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Anonymous wrote:My neighborhood was routed out of Wilson's boundary. I hope Hardy keeps enough OOB seats that my kid can get in there someday. Not sure what everyone's so afraid of--folks that have enough academic ambitions for their kids to enroll in the lottery and get kids over to Hardy each day are by and large going to be just fine. My kid has two parents (with three graduate degrees between them) at home, plenty of books and extracurriculars, and decent behavior. Just because we can't afford to live in upper NW doesn't mean your kid will be damaged by associating with us. Why should DCPS maintain a giant building for the 50 in-bounds kids attending Hardy? Be careful what you wish for--with fewer OOB kids, it would be easy for DCPS to decide the school is underenrolled, send the couple dozen IB kids to Francis-Stevens instead, and poof! You've got a Cardozo feed.

You're so rational, pp! My kid was a similar OOB student and it feels so odd to have some posters imply that a large OOB population is a threat to their children's education!

The reality, PPs, is that not all OOB kids are as prepared and have as much support at home as your kids.

But most of the Hardy OOB students are prepared and do well. So where's the beef?

As has been demonstrated on a different thread, if you are satisfied with your kid scoring proficient on the DCCAS, there's no beef,

First, there is no more DCCAS. Second, my kid won't score sufficient. My kid is advanced and as shown on other threads, many high SES kids score advanced on testing. Being around brown kids is not going to make my advanced kid perform worse. In fact, he may have better experience than his future school (Deal) being that Hardy is smaller.

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Anonymous wrote:My neighborhood was routed out of Wilson's boundary. I hope Hardy keeps enough OOB seats that my kid can get in there someday. Not sure what everyone's so afraid of--folks that have enough academic ambitions for their kids to enroll in the lottery and get kids over to Hardy each day are by and large going to be just fine. My kid has two parents (with three graduate degrees between them) at home, plenty of books and extracurriculars, and decent behavior. Just because we can't afford to live in upper NW doesn't mean your kid will be damaged by associating with us. Why should DCPS maintain a giant building for the 50 in-bounds kids attending Hardy? Be careful what you wish for--with fewer OOB kids, it would be easy for DCPS to decide the school is underenrolled, send the couple dozen IB kids to Francis-Stevens instead, and poof! You've got a Cardozo feed.

You're so rational, pp! My kid was a similar OOB student and it feels so odd to have some posters imply that a large OOB population is a threat to their children's education!

The reality, PPs, is that not all OOB kids are as prepared and have as much support at home as your kids.

But most of the Hardy OOB students are prepared and do well. So where's the beef?

As has been demonstrated on a different thread, if you are satisfied with your kid scoring proficient on the DCCAS, there's no beef,

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Anonymous wrote:My neighborhood was routed out of Wilson's boundary. I hope Hardy keeps enough OOB seats that my kid can get in there someday. Not sure what everyone's so afraid of--folks that have enough academic ambitions for their kids to enroll in the lottery and get kids over to Hardy each day are by and large going to be just fine. My kid has two parents (with three graduate degrees between them) at home, plenty of books and extracurriculars, and decent behavior. Just because we can't afford to live in upper NW doesn't mean your kid will be damaged by associating with us. Why should DCPS maintain a giant building for the 50 in-bounds kids attending Hardy? Be careful what you wish for--with fewer OOB kids, it would be easy for DCPS to decide the school is underenrolled, send the couple dozen IB kids to Francis-Stevens instead, and poof! You've got a Cardozo feed.

You're so rational, pp! My kid was a similar OOB student and it feels so odd to have some posters imply that a large OOB population is a threat to their children's education!

The reality, PPs, is that not all OOB kids are as prepared and have as much support at home as your kids.

But most of the Hardy OOB students are prepared and do well. So where's the beef?

I'm the 17:06 PP and personally I'm not worried about OOB kids coming to my in-bound middle school. If their parents enter the lottery and get them to school that's fine with me. My zoned school has 3 times the IB population of Hardy but if it had less, that would be fine with me. My main reasons I'd want to send a kid to Hardy are because it's bigger, so more extracurriculars and courses, and because it feeds Wilson.

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Anonymous wrote:My neighborhood was routed out of Wilson's boundary. I hope Hardy keeps enough OOB seats that my kid can get in there someday. Not sure what everyone's so afraid of--folks that have enough academic ambitions for their kids to enroll in the lottery and get kids over to Hardy each day are by and large going to be just fine. My kid has two parents (with three graduate degrees between them) at home, plenty of books and extracurriculars, and decent behavior. Just because we can't afford to live in upper NW doesn't mean your kid will be damaged by associating with us. Why should DCPS maintain a giant building for the 50 in-bounds kids attending Hardy? Be careful what you wish for--with fewer OOB kids, it would be easy for DCPS to decide the school is underenrolled, send the couple dozen IB kids to Francis-Stevens instead, and poof! You've got a Cardozo feed.

