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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now I figured out exactly why white northeast liberals are worse racists than white conservative southerners.  White northeast liberals surgically segregate undesirable races out if their lives while southern conservatives integrate with the natural friction but at least they integrate .[/quote]

Having lived in both places I can say that was not my experience AT ALL.

Anyway what are the other criticsms of Hardy besides it's ib rate, it's size and it's uniform policy? [/quote]

You missed the most important one. Test scores, which though not perfect,are the best measure of education quality available.

I am very happy Hardy has a stable staff and seems poised to make progress. We sent our oldest to private during the principal churn years, but there is a chance we could send the younger one to Hardy.[/quote]

Yep, test scores are the biggest deterrent.  Ward 3 kids simply perform at a much higher level, as a whole, than kids from outside of Ward 3, as a whole.  Hence the tit-for-tat about snobbery and racism; but when you get down to it the scores speak for themselves.  You can argue about the generational, social causes for lower test scores, but that's beside the point when parents desire the best possible education for their kid(s), in the present.  Parents tend to want high-achieving kids to be surrounded by (mostly) other high achieving kids.  Once this is acknowledged, what else is there to discuss other than uniforms and P.E.?[/quote]

Well, as an IB parent with a 6th grader now at Hardy, for us the big issue (which you did not mention) was whether the school was going to be able to provide teaching and learning at a lever that would challenge him (proficient/advanced student from a top IB ES) and push him along the same or a steeper learning curve, in a context where we knew he would have been surrounded by, on average, lower achieving peers.

After visiting the school several times, talking to Hardy parents as well as with several 6th grade teachers, we felt fully confident, actually excited, about his prospective academic and social experience at the school.

The kid is now thriving at Hardy. We could not be happier. 6th grade teaching team is amazing and inspiring.

So in our view there was a lot more to discuss beyond our kid being surrounded by mostly high achieving kids, uniforms and P.E. . [/quote]

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