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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don't they make Hardy a test in school? Is that a dumb/ naive question??[/quote]

There are people who feel it is just fine the way it is.[/quote]

They even love the uniforms, which are so urban 1980s.[/quote]

Except there is supposedly a contingent of Hardy IB students who head to Latin ... where they wear virtually the same uniform in a different color.[/quote]

For IB parents, the Hardy uniforms connote the 80s/90s "tough love" school reform era, in which uniform requirements were a gimmick used in n attempt to instill discipline in otherwise ungovernable urban public schools.  They wonder why Hardy believes that the uniforms are still necessary.   As a result, the Hardy uniforms are a turn off for Ward 3 parents (and their kids).

The Latin uniforms have a slightly different history, because the founder was consciously modeling it on Boston Latin and other private schools where uniforms were traditional.  St. Albans has uniforms, too, but no one is going to confuse it with Hardy.  [/quote]

It's the same uniform with a different color.  You can spin it all you want, but the bottom line is that it is the same uniform.  Also, please cite your references that Hardy was attempting to promote "tough love".  For all you know, newcomer, Hardy was modeling the same principle as Latin.  [/quote]

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