You're so rational, pp! My kid was a similar OOB student and it feels so odd to have some posters imply that a large OOB population is a threat to their children's education!

LOL -- it's all relative, isn't it. On Capitol Hill, parents don't want OOB kids from Anacostia flooding their schools. What's to say those kids aren't also coming from good families?

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Anonymous wrote:My neighborhood was routed out of Wilson's boundary. I hope Hardy keeps enough OOB seats that my kid can get in there someday. Not sure what everyone's so afraid of--folks that have enough academic ambitions for their kids to enroll in the lottery and get kids over to Hardy each day are by and large going to be just fine. My kid has two parents (with three graduate degrees between them) at home, plenty of books and extracurriculars, and decent behavior. Just because we can't afford to live in upper NW doesn't mean your kid will be damaged by associating with us. Why should DCPS maintain a giant building for the 50 in-bounds kids attending Hardy? Be careful what you wish for--with fewer OOB kids, it would be easy for DCPS to decide the school is underenrolled, send the couple dozen IB kids to Francis-Stevens instead, and poof! You've got a Cardozo feed.

You're so rational, pp! My kid was a similar OOB student and it feels so odd to have some posters imply that a large OOB population is a threat to their children's education!

The reality, PPs, is that not all OOB kids are as prepared and have as much support at home as your kids.

Anonymous wrote:My neighborhood was routed out of Wilson's boundary. I hope Hardy keeps enough OOB seats that my kid can get in there someday. Not sure what everyone's so afraid of--folks that have enough academic ambitions for their kids to enroll in the lottery and get kids over to Hardy each day are by and large going to be just fine. My kid has two parents (with three graduate degrees between them) at home, plenty of books and extracurriculars, and decent behavior. Just because we can't afford to live in upper NW doesn't mean your kid will be damaged by associating with us. Why should DCPS maintain a giant building for the 50 in-bounds kids attending Hardy? Be careful what you wish for--with fewer OOB kids, it would be easy for DCPS to decide the school is underenrolled, send the couple dozen IB kids to Francis-Stevens instead, and poof! You've got a Cardozo feed.

You're so rational, pp! My kid was a similar OOB student and it feels so odd to have some posters imply that a large OOB population is a threat to their children's education!

My neighborhood was routed out of Wilson's boundary. I hope Hardy keeps enough OOB seats that my kid can get in there someday. Not sure what everyone's so afraid of--folks that have enough academic ambitions for their kids to enroll in the lottery and get kids over to Hardy each day are by and large going to be just fine. My kid has two parents (with three graduate degrees between them) at home, plenty of books and extracurriculars, and decent behavior. Just because we can't afford to live in upper NW doesn't mean your kid will be damaged by associating with us. Why should DCPS maintain a giant building for the 50 in-bounds kids attending Hardy? Be careful what you wish for--with fewer OOB kids, it would be easy for DCPS to decide the school is underenrolled, send the couple dozen IB kids to Francis-Stevens instead, and poof! You've got a Cardozo feed.

the DME materials on Hardy suggest that the school could serve a much larger number of students. In SY13-14 they utilized 57% of the building. My hope is that they're willingness to take more OOB doesn't mean they won't also have more IB enrolling!

http://www.dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/COMMUNITY/Final%20proposal%20and%20boundaries%202014/Hardy.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:I really think that between Key, Mann, Hyde, Stoddert (and maybe Eaton?) we can expect many more children enrolling from feeders so I'm bummed so many oob spots were awarded in the initial lottery. Not because I don't want oob, but because I don't want huge classes.

Eaton families are really enthusiastic about Hardy. NOT!

Were any Eaton families able to lottery in Hearst for the Deal feed? I know some were trying this route, but the proximity preference is so specific it can be hard to meet it.

We tried for PK but got one of the last waitlist numbers. It appears only 5 OOB and 2 proximity were offered spots, so not really much of a chance to get in. We don't have proximity even though our house is closer to Hearst. We did have it under the old system. The double blow of losing the Deal feed from Eaton and losing our proximity preference to another route to Deal was pretty harsh.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if any Eaton families are going to Hardy?

Not by choice.....

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if any Eaton families are going to Hardy?

The ones with choices -- a berth in a good charter, independent IB rights to Deal, the ability to afford private -- will not.

Does anyone know if any Eaton families are going to Hardy?

This is false. We don't need to spend time dismissing this claim, again, do we? jesus Christ, it's like Groundhog Day around here.

It was never anticipated that Hardy would be a solely IB school. Even just after completion, Rhee and others stated that even if all IB kids were to attend there would still be ample space for OOB. The feeder school population, while growing, is still not huge like Janney or Lafayette.