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As with your post, the effort toward strong schools in every neighborhood, is just an afterthought.  It should be the main objective.  I don't think anyone would disagree with anything you've said here, but for the majority of the city, there's no Hardy to fight over.  There's no council member, no DCPS administrator, no mayor nor mayoral candidate promising anything even close to it anywhere else.  My neighborhood middle school has been closed with hardly a peep about re-opening--not even a "hey, we'll think about it if we can get X-Number of families to commit"--let alone private home meetings with concerned parents.  And there are maaaany inbound families, with the same hopes and high expectations that you have--but no one who seems to be listening to our needs.

So we have no choice but to consider other schools in other parts of the city.  And that will continue to happen until this city moves beyond lip service and starts making a real effort at strong schools in [i]every [/i]neighborhood.

It's not an issue of housing policies, because the high number of gentrifiers in wards 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 have really made integration a non-issue.  The issue is that the schools in these areas is still pretty much an afterthought.  If DCPS and the education committee are making concentrated efforts and promises in your neighborhood, then they need to make room for people coming from mine.  [/quote]

Until two or three years ago the description you give would have fit Hardy as well. Remember, from 2005 to 2008 it was moved to the Hamilton Education Campus over by Gallaudet. That was an [i]insane [/i]idea -- really tantamount to closing -- but there was "hardly a peep" about that either. "There's no council member, no DCPS administrator, no mayor nor mayoral candidate promising anything even close to it anywhere else. " That would describe Hardy circa 2010. It's not well-remembered, but Mary Cheh was part of the group of councilmembers who voted for a resolution calling on Michelle Rhee to reinstate Principal Pope. I met with her several times in 2010 and 2011, and she had absolutely no interest in doing anything about Hardy (or schools in general). In her mind, DCPS just wasn't a Ward 3 issue.[/quote]

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