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Anonymous wrote:If you're fine sending your kids to Eaton or Stoddert - including having a % of OOB students and some diversity, you'll be ok sending your kids to Hardy. If you want a "public school that's just like a private" as people often say about Mann or Key and then go to private - than you are likely never going to be ok with sending your kid to Hardy (or Deal ... or Wilson). That's fine, but there's no need to also then 'trash' on Hardy. It's at the point of hitting all standards for a high performing public school. Just be a private school family & be fine with that...

-- a public school grad with two Ivy league degrees & HHI & fine sending my kids to public school too

I think this reflects many of the parents of new IB Hardy students (mostly Eaton/Stoddert). Lots of incomes 200-400k, multiple Ivy degrees, don't really see the need to have a nanny ferry the kids to an "elite" private, and in general chose to live in DC instead of Virginia or Maryland. Who do you think are buying those 1M+ Glover Park townhomes? Its not like they couldn't have bought a place in the 'burbs. A bit of diversity never hurt anyone, but nobody wants their kid to be too 'different'. Hardy seems to be winning over these folks. While they can spring 40K for tuition or move to Bethesda, why?

But some of the families that send kids to Key or Mann? Yeah, most Stoddert families would prefer they keep their kids out of Hardy - not because the kids are problematic, but that their parents are (see the racist incident at Key).

I love the “hey there are some educated white people here”. They use it to try attract more because deep down they know that there is a lot of other types there and they wish it was more like them.

I am not sure how woke one is when they bask in how urban there life is when they spend every breath trying to make it more homogeneous like the mcleans and Bethesdas of the world. What exactly are you trying to flip at hardy? Hypocrites

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Anonymous wrote:I considered flipped to be a high achieving & high test score school filled with families who prioritize participation in education so the school doesn’t have to focus on teaching manners and discipline. A place where individuals aren’t suppressed with uniforms in a misguided effort to mask economic disparities all while offering travel and enrichment opportunities based off its network of families and higher education tie-ins.

Hardy barely even rank as flipping let alone flipped to these eyes.

There is literally no public MS school in the city - and probably the surrounding suburbs - that meets that description. Good luck.

Whitman is close but I agree

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It is one person. One tedious person who will, hopefully - for their own sake - be able to move on one day.

Anonymous wrote:I considered flipped to be a high achieving & high test score school filled with families who prioritize participation in education so the school doesn’t have to focus on teaching manners and discipline. A place where individuals aren’t suppressed with uniforms in a misguided effort to mask economic disparities all while offering travel and enrichment opportunities based off its network of families and higher education tie-ins.

Hardy barely even rank as flipping let alone flipped to these eyes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I considered flipped to be a high achieving & high test score school filled with families who prioritize participation in education so the school doesn’t have to focus on teaching manners and discipline. A place where individuals aren’t suppressed with uniforms in a misguided effort to mask economic disparities all while offering travel and enrichment opportunities based off its network of families and higher education tie-ins.

Hardy barely even rank as flipping let alone flipped to these eyes.

There is literally no public MS school in the city - and probably the surrounding suburbs - that meets that description. Good luck.

Whitman is close but I agree

Why do people care so much about school uniforms? Or is it just one person who continually posts? (If the latter, no explanation needed, there are all sorts of people who get riled up about weird things. In grad school, there was a guy who stood outside, rain or shine, around protesting circumcision. Sure the issue may matter, but why scream about it everyday.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I considered flipped to be a high achieving & high test score school filled with families who prioritize participation in education so the school doesn’t have to focus on teaching manners and discipline. A place where individuals aren’t suppressed with uniforms in a misguided effort to mask economic disparities all while offering travel and enrichment opportunities based off its network of families and higher education tie-ins.

Hardy barely even rank as flipping let alone flipped to these eyes.

There is literally no public MS school in the city - and probably the surrounding suburbs - that meets that description. Good luck.

Whitman is close but I agree

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're fine sending your kids to Eaton or Stoddert - including having a % of OOB students and some diversity, you'll be ok sending your kids to Hardy. If you want a "public school that's just like a private" as people often say about Mann or Key and then go to private - than you are likely never going to be ok with sending your kid to Hardy (or Deal ... or Wilson). That's fine, but there's no need to also then 'trash' on Hardy. It's at the point of hitting all standards for a high performing public school. Just be a private school family & be fine with that...

-- a public school grad with two Ivy league degrees & HHI & fine sending my kids to public school too

I think this reflects many of the parents of new IB Hardy students (mostly Eaton/Stoddert). Lots of incomes 200-400k, multiple Ivy degrees, don't really see the need to have a nanny ferry the kids to an "elite" private, and in general chose to live in DC instead of Virginia or Maryland. Who do you think are buying those 1M+ Glover Park townhomes? Its not like they couldn't have bought a place in the 'burbs. A bit of diversity never hurt anyone, but nobody wants their kid to be too 'different'. Hardy seems to be winning over these folks. While they can spring 40K for tuition or move to Bethesda, why?

But some of the families that send kids to Key or Mann? Yeah, most Stoddert families would prefer they keep their kids out of Hardy - not because the kids are problematic, but that their parents are (see the racist incident at Key).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I considered flipped to be a high achieving & high test score school filled with families who prioritize participation in education so the school doesn’t have to focus on teaching manners and discipline. A place where individuals aren’t suppressed with uniforms in a misguided effort to mask economic disparities all while offering travel and enrichment opportunities based off its network of families and higher education tie-ins.

Hardy barely even rank as flipping let alone flipped to these eyes.

There is literally no public MS school in the city - and probably the surrounding suburbs - that meets that description. Good luck.

Anonymous wrote:I considered flipped to be a high achieving & high test score school filled with families who prioritize participation in education so the school doesn’t have to focus on teaching manners and discipline. A place where individuals aren’t suppressed with uniforms in a misguided effort to mask economic disparities all while offering travel and enrichment opportunities based off its network of families and higher education tie-ins.

Hardy barely even rank as flipping let alone flipped to these eyes.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like lots of the Hardy perceptions are out of date here. Most of the 6th and 7th are feeders, with lots of IB students. Not sure why people think that Hardy hasn’t flipped. Maybe since it takes 3 years for the statistics to propagate through?

Or maybe the people differ on what they consider flipped. It certainly doesn’t look like a school on the edge of Georgetown. I think people are trying to will people’s perceptions of DC schools because they spent so much to move where they did private isn’t really an option. For those of us that aren’t house poor, our judgement is less clouded and it isn’t really a viable option.

Anonymous wrote:If you're fine sending your kids to Eaton or Stoddert - including having a % of OOB students and some diversity, you'll be ok sending your kids to Hardy. If you want a "public school that's just like a private" as people often say about Mann or Key and then go to private - than you are likely never going to be ok with sending your kid to Hardy (or Deal ... or Wilson). That's fine, but there's no need to also then 'trash' on Hardy. It's at the point of hitting all standards for a high performing public school. Just be a private school family & be fine with that...

-- a public school grad with two Ivy league degrees & HHI & fine sending my kids to public school too

Anonymous wrote:Seems like lots of the Hardy perceptions are out of date here. Most of the 6th and 7th are feeders, with lots of IB students. Not sure why people think that Hardy hasn’t flipped. Maybe since it takes 3 years for the statistics to propagate through?