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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, [b]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 -- the principal should reconsider the uniform policy.  [/quote]

Oh my. The spoiled brat tone of this is breathtaking. Consolation is that you reap what you sow indulging children in that kind of thinking. [/quote]

Not the PP, but nonsense.   It's pretty easy to understand why a parent would be sensitive to her child feeling VERY different from her friends at a touchy age.  Don't play dumb.  It detracts from any credibility you want to assert.[/quote]

Seriously, parents are worried about how their kids will feel because their friends at DIFFERENT school don't wear uniforms?  give me a break.  It would be one thing if only certain kids within a school had to wear uniforms but to hoenstly worry about kids at another school?  That is the dumbest thing I have heard on DCUM today (and thats saying a lot).[/quote]

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