Wow-- this thread is 91 pages long! Way more than the number of IB residents at Hardy probably.

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Anonymous wrote:Just saw this on the Mann homepage, at the top:

"Meet Hardy Principal this Friday (1/23)
Parents of 3rd - 5th Graders: This Friday, January 23, we will host a gathering in the new Mann library with Pat Pride, the principal of Hardy Middle School. Joining Principal Pride will be a small cohort of Mann graduates and parents of current Hardy students who will share their experience at Hardy MS. There will be supervision on the field for early morning play to enable parents to attend this 8:00 a.m. gathering."

Great to hear that Mann is actively engaging its parents to consider Hardy.

I heard Patricia Pride didn't show up for this.

I always thought her first name was "Principal."

HA! She goes by Trish. Not sure who thought "Pat" was her name.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just saw this on the Mann homepage, at the top:

"Meet Hardy Principal this Friday (1/23)
Parents of 3rd - 5th Graders: This Friday, January 23, we will host a gathering in the new Mann library with Pat Pride, the principal of Hardy Middle School. Joining Principal Pride will be a small cohort of Mann graduates and parents of current Hardy students who will share their experience at Hardy MS. There will be supervision on the field for early morning play to enable parents to attend this 8:00 a.m. gathering."

Great to hear that Mann is actively engaging its parents to consider Hardy.

I heard Patricia Pride didn't show up for this.

I always thought her first name was "Principal."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just saw this on the Mann homepage, at the top:

"Meet Hardy Principal this Friday (1/23)
Parents of 3rd - 5th Graders: This Friday, January 23, we will host a gathering in the new Mann library with Pat Pride, the principal of Hardy Middle School. Joining Principal Pride will be a small cohort of Mann graduates and parents of current Hardy students who will share their experience at Hardy MS. There will be supervision on the field for early morning play to enable parents to attend this 8:00 a.m. gathering."

Great to hear that Mann is actively engaging its parents to consider Hardy.

I heard Patricia Pride didn't show up for this.

Can anyone confirm? Did anyone go to this session?

Mann Parent here. I asked someone who was at the meeting last week. Patricia Pride was not there.

Since the info session still went on I am assuming this was an unexpected absence?

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Anonymous wrote:To all those OOB parents with an inferiority complex because they live eotp, get over it! It's clear that you recognize wotp is better...at least for schooling your dc. The bar is lower eotp - simple as that. If you want to stop feeling so much internal shame just move wotp and be done with it. Remember that feeling of excitement you got when your kid got into an oob school? Remember that and just be grateful you you have this opportunity wotp.

I'm an IB Hardy parent and I want to distance myself from this poster immediately. She speaks for no one but herself.

Ha ha, this person is hilarious! Speaking as an EotP parent, I just have to laugh at the notion that the previous poster really believes that we feel shame for living there. So deluded! Don't worry, IB Hardy parent, this person is uniquely odd - no worry of me anyway assuming the crazy one speaks for other WotP parents.

The PP is right, though. This entire thread boils down to a bunch of EOTP families defending their access to a WOTP neighborhood middle school. Hardy has turned into a charter school with a neighborhood preference.

So enroll your kid and it won't be one anymore. Literally no one is stopping you. How do you think all those EotP kids originally got in OOB? Because the school was abandoned by the IB families! And that's what's so hilarious now -- that a few IB posters are whining about the big bad EotP families who somehow are standing at the doorway swinging ax handles at them to keep them from enrolling in Hardy.

Sheesh! If you want to blame someone, blame those chickenshit IB families from decades ago who didn't enroll. They're the ones who left the space for other families to attend.

Uh, no.

There are no "IB families from decades ago who didn't enroll."

Hardy has only been at its current location for 18 years, before that it was on Foxhall Road and was a small, "boutique" neighborhood school. Even after the move to Burleith it was still a neighborhood school. What killed it as a neighborhood school was moving to Hamilton Education Campus in Northeast from 2005 to 2008 while it was renovated. At that time anyone who wanted to could go to Deal or Latin (which at that time was located in AU Park), and literally all of the IB Hardy kids went to one of those two rather than commute 40 minutes across the city. In the life of a middle school, three years is a generation. When Hardy moved back, it had been reconstituted as an OOB school, and the principal found he liked it that way. That wasn't really a problem as long as there were seats for everyone at Deal and Latin. Things didn't start heating up at Hardy until a few years later, when very quickly both schools filled up and the focus turned to Hardy.

