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[quote=Anonymous]Hardy parent here.  My DC was part of the gifted program last year, and even so, I was a bit skeptical of the value.
But this year, I think the program has really hit its stride.   There clearly has been an effort to learn some lessons from last year and improve.  The addition of a second gifted and talented teacher has also helped.  Now they have one teacher running the humanities side, and one running the STEM side.  Each can focus more, and there seems to be an exponential improvement in how the program is run.  There are more classes, more opportunities, and they are better integrated with the rest of the classes taken by my child.  And Principal Pride seems to really value the program and have a vision for it.

I think any kind of student can thrive at Hardy.  The high achievers stand out, and get the extra attention they need from the teachers.  But the "in the middle" kids that might be lost at other schools are not lost at Hardy because it is so small.

I know a lot of in-boundary parents worry about kids coming to Hardy from "other parts of the city", but I think our child finds that in general, all the kids in his class at Hardy are warm, supportive, and accepting.  There are a few exceptions of course, but those are the exceptions, not the rule.  There does not appear to be much negative peer pressure at all, and not a lot of the pressure I remember from middle school to fit in at all costs - the kids at Hardy like each other, accept each other's quirks and differences, and work well together.

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