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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So.....this uniform business is all about parents' concerns that THEY will be judged by THEIR peers for sending their child to a "ghetto school".  Way to parent. Three cheers for self-involved, shallow and vapid. [/quote]

I think it has more do to do with concern that Hardy has felt the need to embrace aspects of a tough zero tolerance culture that is more characteristic of turn-around measures employed at chaotic failing urban schools.[/quote]

Interesting.  Cause for years on this board the complaint has been that Hardy has not been cracking down enough on discipline issues and that it is overly tolerant of misbehavior.

For too many on this board, poor old Hardy just can't win....[/quote]

For too many on this board and Ward 3, Hardy is winning and they are disturbed by it, for various reasons. List include proponents of a Ward 3 charter school , private school constituency (incl. administrators and parents), misinformed parents who have never stepped into the school, segregationists.

I am a parent whose 7th grader is attending a private school just blocks from Hardy. I am very familiar with the anti-Hardy litany. And I am also familiar with the facts that the anti-Hardy arguments are now starting to crack. And the truth is that if a wave of just, let's say, 30 additional families from feeder schools adhered to Hardy next year (which would make a definitive turnaround, following this year IB and feeders school numbers), the Ward 3 middle school landscape and perspectives would look very different. And adverse to the proponents of the charterization or privatization of schools in the District.

We did not feel sure about Hardy 2 years ago (eldest son was in 5th grade at an IB feeder school) . Ms Pride has just been appointed when she received us (literally 3 months before), she did not look solid and consolidated yet, had still to build a vision for the school and programming together with DCPS and the feeder school PTO. We did not feel taking the risk for our son.

We will definitely reassess the situation in one year for our second son (currently in 4th grade). Two families in my block have 6th graders at Hardy. Families and kids look very happy with the school. One of the parents shared with me a few remarks on areas where the school could still do better, however the list I have for our private school is definitely longer that theirs for Hardy!!

And by the way, they gave me the NUMBERS for 6th grade, which are pretty much consistent with what I just finished reading in this post: 43 kids from feeder schools, 26 IB students, plus 7 kids from Brent elementary in Capitol Hill which is a very good school. The numbers were passed to them from the Principal. [/quote]

I bet that the "segregationist" private schools administrators at St Alban's, Sidwell Friends, etc are just panicked over Hardy's rise.[/quote]

They claim, and I believe them, they receive applications in numbers which are multiples of their available slots ... Still they ability to "cherry-pick"  the best students will be diminished. The most affected schools will be the mid-tier schools: British, Holy Trinity, Field School...  Plus the charters (Basis) and the proposed Ward 3 middle school .

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Man, you must have stumbled into some of Marion Barry's private crack stash.  This is nonsensical.[/quote]

Why nonsensical?  Don't you know that, just to make an example, St Ann Academy (a private elementary/middle school in Tenleytown) is closing this year due to the drop in enrollment (see article below, "... enrollment has dropped from 250 students during the 90s to just 139 in 2014...")  , and the drop in applications over time has paralleled the rise in neighborhood enrollment in Janney/Deal as their academic performance improved?

Read the articles. You are obviously not from Ward 3.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/northwest-washingtons-st-anns-academy-to-close/2014/03/07/ed638560-a647-11e3-9cff-b1406de784f0_story.html

http://www.currentnewspapers.com/admin/uploadfiles/NW%2003-12-2014.pdf

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