So how many IB are going to really be at Hardy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:@ 1330: I would tend to trust the school's definition of its own uniform policy, specifically that it has "school uniforms" and is "proud to be a UNIFORM school." I can only conclude that Hardy Middle School requires to its students to wear a uniform.

The random crank nut on the message board who chooses to believe the contrary can continue to press accelerate at red lights, consider paying taxes to be only a suggestion, etc...

It's a dress code, not a uniform.

You pick your own clothes, style, lenght. As long as the bottom is khaki and the top is navy or white.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:@ 1330: I would tend to trust the school's definition of its own uniform policy, specifically that it has "school uniforms" and is "proud to be a UNIFORM school." I can only conclude that Hardy Middle School requires to its students to wear a uniform.

The random crank nut on the message board who chooses to believe the contrary can continue to press accelerate at red lights, consider paying taxes to be only a suggestion, etc...

It's a dress code, not a uniform.

You pick your own clothes, style, lenght. As long as the bottom is khaki and the top is navy or white.

If it's such a great idea, why don't they have it at Deal or Pyle middle schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:@ 1330: I would tend to trust the school's definition of its own uniform policy, specifically that it has "school uniforms" and is "proud to be a UNIFORM school." I can only conclude that Hardy Middle School requires to its students to wear a uniform.
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Clearly they need to make changes. To their website.

Looks like the webmaster didn't get the memo: "dress code" is in; "uniform" is out. Got it.

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Anonymous wrote:Hardy already has some honors classes but perhaps what they need to attract significantly more IB students is to create a separate, full-fledged honors program, a dedicated academy within the school. Make it entirely merit-based, test-in, supplemented by transcripts and teacher recommendation and take only the top applicants. Provide extra enrichment, dedicated faculty and advisors for the honors program. Have the honors program start at sixth grade with an additional on-ramp admission opportunity at the beginning of seventh for other high-performing students. Once the honors program is up and running at Hardy, many IB parents would be flocking to get their kids in to a relatively small, elite academic program. And junk the Hardy uniforms.... at a minimum get rid of them for the honors program.

Oh so basically what you want is a private school paid for by DC taxpayers.

We want a great academic school supported by us DC taxpayers. Hardy gets a grade of "F" for effectively serving the needs of its designated community service area. (What else do you call a score of 13, the percentage of IB kids at a pretty-modest sized school?) There's no reason, with the proper focus an emphasis, that Hardy could not surpass Deal as Washington's preeminent public middle school program. But it will never happen so long as stakeholders continue to be invested in the status quo, even if only emotionally, and try to delude themselves and others that a barely 'good enough' school is wonderful.

But what was described above is a private school, not Deal.

No, what was is a dedicated program to attract and challenge the bright and well prepared students while dealing with the reality, as noted by a PP, that Hardy's student body is also characterized by a number of students who arrive at middle school significantly less well prepared and underachieving compared to grade level. It's clear that in its present programmatic configuration Hardy will struggle to attract more kids in the first group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:@ 1330: I would tend to trust the school's definition of its own uniform policy, specifically that it has "school uniforms" and is "proud to be a UNIFORM school." I can only conclude that Hardy Middle School requires to its students to wear a uniform.

The random crank nut on the message board who chooses to believe the contrary can continue to press accelerate at red lights, consider paying taxes to be only a suggestion, etc...

It's a dress code, not a uniform.

You pick your own clothes, style, lenght. As long as the bottom is khaki and the top is navy or white.

If it's such a great idea, why don't they have it at Deal or Pyle middle schools?

PP argued that dress code works for Hardy, which is her/his kid's school. She/he does not seem to have kids at Deal or Pyle.

[Anonymous]

Even if it's interpreted as a "dress code" -- which, according to the school itself, it's not -- it's a horribly authoritarian, restrictive variety of dress code. Kids can't wear different colored pants, including jeans? Where did Hardy's leadership go to school, North Korea?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:@ 1330: I would tend to trust the school's definition of its own uniform policy, specifically that it has "school uniforms" and is "proud to be a UNIFORM school." I can only conclude that Hardy Middle School requires to its students to wear a uniform.

The random crank nut on the message board who chooses to believe the contrary can continue to press accelerate at red lights, consider paying taxes to be only a suggestion, etc...

It's a dress code, not a uniform.

You pick your own clothes, style, lenght. As long as the bottom is khaki and the top is navy or white.

If it's such a great idea, why don't they have it at Deal or Pyle middle schools?

PP argued that dress code works for Hardy, which is her/his kid's school. She/he does not seem to have kids at Deal or Pyle.

The latter are significantly higher performing middle schools and the public comps that IB parents WOTP would tend to measure against.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:@ 1330: I would tend to trust the school's definition of its own uniform policy, specifically that it has "school uniforms" and is "proud to be a UNIFORM school." I can only conclude that Hardy Middle School requires to its students to wear a uniform.

The random crank nut on the message board who chooses to believe the contrary can continue to press accelerate at red lights, consider paying taxes to be only a suggestion, etc...

