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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]

Please don't call me a liar. Tell me, then, why was Yvette Alexander at the PTA meeting in 2009, spewing racial rhetoric? Why did Vincent Gray -- a long-time Washingtonian if there ever was one -- make Hardy an issue when he beat Fenty? In Richard Whitmire's book "The Bee Eater," which is generally effusive in its praise of Rhee, he makes the claim that the handling of Hardy cost Fenty the 2010 election. How could one school with a few hundred students tip an election in a city of over a half-million residents? Because it stands for something bigger.[/quote]Of course it was a seminal event in Fenty's downfall.  When Pope was removed, I wrote Vince Gray and asked him to run for mayor.  Not saying my email was the reason he chose to run, but there were lots of educated, politically engaged parents at Hardy.  I'm sure they were contacting their reps as well about this.

And you know why it happened?  Because Michelle Rhee [i]mismanaged[/i] the situation.  Oh yes, I know that's the unpopular view.  It's easier to say that some old guard was determined to keep IB families out but the truth is that Rhee was a neophyte when it came to managing large bureaucracies and made quite a few mistakes that she will never, ever acknowledge.

So choose your interpretation -- educated, politically active parents who were furious their principal was removed and sidelined for a year with no warning?  Or resentful old guard who were hostile to IB families?  As I have noted elsewhere, I would have loved to have more IB families.  We were fine with having y'all there but not with Rhee's hamhanded management move.  Sorry if you have a hard time distinguishing between those two things but I understand that it makes it too complicated for your narrative.[/quote]

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