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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Watta troll!  We've gone from a discussion of IB/residents and IB/feeder to IB/own vs. rent!!  This is some triflin' stuff.  At least it keeps the limbo game going.  Keep the thread alive!

But uniforms.  That gets to the heart of it -- who's with me?![/quote]

I don't know what the uniforms look like at Hardy,  but my oldest really liked her uniform at Washington Latin.  She is now at Basis, and we feel the financial hit and the hassle of having to buy clothes that probably the younger girls will not wear (tweens can get really picky)....

I am hoping to feel quite confident about Hardy by the time my next girl is ready to go in a couple of years, and uniforms would be such a blessing to me as a parent for this child I really don't care she thinks.  Since the alternative would be to go to Basis I don't think I will have a problem. I had a uniform at NCS which for 4th - 6th was awful - it was a striped pastel dress that had pleats at the bottom that allowed any boy who got near enough to do a "bloomer check."  These uniforms allow the girls to wear pants, so I am not sure what the problem is.  Once going to Hardy does not seem like a stigma, the uniforms won't either.  Uniforms to me definitely don't mean anything except that a child goes to a particular school - we see Catholic kids in uniforms at after school church activities all the time.......[/quote]

I'm sure it seems silly to some, but the uniforms are an issue that keeps IB families away from the school.  Uniforms at Hardy vs. No Uniforms at Deal just reinforces that these schools are different and not necessarily in a favorable way for Hardy.  Those who CHOOSE uniforms at private or charters are making an affirmative choice to do so.  Why should some public schools wear uniforms and others not?  If the Chancellor decided that all DCPS kids would wear uniforms, then I would not have a problem with it, but why should my child be told to wear a uniform at Hardy while her friends at Deal don't have to.  [b]If the Hardy community wants to get more IB students -- and I'm not sure they do [/b]-- the principal should reconsider the uniform policy.  [/quote]I assure you.  No one was worrying about what some IB families would think when we voted on uniforms.  Surprisingly enough, we only considered whether it might be a good thing for our kids.....since our kids were actually going to the school.  Is it not okay for me to think about what's best for my kid?  Am I supposed to put the needs of some hypothetical IB family over my own?[/quote]And I should add, I would have been delighted to see more IB families when my child was at Hardy.  The reason I even follow this thread is because I thought my kid had a decent (not perfect, but decent) education at Hardy and I wish others (hey, you IB families, I'm talking to you) could see more of its strengths.

Seriously, a few people on this thread seem to think that Hardy families spend a lot more time thinking about non-Hardy IB families than they really do.  Yeah, there was a meeting years ago where the Hardy families got really pissed at Michelle Rhee because she removed their beloved and highly competent principal without warning.  Wouldn't you be angry if your principal was whisked away from your school -- especially for a project that never materialized?  That doesn't mean that Hardy families over the years have made choices trying to prevent IB families from choosing Hardy.  Seriously, everyone has lives to lead.[/quote]

Thank you for making this point.    As a former Hardy parent (my student is in 9th grade now), I was always surprised to find that some IB parents thought there was an organized cadre of Hardy OOB families that were somehow working against their interests.   For the most parent, parents were indifferent - as PP noted, they were busy, and focused on their own kids, not theoretical future IB students.  To the extent we cared, we were happy to see people interested in the school and working to improve it.    [/quote]

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