Reply to Eaton Thrown Under the Bus

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Eaton Thrown Under the Bus"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eaton parent here:  If Principal Pride can improve Hardy in the ways she is proposing and STAYS AT HARDY, I think that prospective Hardy students and families may be pleasantly surprised.  I would much rather send my child to a smaller MS than Deal anyway.  All of this being said, I am far more concerned with the uncertainty of what high school my child may go to despite living just over a mile from Wilson.[/quote]

I have a child at Eaton and Deal.  I like everyone would prefer to keep the current option of being able to choose between the two, but I am not going to picket for keeping Deal.  Deal is getting too large, I have seen problems over the last two years in many respect with how it can do small things, serve lunch, provide access to computers and libraries.  But then I have never been someone who takes every issue as a reason to move to the burbs. [/quote]

This is VERY well put. Reasonable parents like you will help make these changes viable, for example under the B plan. I really think once the IB parents get involved, Hardy will be fantastic. Eaton itself and Hearst have had dramatic turnarounds recently, I think Hardy will do the same.[/quote]

YES there is no question that the B plan or any plan that even the one that has a the JKLM cluster assigned to both Deal and Hardy will bring Hardy up.  As a Eaton district parent I support that.  But that will NOT happen unless Wilson is guaranteed for Hardy.  People will NOT go to Hardy, and work to make it great, if they aren't guaranteed a Wilson spot.  They will all go private or move out of the District.   As the parent of a sixth grader I can say without total certainty that if we have to do a lottery for high school we're going to Montg. County (or private if we can get in).  No question whatsoever.  And as soon as I know that is a likely scenario my contributions to Deal and work to make it great will cease (I'll be house hunting or working more to make more for private school tuition).  The city-wide HS concept will do nothing but bring DOWN the good middle schools, not to mention Wilson and even the specialized schools by draining people from the District.[/quote]

Last poster near, meant to say WITH total certainty.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics