Anonymous wrote:I think Hardy will never be an acceptable choice to Woodley Park residents, in part due to transit. Woodley Park has a Metro, Deal has a metro...Hardy has??? I really think the OOB feeder will end before Woodley gets shut out of Deal
I can just see the lawsuits rolling out...

So much to work with... where to start? With what's acceptable, since that was your choice. If Hardy is acceptable enough for Key and Mann? I'll leave it to you to break down precisely what you believe "acceptable" means, but by any definition it's therefore acceptable to Woodley Park.

As for your transit argument? That is silly on its face. By your logic, Amidon-Bowen ES has a Metro, Deal has a Metro, ergo Amidon-Bowen should feed Deal! Nobody cares that Oyster is about a mile away from the Woodley Park metro. That's immaterial to the fact that it's a couple of miles closer to Hardy than to Deal. It's certainly closer than Eaton, which also needs to feed Hardy.

And what you think doesn't have much bearing on what politically palpable to DCPS. Even with the OOB feeders, one look at the school sizes tells quite a story. Deal needs to drop some feeders, and Shepherd isn't an option. Oyster and Eaton make so much sense that it needs to happen yesterday.

(And no, I don't have a child at Shepherd)

Anonymous wrote:Adams "doesn't want" IB kids? What on earth does that mean? Why do people pretend that school is such a panacea.

It means Adams' administrators and many teachers "want" to raise the percentage of Spanish-dominant students and continually threaten to change Oyster-Adams' status from neighborhood school to magnet.

I think that will happen. It isn't a matter of transportation since they could easily do a Hardy bus ala Deal buses.

I think that Earon and Oyster are pretty much gone from Deal with a bit of a grandfather/sibling provision.

Anonymous wrote:If it's so small, it should be done. They need to make things less complicated.

Oyster no longer feeds to Deal as a school, and the number of kids in-bounds for both schools who choose to attend Deal is hardly significant. But these kids number among Deal's strongest students and would not be well served at either Adams or Hardy.

Adams "doesn't want" IB kids? What on earth does that mean? Why do people pretend that school is such a panacea.

Are there no buses from Woodley to Hardy? Somehow all those OOB kids manage to find their way to Hardy. How do they do it?

Anonymous wrote:Or they could go to...say...Adams?

Adams really doesn't welcome in-boundary kids, and doesn't see itself as there to serve in-boundary kids. Adams doesn't even want us back and would bellyache about how we're edging out Spanish-dominant kids who really deserve to be there.

If it's so small, it should be done. They need to make things less complicated.

Or they could go to...say...Adams?

Not to mention that the number of Oyster kids attending Deal is fairly small, anyway. Hardly the "single easiest solution to Deal's over-crowding, period."

Anonymous wrote:I think Hardy will never be an acceptable choice to Woodley Park residents, in part due to transit. Woodley Park has a Metro, Deal has a metro...Hardy has??? I really think the OOB feeder will end before Woodley gets shut out of Deal
I can just see the lawsuits rolling out...

Plus a lot of the families live on the Kalorama Triangle side of the Oyster boundary, and this isn't a driving neighborhood. Getting to Hardy would be a PIA for our kids. There's no direct bus route to that area from here, and some of us don't even own cars. Metro to Deal is very easy, though.

I think Hardy will never be an acceptable choice to Woodley Park residents, in part due to transit. Woodley Park has a Metro, Deal has a metro...Hardy has??? I really think the OOB feeder will end before Woodley gets shut out of Deal
I can just see the lawsuits rolling out...

Anonymous wrote:Oyster doesn't work for people who move into the area when their kids are 5th or 6th grade

Then they go to Hardy. Just like the 5th & 6th grade IB students do at Eaton and Stoddert.

Oyster doesn't work for people who move into the area when their kids are 5th or 6th grade

We all know that Eaton is closer to Hardy than Deal and that needs to be re-drawn. With that in mind, why on earth is Oyster still attached to Deal? It already has its own private MS with Adams, yes? It must be at least a half mile closer to Hardy than Eaton is (which would be what, about 3 miles from Deal and a mile from Hardy?). Hardy needs the support, Deal is over-crowded, Oyster has it's own MS anyway, this is the single easiest solution to Deal's over-crowding, period.