If anyone is to blame, it's DCPS for creating this mess, and the parents for letting them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just saw this on the Mann homepage, at the top:

"Meet Hardy Principal this Friday (1/23)
Parents of 3rd - 5th Graders: This Friday, January 23, we will host a gathering in the new Mann library with Pat Pride, the principal of Hardy Middle School. Joining Principal Pride will be a small cohort of Mann graduates and parents of current Hardy students who will share their experience at Hardy MS. There will be supervision on the field for early morning play to enable parents to attend this 8:00 a.m. gathering."

Great to hear that Mann is actively engaging its parents to consider Hardy.

I heard Patricia Pride didn't show up for this.

Can anyone confirm? Did anyone go to this session?

Mann Parent here. I asked someone who was at the meeting last week. Patricia Pride was not there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just saw this on the Mann homepage, at the top:

"Meet Hardy Principal this Friday (1/23)
Parents of 3rd - 5th Graders: This Friday, January 23, we will host a gathering in the new Mann library with Pat Pride, the principal of Hardy Middle School. Joining Principal Pride will be a small cohort of Mann graduates and parents of current Hardy students who will share their experience at Hardy MS. There will be supervision on the field for early morning play to enable parents to attend this 8:00 a.m. gathering."

Great to hear that Mann is actively engaging its parents to consider Hardy.

I heard Patricia Pride didn't show up for this.

Can anyone confirm? Did anyone go to this session?

Browse back. A Mann parent said he/she attended the sessions and made comments/considerations about it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just saw this on the Mann homepage, at the top:

"Meet Hardy Principal this Friday (1/23)
Parents of 3rd - 5th Graders: This Friday, January 23, we will host a gathering in the new Mann library with Pat Pride, the principal of Hardy Middle School. Joining Principal Pride will be a small cohort of Mann graduates and parents of current Hardy students who will share their experience at Hardy MS. There will be supervision on the field for early morning play to enable parents to attend this 8:00 a.m. gathering."

Great to hear that Mann is actively engaging its parents to consider Hardy.

I heard Patricia Pride didn't show up for this.

Can anyone confirm? Did anyone go to this session?

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Anonymous wrote:My house was in bounds for Deal forever, and this year some social engineering bureaucrats decided that my kids should go to Hardy. Is it fair that we be forced to sell our home to maintain the same quality of education that we would have had before?

How is redistricting an area away from an overcrowded school "social engineering"??

Because the only plausible explanation for the criteria used to determine which areas would be redistricted away is social engineering.

They had to redistrict. No choice. Taking racial diversity into account when determining which areas to redistrict does not sound like social engineering to me. But whatever, its an in word these days.

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Anonymous wrote:To all those OOB parents with an inferiority complex because they live eotp, get over it! It's clear that you recognize wotp is better...at least for schooling your dc. The bar is lower eotp - simple as that. If you want to stop feeling so much internal shame just move wotp and be done with it. Remember that feeling of excitement you got when your kid got into an oob school? Remember that and just be grateful you you have this opportunity wotp.

I'm an IB Hardy parent and I want to distance myself from this poster immediately. She speaks for no one but herself.

Ha ha, this person is hilarious! Speaking as an EotP parent, I just have to laugh at the notion that the previous poster really believes that we feel shame for living there. So deluded! Don't worry, IB Hardy parent, this person is uniquely odd - no worry of me anyway assuming the crazy one speaks for other WotP parents.

The PP is right, though. This entire thread boils down to a bunch of EOTP families defending their access to a WOTP neighborhood middle school. Hardy has turned into a charter school with a neighborhood preference.

So enroll your kid and it won't be one anymore. Literally no one is stopping you. How do you think all those EotP kids originally got in OOB? Because the school was abandoned by the IB families! And that's what's so hilarious now -- that a few IB posters are whining about the big bad EotP families who somehow are standing at the doorway swinging ax handles at them to keep them from enrolling in Hardy.

Sheesh! If you want to blame someone, blame those chickenshit IB families from decades ago who didn't enroll. They're the ones who left the space for other families to attend.

But don't blame the crack fueled dc government of the time that failed its residents by providing horrible schools! I bet even the pompous pp would have been too chickenshit to enroll the kiddos.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all those OOB parents with an inferiority complex because they live eotp, get over it! It's clear that you recognize wotp is better...at least for schooling your dc. The bar is lower eotp - simple as that. If you want to stop feeling so much internal shame just move wotp and be done with it. Remember that feeling of excitement you got when your kid got into an oob school? Remember that and just be grateful you you have this opportunity wotp.

