Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 14:46     Subject: Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
Anonymous wrote:Schools becoming naturally more IB due to improved academics is one thing. Schools becoming more IB by artificial means sounds suspicious.

What is Pride changing that is making IB parent choose the school other than randomly limiting OOB numbers?

Bad plan people. Really bad plan. Cuts funding in the short term in hopes for gains in the long term. Hopefully you can get to the long term.


You should really go to an open house and voice your concerns there, in person, to the principal.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 14:44     Subject: Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
There's an awful lot of aspersions being cast at principal Pride based on rumors.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 14:36     Subject: Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
Exactly, people who are angry or upset because they perceive a plot, should make the effort to attend an open house before passing such judgement.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 14:29     Subject: Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
Anonymous wrote:Schools becoming naturally more IB due to improved academics is one thing. Schools becoming more IB by artificial means sounds suspicious.

What is Pride changing that is making IB parent choose the school other than randomly limiting OOB numbers?

Bad plan people. Really bad plan. Cuts funding in the short term in hopes for gains in the long term. Hopefully you can get to the long term.



I believe Hardy has a few more open houses scheduled for next weeks . If your question is genuine, then go attend and will find your answers. One quick answer to star with (but there's much more) is " managerial stability", after years of reshuffling in school principals.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 14:22     Subject: Re:Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If she really is limiting OOB spots when there some available, that is sickening. If IB families think that is the only way to make Hardy another Deal that is more sickening.


Why is it sickening? Why don't the OOB families work to improve their IB schools the way Hardy's IB families have? Hardy is a neighborhood school. If you want your kids to go there, rent within the boundary.

The OOB process has created a city-wide sense of entitlement to neighborhood schools WOTP. If you don't believe in neighborhood schools, apply to one of the many city-wide charter schools.


Considering Hardy is 11% IB it seems like the OOB kids/parents are leading the school to improve.

Good one! The parents whose IB kids are yet to enter Hardy are the ones "leading the school to improve".


Let me help you: there a significantly large number IB parents with kids currently attending Hardy, who have younger kids in the pipeline for the next year or the following years, and who are aware of the areas for improvement of the school, and who are committed to making the current positive school experience an even better one for their next kid.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 14:19     Subject: Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
Schools becoming naturally more IB due to improved academics is one thing. Schools becoming more IB by artificial means sounds suspicious.

What is Pride changing that is making IB parent choose the school other than randomly limiting OOB numbers?

Bad plan people. Really bad plan. Cuts funding in the short term in hopes for gains in the long term. Hopefully you can get to the long term.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 14:10     Subject: Re:Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If she really is limiting OOB spots when there some available, that is sickening. If IB families think that is the only way to make Hardy another Deal that is more sickening.


Why is it sickening? Why don't the OOB families work to improve their IB schools the way Hardy's IB families have? Hardy is a neighborhood school. If you want your kids to go there, rent within the boundary.

The OOB process has created a city-wide sense of entitlement to neighborhood schools WOTP. If you don't believe in neighborhood schools, apply to one of the many city-wide charter schools.


Considering Hardy is 11% IB it seems like the OOB kids/parents are leading the school to improve.

Good one! The parents whose IB kids are yet to enter Hardy are the ones "leading the school to improve".
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 14:09     Subject: Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Isn't Pride looking to limit the 6th grade to just IB families and thinks she has Kaya's blessing? Rumor has it she wants to under enroll, keeping OOB students out to try to appease the IB folks.

Or are those just rumors? The form seems not limited to IB families.


Hardy IB parent here here, sending my kid to Hardy 6th grade next year. I find your comment annoying and very misplaced. None of us -- and I feel confident enough to talk on behalf of the 10+ families sending their kids to Hardy from our feeder ES -- needs to be appeased or feel in any way threatened by the large share of OOB kids. Before Ms Pride's appointment, the School needed some very obvious adjustments in various curricular and managerial aspects, which have nothing to do with the OOBs. We worked through a feeder school cut-cutting Committee and with Ms Pride to fix these shortcomings. We are fully satisfied with the outcome. Thus we are sending more IB kids this year.

We are too smart, and take care of our kid's present and future too much to be appeased by propaganda.


I wish there were more posts like this one. It's not clear how many people are engaged in it, but there's clearly a campaign here on DCUM to appease IB families in just this way and simultaneously make OOB families feel unwelcome. I almost feel guilty about the negative feelings I've developed toward the principal based solely on this campaign, because it seems unfair to judge her based on what some anonymous person says is her plan.

Maybe some of your ire should be directed at the people who repeatedly express their belief that Hardy will only be acceptable once OOB families are gone. Parent involvement in the curriculum and management of the school is so much more encouraging and appealing than all the +1s on limiting enrollment.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 13:48     Subject: Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
P. Pride has been quite open to receiving input and visits from prospective parents (individuals, PTOs, variously grouped parents). What I hear is that she reads email and replies, accept seeing parents, hosts upon request detailed visits for interested prospective kids. The school and her office are open. She's transparent about her plans with current and prospective parents, regardless of IB/OB. I am not surprised that more IB parents trust the school.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 13:44     Subject: Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
There is no drama to be found here people. If you so desperately want to attend Hardy, move IB. They will announce the new boundary changes by Sept (maybe) and then you can know where the new boundaries are.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 13:37     Subject: Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
Wait-- a feeder school what-cutting committee?

Please don't tell me that Pride is involved in this. Emma Brown? You here?
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 13:36     Subject: Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
Anonymous wrote:Rumor has it that around 30 IB have signed the commitment letter. Sounds like her plan is to under enroll. Wonder how that will work out with funding. Does Pride think she is going to attract 7th/8th grade to make up the shortfall?


I think this is all in conjunction with coming boundary changes and is likely smart to do.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 13:35     Subject: Re:Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If she really is limiting OOB spots when there some available, that is sickening. If IB families think that is the only way to make Hardy another Deal that is more sickening.


Why is it sickening? Why don't the OOB families work to improve their IB schools the way Hardy's IB families have? Hardy is a neighborhood school. If you want your kids to go there, rent within the boundary.

The OOB process has created a city-wide sense of entitlement to neighborhood schools WOTP. If you don't believe in neighborhood schools, apply to one of the many city-wide charter schools.


+1


+2
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 13:34     Subject: Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
Rumor has it that around 30 IB have signed the commitment letter. Sounds like her plan is to under enroll. Wonder how that will work out with funding. Does Pride think she is going to attract 7th/8th grade to make up the shortfall?
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 13:34     Subject: Hardy MS - Intent to Enroll form is online
Anonymous wrote:Isn't Pride looking to limit the 6th grade to just IB families and thinks she has Kaya's blessing? Rumor has it she wants to under enroll, keeping OOB students out to try to appease the IB folks.

Or are those just rumors? The form seems not limited to IB families.


Hardy IB parent here here, sending my kid to Hardy 6th grade next year. I find your comment annoying and very misplaced. None of us -- and I feel confident enough to talk on behalf of the 10+ families sending their kids to Hardy from our feeder ES -- needs to be appeased or feel in any way threatened by the large share of OOB kids. Before Ms Pride's appointment, the School needed some very obvious adjustments in various curricular and managerial aspects, which have nothing to do with the OOBs. We worked through a feeder school cut-cutting Committee and with Ms Pride to fix these shortcomings. We are fully satisfied with the outcome. Thus we are sending more IB kids this year.

We are too smart, and take care of our kid's present and future too much to be appeased by propaganda.