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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]Yes, removing a competent principal and keeping him out of any school for a whole year on the pretense of having him create a new magnet school that never came into existence.  I'd say that that is bad management that should have concerned everyone in the city.[/quote]

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