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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think I think for a lot of us who think that uniforms are just flat-out silly and useless.  They are dumb at St. Alban's, the British School, wherever you care to look.  Yes, some of it is elitist branding at private schools -- but that's elitist branding.  Some of it amounts to "coying" eltist branding, which doesn't say much for anyone who thinks that's cool.  Some of it is authoritarian b.s. -- "look! at how the kids under my control are doing what I'm telling them to do!" (by wearing some kind of outfit).  "I must be a great Principal leader person!"

I am least persuaded by parents who say "it's so easy, for me, they just put on the same stuff everyday."  It's not about YOU, honey, it's about allowing the kids the freedom to wear what they want to wear.[/quote]

No need to say that the school is very "diverse". You see it from the inside and from the outside by looking at the available statistics. As an Hardy parent, my informed view is that uniforms help kids stay focused on the fact that, in front of the teacher and of their everyday academic challenges, they are all the same: kids who are there to learn.

I did have negative perceptions about the school, mostly wrong. I am not sure whether uniforms contributed to those wrong perceptions, but they were gone as soon as I visited the school, talked to the principal, and, most important of all, talked to the 6th grade teachers.

And of course it's not about us! If you ask Hardy kids, including girls, most of them will tell you that they do like uniforms. Some will go as far as to tell you that they are proud of their Hawk uniforms.

The debate on uniforms is open, and Ms Pride has made clear that she's available to rethink the uniform policy on the basis of input from the parents and students community. Outsiders's views are welcomed and considered as they have always been (leading to many school changes, including the new Chinese classes, as well as honors English and Science which are new to the school and were requested by prospective parents). There's a well-established channel for reaching to the school. Please enquiry with your elementary feeder school "Hardy contact parent" , there's more than one in each of the feeder schools . Or get in contact with the Hardy PTO directly, contacts are on the school website.

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