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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any in boundary families sending their kids to Hardy next year?[/quote]

IB for Hardy here, we considered for a moment but after a talk with the "new-old" principal and after having seen how Hardy students behave outside school we decided to send our daughter to a charter ([b]and we are very happy with our choice[/b]).[/quote]

And the Hardy families are happy with this choice as well. [/quote]

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Why so defie site.  The poster made and observation and then chose differently for her child.  Your snarky response basically telling her you are glad she isn't at Hardy makes me think YOU have concerns as well about behavior but maybe didn't get into the charter you wanted.[/quote]

I suspect it has nothing to do with that - if the poster had wanted to go to a charter instead of Hardy, they would have gone to a charter.

As a Hardy parent, I can tell you there is a lot of sensitivity to the way Hardy students are judged based on their behavior out of school.   I've seen it firsthand - an exuberant group of AA Hardy students outside of school is judged as being a bunch of thugs; a similarly exuberant group of white students from a different school is viewed completely differently - as a happy group of non-threatening middle schoolers.  It  happens again and again.

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So very true.  My kids are at Hearst and I hear that comment often from local parents who bring their kids to our playground and say they would never send their kids to the school because of the behavior they observe on the playground.  I truly wonder how many groups of elementary schools kids they've observed as a comparison.  I suspect it's not the "behavior" of the kids that bothers them, as much as they don't want to admit it to themselves.[/quote]

You suspect, do you? Jesus, can we please place some breaks on the wild insinuations.

[b]Bad parenting is not a racial phenomenon.[/b] I am continually amazed when I take my daughter to playgrounds and other kids just push and butt in line, while their parents sit idly by. When my daughter cuts in line, I usually loudly correct her in front of other parents, to which I inevitably hear some other parent say "It's okay." I reply that "No, it's not. I don't want her to be 'that kid.'" [/quote]

Yes, that is my point.  That type of behavior happens everywhere, with all types of kids, at every school playground.  And  yet I often hear behavior as an excuse not to send kids to a school like Hearst.  But no one sits outside the playground at Janney and says they'd never send their kids there because of the playground behavior, even though the kids act the same.  Just as the PP said about the behavior or Hardy kids.  They act like middle school kids do everywhere but they are looked at more critically because they are AA.[/quote]

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