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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You forgot to mention a third type of parents: those who genuinely think that Hardy is the best educational option for their kid. No need to reassure themselves. No interest or intention to contribute to the change.
Kids are different, parents are different. The school is a great match for some, and is a bad match for others. It definetly works great for kids  who are socially mature and academically advanced. Those kids will thrive at Hardy.

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And who have thick skins and can adjust ok from more nurturing and civil WOTP elementary school environments to the "tough love" disciplinary culture still practiced at Hardy[/quote]

It does not take a thick skin to understand that you do not want to say to a kid from a diverse neighborhood in your same line at the cafeteria that "I do not understand what you are saying, first learn proper English pronunciation, then get back to me". That's a sentence that generated a bad reaction last year.

You do not need a thick skin to understand that this was an inappropriate statement. And a statement leading to trouble. Mature, intelligent and considerate 6th graders, grown in a cultural environment open to acceptance and diversity, would never say that.

If your kid is not socially considerate, still naive about social issues, and in need of a few additional years of nurturing , with all the due respect, consider going to a small private school (Holy Trinity is an excellent one). No Hardy, no Basis, no Latin. Maybe not even National Cathedral or St Albans. And turn to Hardy for your youngest child, when and if the school will be populated by 90% feeder school kids.[/quote]

Not everyone thinks that it is a good thing when a school embraces Ebonycs.  It just perpetuates rather than addresses a handicap that will hold back certain kids once they get into the job market.[/quote]

Ok, agree, let me re-phrase: You do not need a thick skin to understand that this was an inappropriate statement. And a statement leading to trouble. Mature, intelligent and considerate Caucasian-American 6th graders, grown in a cultural environment open to acceptance and diversity, would never say that. [/quote]

Not familiar with the incident you write about, and perhaps the students involved could have handled it more sensitively.  But good God, I've been on Metro trains where the driver's voice on the PA system is so slurred and words so poorly enunciated that it sounds like the late Mayor Barry after a particularly bad cognac-and crack-bender.  Is it insensitive to point that out to Metro?[/quote]

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