighborhoods out.  Get the F out of our school and go to a substandard education campus because we deserve it more than you... so selfish.  [/quote]

As a WOTP parent I am sick of EOTP people demanding that my kids schelp across the city instead of attend the school down the street so that you can access what WOTP parents have built, instead of building it yourself. [/quote]

:roll:  Janney has been a great school for years. I knew people who went there in the 70s. You, my dear, didn't build sh*t.[/quote]

Not a jklmm parent, but wake up. Those schools are good bc of contributed and concerted parental involvement. They are not perfect, but the point is if you don't live in a boundary zone, why be so demanding you should get into a school? [/quote]

Then why the resistance to go to Hardy if it's the parents that make a good school?[/quote]

The resistance to Hardy, in-boundary, has everything to do with test scores and academic proficiency.  Granted, it's a matter of perspective (generally, high-SES vs. low-to-moderate SES perspective), but take a look:

http://www.myschooldc.org/schools/33/

Those test scores, frankly, look very bad if you're a parent coming from a high-academically achieving school.  You're used to a school with at minimum scores in the low '80s.  Therefore, based on your experience and expectations, you really don't want your kid to go to Hardy.  Conversely, if you are (again, generally) coming from a mid-to-low-SES level area, EOTP, then scores in the low-to-mid 60's at Hardy look excellent based on most of the alternatives in DC (look again at schools' proficiency scores overall in DC -- they really suck, almost across the board, compared to Hardy).  Again, it's a matter of perspective.  Race has little to do with it -- just look at the race percentages at Deal, where there are only 42% white kids (look again at the data provided by the link, above).  White parents are killing themselves to go to Deal, a school where the white population is the MINORITY.  Respectfully, to those of you who think the conflict over boundaries is about race:  re-think and look again for the root causes of the conflict.  The issue is QUALITY education.  That's what every caring parent wants for his/her child, regardless of where they come from.

So, even though parents in-boundary for Hardy would likely transform the scores overnight if they all decided to send their kids there, those parent's don't want to take the risk of the other parents in their ship not following suit.  They don't want to take the risk their kids going to, from their perspective, a low-performing school.  In my opinion, it's silly for parents in-boundary NOT to send their kids to Hardy.  It's already a decent school by DCPS standards -- they're just being scaredy-cats by not taking the plunge.  Raise the high-SES percentages at Hardy and it would become almost like Deal, overnight.
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