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[quote=Anonymous] [/quote]I am not sure precisely what these parents are talking about either.[/b]  But we asked them directly rather than listening to them volunteer about their experiences at Hardy.  All started this year.  All said they felt the school was too focused on discipline and not on education.  It may be the first few weeks or it may be what we have all heard about the difference between EOTP and WOTP ES's sometimes - that at Mann you would almost NEVER hear a member of the school staff (teacher, principal, security guard) raise their voice at a child while last year there was an EOTP parent complaining (or maybe it was two years ago) about teachers screaming at kids.... at a DCPS not a charter.

All I know is these three families were sold on Hardy by Ms. Pride (the Hardy principal) and perhaps also Ms. Whisnant (and I hope they take the time to go back and tell her how they feel, because only she can judge whether they are outliers and I do believe she will always do right by Mann kids - although why she does not push Latin and BASIS for those very few for whom one school would be a paradise (and probably the other a disaster), I do not know.  Anyway, these families were convinced and therefore did not apply to private schools and only one applied to Latin/Basis.  All wanted out as of two weeks ago, and were tremendously shocked by what they expected versus what they have experienced.

I just felt in the interests of honesty (and because I do have a much younger child who is not yet at Mann and by the time this child gets to Hardy I am sure there will be nothing to worry about) that people should hear a different perspective.  I was shocked based on all I had read on this board.  Because based on all my reading here, if I had a 4th grader, I would seriously be thinking about Hardy.  Until these recent conversations with families whose kids we know and whose judgement we trust.  So I thought in the interests of honesty it was the right thing to do to post their feelings as well.............  FWIW.............[quote]

Can you shed more light on this post PP?  Surely no one would go to Hardy expecting it to be a grown-up version of their neighborhood middle school, not yet anyway, would they??  The school is still rough around the edges based on the DCPS numbers.  And it is clearly not yet a neighborhood school, even if some of our neighborhood kids (i.e., Ward 2/3, etc.) go there.[/quote]

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