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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is absolutely about race, class, and privilege. It’s not about children.  I know form many of you, you don’t see race and that is called privilege. The good folks over in the Palisades/ Georgetown decided this man was not doing what they wanted or needed him to do. They then used their privilege and formed a gang and used the rot privilege to jump in other gang members and used their power and privilege to strong arm DCPS leadership. I mean most folks are scared of bullies- especially bullies who have power. If it makes you all feel better to say he is incompetent—okay. An incompetent white man would be given the space to be a first year principal. An incompetent white man ( or woman) would be coached and supported. According to DCPS history they might even be moved to a school that was a better match. Circa— that time when they put an incompetent white man to lead Anacostia HS. He was nicely walked over to Stuart Hobson and supported. I guess he is great now. Folks, cut the crap. This how racism looks. [/quote]

Class and privilege are definitely at play. A dedicated group of volunteers was able to rally the time and the resources to put in hundreds of hours to try and remedy the situation, and when they had exhausted all other avenues, mustered nearly 450 caregivers to support bringing in a new principal -- in May.  Similarly dedicated parents who lack the time and resources to commit might not have achieved this. This Hardy family is grateful to see all this effort and resources invested in building up our neighborhood public school.

Race is not a factor. Hardy is an incredibly diverse school and all of us there benefit from this level of parent involvement. Please know that the principal *was* offered support throughout the year, but rebuffed these offers. [/quote]

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