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[quote=Anonymous]Horace Mann parent here, just emerged from a one-hour reading of this topic plus a few older ones on Hardy.

There's very little to add, but since so many people felt entitled to write about Hardy in this thread with nothing new to say, I want to share my experience too.

I just recently had the chance to experience firsthand the climate of misconceptions , prejudice and misinformation about Hardy. For some reasons, some parents seems to enjoy or find "cool" spreading false and negative information about the school (or have a private agenda which I don't understand).

My case: a couple of months ago, while talking to parents after drop off, I learned that a number of students from last year's Mann 5th grade had opted for Hardy, for the first time in many years. "Great!" I said, only to be immediately silenced by two parents, who added that "yes, but they were only the Mann OB students. No IB Mann family would ever choose Hardy!".

Now, at last week's meeting at Mann on Hardy, I had the chance to personally meet with some of those ex-Mann parents and students, and realized that they were not only IB families , but also among the best students of their class, as our Principal confirmed at the meeting.

This week I intend to go back and talk to the parents who had passed me the wrong and biased information, make them aware of the real picture but also of the fact that the wrong/biased information they are uncaringly spreading around is adversely damaging our community.

Sorry for any iPhone typos.[/quote]

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