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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eaton was amazing for both of my kids.
Hardy has been less than good.

The shift from what Eaton is to what Hardy is, is not to be underestimated. 
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Same experience. Hardy has been terrible this year. It’s jarring how bad it is compared to our experience at Eaton, where my first child went from PK-5th with the exception of the full pandemic year. [/quote]

Can you elaborate on the issues at Hardy, PP's? [/quote]

Their children have to be around more students of color which scares them[/quote]

Oh for goodness sake. Coming from Eaton, this is an absolutely false statement.

1.) Cut of all specials due to budget cuts.

2.) Cut of other staff positions resulting in little to no supervision in the hallways or around the bathrooms leading to fights, vandalism, and locked bathrooms.

3.) An utterly bizarre situation in which PE virtually did not happen for the first half of the year because for whatever reason the PE teacher kept locking the girl’s locker room and saying they therefore couldn’t have gym. On the days they did have it, the gym teacher was utterly dismissive and misogynistic towards the girls.

4.) A band and orchestra that can only meet one time a week for 30 minutes either during your lunch or advisory.

5.) An inexperienced and ineffective principal.

6.) Baffling rambling communications that bury important information unless you want to wade through what amounts to a roughly 6 page email pleading with us to provide supplies and tell our students to stop destroying the bathrooms.

7.) And yes, despite another poster’s obvious repeating of this fact in repetitive language, vaping in the bathrooms.

8.) Due to the cut of specials, extremely long academic blocks of the actual subjects.

9.) Bizarrely uneven class sizes- say science has 17 kids somehow, followed by geography at 36 kids. [/quote]

Thank you for summarizing this for others. As a fellow Hardy parent I will add a few more and also point out that the majority of the issues are with THE ADULTS in the school:

1. Lack of responsiveness from teachers
2. Lack of accountability and responsiveness from administration
3. Lack of adult role models at school. The beginning of the year started off with a real bang with the Athletic Director and another staff member being fired for encouraging student athletes to lie about paperwork. That's the tip of the iceberg from that situation.
4. The aforementioned gym teacher who is a known misogynist who my daughter has complained about. 
5. A female advisory teacher who talks to the girls about diets and losing weight.
6. A science teacher who is racist. 
7. An inability to carry out school extracurricular clubs to any effective level. Things being cancelled constantly.
8. Inconsistency in educational opportunities within the same grade based on which teacher you may or may not have

IF* (and that's because they do not always respond) someone writes back regarding any voiced concerns, it's basically a "too bad" form letter "we will note your concerns" type of thing. You can only blame so much on budget cuts. 
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