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[quote=Anonymous]IB family here, with a student at Hardy.  Yes, we felt welcome this year, and our child had a fine year - found a good peer group had good experiences with teachers, and was very happy.  Teachers were not uniformly perfect, but there were some real standouts and no complete disasters.  There were none of the mythical discipline problems that people seem to fear about Hardy.  Come check out the school if you are an IB family - you'll be happy with it.

Our child had experience with the gifted and talented program.  Yes, it is difficult to explain.  Participation is high, but there are different levels of participation - the Type III groups are the most exclusive, with only 5% of students participating.  Our child enjoyed it, and got a lot out of it.

This story in Slate describes the kind of program set up at Hardy:  http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/03/gifted_and_talented_education_cities_try_to_make_programs_more_inclusive.html

This presentation is on the Hardy website:
http://www.hardyms.org/wp-content/uploads/BTSN-SEM.pdf

I agree that Dr. Stefanus is not great at describing the program - like a lot of Principals she has a tendency to fall into education jargon - but there is more info on the Hardy website and if you come in to talk to the teacher who runs the program she is very good at describing it and how it works.

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