I'm an IB Hardy parent and I want to distance myself from this poster immediately. She speaks for no one but herself.

Ha ha, this person is hilarious! Speaking as an EotP parent, I just have to laugh at the notion that the previous poster really believes that we feel shame for living there. So deluded! Don't worry, IB Hardy parent, this person is uniquely odd - no worry of me anyway assuming the crazy one speaks for other WotP parents.

The PP is right, though. This entire thread boils down to a bunch of EOTP families defending their access to a WOTP neighborhood middle school. Hardy has turned into a charter school with a neighborhood preference.

So enroll your kid and it won't be one anymore. Literally no one is stopping you. How do you think all those EotP kids originally got in OOB? Because the school was abandoned by the IB families! And that's what's so hilarious now -- that a few IB posters are whining about the big bad EotP families who somehow are standing at the doorway swinging ax handles at them to keep them from enrolling in Hardy.

Sheesh! If you want to blame someone, blame those chickenshit IB families from decades ago who didn't enroll. They're the ones who left the space for other families to attend.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all those OOB parents with an inferiority complex because they live eotp, get over it! It's clear that you recognize wotp is better...at least for schooling your dc. The bar is lower eotp - simple as that. If you want to stop feeling so much internal shame just move wotp and be done with it. Remember that feeling of excitement you got when your kid got into an oob school? Remember that and just be grateful you you have this opportunity wotp.

I'm an IB Hardy parent and I want to distance myself from this poster immediately. She speaks for no one but herself.

Ha ha, this person is hilarious! Speaking as an EotP parent, I just have to laugh at the notion that the previous poster really believes that we feel shame for living there. So deluded! Don't worry, IB Hardy parent, this person is uniquely odd - no worry of me anyway assuming the crazy one speaks for other WotP parents.

The PP is right, though. This entire thread boils down to a bunch of EOTP families defending their access to a WOTP neighborhood middle school. Hardy has turned into a charter school with a neighborhood preference.

Ha, I read the whole thread and thought it was mostly a bunch of trash-talking about Hardy that boiled down to "the uniform are ghetto" and "I want my kids to go to Deal."

Anonymous wrote:Just saw this on the Mann homepage, at the top:

"Meet Hardy Principal this Friday (1/23)
Parents of 3rd - 5th Graders: This Friday, January 23, we will host a gathering in the new Mann library with Pat Pride, the principal of Hardy Middle School. Joining Principal Pride will be a small cohort of Mann graduates and parents of current Hardy students who will share their experience at Hardy MS. There will be supervision on the field for early morning play to enable parents to attend this 8:00 a.m. gathering."

Great to hear that Mann is actively engaging its parents to consider Hardy.

I heard Patricia Pride didn't show up for this.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all those OOB parents with an inferiority complex because they live eotp, get over it! It's clear that you recognize wotp is better...at least for schooling your dc. The bar is lower eotp - simple as that. If you want to stop feeling so much internal shame just move wotp and be done with it. Remember that feeling of excitement you got when your kid got into an oob school? Remember that and just be grateful you you have this opportunity wotp.

I'm an IB Hardy parent and I want to distance myself from this poster immediately. She speaks for no one but herself.

Ha ha, this person is hilarious! Speaking as an EotP parent, I just have to laugh at the notion that the previous poster really believes that we feel shame for living there. So deluded! Don't worry, IB Hardy parent, this person is uniquely odd - no worry of me anyway assuming the crazy one speaks for other WotP parents.

The PP is right, though. This entire thread boils down to a bunch of EOTP families defending their access to a WOTP neighborhood middle school. Hardy has turned into a charter school with a neighborhood preference.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all those OOB parents with an inferiority complex because they live eotp, get over it! It's clear that you recognize wotp is better...at least for schooling your dc. The bar is lower eotp - simple as that. If you want to stop feeling so much internal shame just move wotp and be done with it. Remember that feeling of excitement you got when your kid got into an oob school? Remember that and just be grateful you you have this opportunity wotp.

I'm an IB Hardy parent and I want to distance myself from this poster immediately. She speaks for no one but herself.

Ha ha, this person is hilarious! Speaking as an EotP parent, I just have to laugh at the notion that the previous poster really believes that we feel shame for living there. So deluded! Don't worry, IB Hardy parent, this person is uniquely odd - no worry of me anyway assuming the crazy one speaks for other WotP parents.