So, what is wrong with Hardy?

[Anonymous]

There is nothing wrong with Hardy. You might ask what is wrong with rich people? Racism...

[Anonymous]

How many high SES minority families send their kids to Hardy? It's not about racism, it's about test scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uniforms

I assume that this is a joke. The reality is that Hardy uniforms, while a small thing, are a big turn-off to a lot of prospective IB parents who associate public school uniforms with chaotic, urban schools.

except a lot of them then send their kids to private schools where you guessed it some of them have to wear uniforms.

[Anonymous]

Hardy seems to have a lot in common with Ludlow Taylor they are both schools with a high population of out of bounds students, string leadership and have rising test scores. They are also alike in thst their relative sucess of the school in spite of its poverty rates and low ib participation seems to instill a lot of resentment and anger and 100 page quasi rascist threads from the ib parents.

[Anonymous]

pp should have said strong leadership

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many high SES minority families send their kids to Hardy? It's not about racism, it's about test scores.

Which is how they might - in the worst of all possible worlds - end up no better than at a college like Williams, from which a degree may cost about $100K and yet still be 100% useless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hardy seems to have a lot in common with Ludlow Taylor they are both schools with a high population of out of bounds students, string leadership and have rising test scores. They are also alike in thst their relative sucess of the school in spite of its poverty rates and low ib participation seems to instill a lot of resentment and anger and 100 page quasi rascist threads from the ib parents.

Interesting that you term local concern about Hardy's mediocre quality to be "quasi-racist threats." It's Also interesting that no one says that about Deal or Latin, which have large populations of color and where high SES parents are eager to send their kids. Of course, these are much stronger schools than Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uniforms

I assume that this is a joke. The reality is that Hardy uniforms, while a small thing, are a big turn-off to a lot of prospective IB parents who associate public school uniforms with chaotic, urban schools.

except a lot of them then send their kids to private schools where you guessed it some of them have to wear uniforms.

It's a completely different situation. Personally I think school uniforms are outmoded everywhere. But uniforms at a place like St Albans come out of a very different tradition. Urban public school uniforms have more negative association because they were a implemented relatively recently as a gimmick to try to instill order and discipline in tough, ungovernable inner city schools. I would think that Hardy would want to avoid that association.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uniforms

I assume that this is a joke. The reality is that Hardy uniforms, while a small thing, are a big turn-off to a lot of prospective IB parents who associate public school uniforms with chaotic, urban schools.

except a lot of them then send their kids to private schools where you guessed it some of them have to wear uniforms.

It's a completely different situation. Personally I think school uniforms are outmoded everywhere. But uniforms at a place like St Albans come out of a very different tradition. Urban public school uniforms have more negative association because they were a implemented relatively recently as a gimmick to try to instill order and discipline in tough, ungovernable inner city schools. I would think that Hardy would want to avoid that association.

Also, you apply to attend a private school, an in-boundary public school is assigned to you. Public schools have to be more accommodating of individualism.

[Anonymous]

Who wants to send their kids to a stuffy old all-boys school kike Albans anyway. Kids gonna grow up to be misogynists and can't talk to girls like equals. Join a Frat and develop alcohol problems later in life. Pfah.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many high SES minority families send their kids to Hardy? It's not about racism, it's about test scores.

Which is how they might - in the worst of all possible worlds - end up no better than at a college like Williams, from which a degree may cost about $100K and yet still be 100% useless.

"I'd be thrilled if my kid got into Williams" - says Pomona College alum with friends who graduated from Bates, Swarthmore, etc.

BTW the lower your SES and the more difficult your background, especially for sought-after high test score, minorities, the more financial aid you get. Or were you being sarcastic. The worst of all possible worlds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many high SES minority families send their kids to Hardy? It's not about racism, it's about test scores.

Which is how they might - in the worst of all possible worlds - end up no better than at a college like Williams, from which a degree may cost about $100K and yet still be 100% useless.

"I'd be thrilled if my kid got into Williams" - says Pomona College alum with friends who graduated from Bates, Swarthmore, etc.

BTW the lower your SES and the more difficult your background, especially for sought-after high test score, minorities, the more financial aid you get. Or were you being sarcastic. The worst of all possible worlds?

For these people, the more expensive and useless the degree, the better. You can be a stay-at-home artist mom (with a nanny, natch) while daddy works for his daddy's real estate business which is basically a printing press for easy, unearned money. These people are simply not going to send their kids to Hardy; not with THAT riff-raff, girl, please. Whereas a Harvard mom just maybe might. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who wants to send their kids to a stuffy old all-boys school kike Albans anyway. Kids gonna grow up to be misogynists and can't talk to girls like equals. Join a Frat and develop alcohol problems later in life. Pfah.

I will assume hopefully that "kike" in this context is a typo and not intended as a slur.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who wants to send their kids to a stuffy old all-boys school kike Albans anyway. Kids gonna grow up to be misogynists and can't talk to girls like equals. Join a Frat and develop alcohol problems later in life. Pfah.

I will assume hopefully that "kike" in this context is a typo and not intended as a slur.

Yes. DCUM is full of iPhone typos.

[Anonymous]

There's another thread that is 100 pages long and 1500 postings that has a lot of info on what is wrong at Hardy (or not, depending on one's perspective).