It's a dress code, not a uniform.

You pick your own clothes, style, lenght. As long as the bottom is khaki and the top is navy or white.

If it's such a great idea, why don't they have it at Deal or Pyle middle schools?

PP argued that dress code works for Hardy, which is her/his kid's school. She/he does not seem to have kids at Deal or Pyle.

The latter are significantly higher performing middle schools and the public comps that IB parents WOTP would tend to measure against.

Parents make school decisions based on school dress codes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even if it's interpreted as a "dress code" -- which, according to the school itself, it's not -- it's a horribly authoritarian, restrictive variety of dress code. Kids can't wear different colored pants, including jeans? Where did Hardy's leadership go to school, North Korea?

Inorite? first they make kids not wear jeans, next thing they will have them listening in for parental signs of disloyalty, and will send you off to detention camps. I mean what do you think is planned for RFK after the new soccer arena is done?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:@ 1330: I would tend to trust the school's definition of its own uniform policy, specifically that it has "school uniforms" and is "proud to be a UNIFORM school." I can only conclude that Hardy Middle School requires to its students to wear a uniform.

The random crank nut on the message board who chooses to believe the contrary can continue to press accelerate at red lights, consider paying taxes to be only a suggestion, etc...

It's a dress code, not a uniform.

You pick your own clothes, style, lenght. As long as the bottom is khaki and the top is navy or white.

If it's such a great idea, why don't they have it at Deal or Pyle middle schools?

PP argued that dress code works for Hardy, which is her/his kid's school. She/he does not seem to have kids at Deal or Pyle.

The latter are significantly higher performing middle schools and the public comps that IB parents WOTP would tend to measure against.

Have the families at feeder schools raised this as a concern?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even if it's interpreted as a "dress code" -- which, according to the school itself, it's not -- it's a horribly authoritarian, restrictive variety of dress code. Kids can't wear different colored pants, including jeans? Where did Hardy's leadership go to school, North Korea?

We have friends with kids at a private school. They have uniforms. They can't wear jeans. No one at that school has the slightest connection to North Korea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:@ 1330: I would tend to trust the school's definition of its own uniform policy, specifically that it has "school uniforms" and is "proud to be a UNIFORM school." I can only conclude that Hardy Middle School requires to its students to wear a uniform.

The random crank nut on the message board who chooses to believe the contrary can continue to press accelerate at red lights, consider paying taxes to be only a suggestion, etc...

It's a dress code, not a uniform.

You pick your own clothes, style, lenght. As long as the bottom is khaki and the top is navy or white.

If it's such a great idea, why don't they have it at Deal or Pyle middle schools?

PP argued that dress code works for Hardy, which is her/his kid's school. She/he does not seem to have kids at Deal or Pyle.

The latter are significantly higher performing middle schools and the public comps that IB parents WOTP would tend to measure against.

Have the families at feeder schools raised this as a concern?

Yes, it's arisen at Eaton.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Even if it's interpreted as a "dress code" -- which, according to the school itself, it's not -- it's a horribly authoritarian, restrictive variety of dress code. Kids can't wear different colored pants, including jeans? Where did Hardy's leadership go to school, North Korea?

Inorite? first they make kids not wear jeans, next thing they will have them listening in for parental signs of disloyalty, and will send you off to detention camps. I mean what do you think is planned for RFK after the new soccer arena is done?

Nothing that harsh. Violators will have to serve detention with the militant English teacher who lead the revolt against Michelle Rhee's rheeforms at Hardy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if it's interpreted as a "dress code" -- which, according to the school itself, it's not -- it's a horribly authoritarian, restrictive variety of dress code. Kids can't wear different colored pants, including jeans? Where did Hardy's leadership go to school, North Korea?

Inorite? first they make kids not wear jeans, next thing they will have them listening in for parental signs of disloyalty, and will send you off to detention camps. I mean what do you think is planned for RFK after the new soccer arena is done?

Nothing that harsh. Violators will have to serve detention with the militant English teacher who lead the revolt against Michelle Rhee's rheeforms at Hardy!

Maybe that would be worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if it's interpreted as a "dress code" -- which, according to the school itself, it's not -- it's a horribly authoritarian, restrictive variety of dress code. Kids can't wear different colored pants, including jeans? Where did Hardy's leadership go to school, North Korea?

We have friends with kids at a private school. They have uniforms. They can't wear jeans. No one at that school has the slightest connection to North Korea.

Right, those elitist private schools have UNIFORMS. Of course, a school with a uniform policy would not have a jeans-only uniform; it wouldn't make sense. But, one of the prior posters here seems to believe that Hardy does not have a uniform policy, but a dress code policy. If it's merely a dress code policy, then why not allow the kids to wear jeans, for cryin' out loud? It's not like there's a UNIFORM or something militaristic like that. Sure, draw the line at flip-flops and T-shirts, I suppose, but if a school's going to have a dress code, let's not treat them like it's a prison with a head warden smacking around a riding crop in their faces all the time.