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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] For the umpteenth time, there is no mysterious Hardy old guard.  There are parents - IB and OOB - that send their kids to Hardy.  Their kids are there for three years, during which some parents are active in the school PTO.  Then those parents move on to high school and other opportunities.  They - rightfully - end their involvement with Hardy when their kids move on.   Stop acting like there is some organized group acting like they want thes school to be like it was in 1975 [or 1985, or 1995, or 2005...].  There is only parents who want a good education for their children.      When you refer to currents parents as some kind of "old guard" all it says is that you are too lazy to bother  visiting the school and talking to current parents.[/quote]

I haven't been in Hardy this year, but I followed the school closely 2010-2013 trying to decide if my own kids should attend. At that time, there definitely was an old guard, consisting of teachers who were dead-set opposed to changes in the school, and alumni and long-time washingtonians -- almost entirely not current parents -- who saw Hardy as a milestone victory in the fight against segregation that they weren't giving back. There's a reason the replacement of the principal became a city-wide issue.[/quote]

You "followed the school closely"?   Can you clarify if you did or did not actually cross the threshold and enter the building?

You are right about the teachers circa-2010.   But wrong about the teachers now.  Some may be set in their ways, but that's cause they are old school teachers - not because of some big Hardy thing.  At any rate, they are now on board with Principal Pride.

You are lying - flat out lying - about the alumni and long-time Washingtonians.  I was a Hardy parents, was very active on the PTA, and was very close to the teachers and Princiapl at the time.  No such outside group of alumni and long-time Washingtonians that had any interest or influence on the school.

Please stop this "old Hardy guard" canard.[/quote]

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