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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know what, if uniforms are what's keeping out the IB kids who opt for private school, then maybe all the naysayers should cool it with the uniform anxiety.  I don't want my kid snorting coke more likely speed in 8th grade -- let 'em do it on their parents' dime.  Think of the uniforms as a prophylactic against the malaise of the super-privileged.[/quote]

Perhaps, but the uniforms also perpetuate the image (myth) that Hardy remains a chaotic, undisciplined inner city type school.[/quote]

I agree.  I have no philosophical problems with uniforms, but I do have a problem with only implementing them in certain schools.  I don't get why it can't be a DCPS-wide policy, either way.  It sends a message that there are two different DCPS sysems/schools, beyond the charter and the neighborhood schools.[/quote]

There are more than two systems. There are the highly desired schools in upper NW, the struggling schools EOTR, the slowly reviving schools EOTP, the test in schools - [b]and then there is Hardy[/b].

Adopting uniforms everywhere would not change that.  But would piss a lot of people off. [/quote]

That phrase kind of sums up Hardy's predicament -- "then there is Hardy."   Hardy's challenge is to get to the first group ("the highly desired schools in upper NW").[/quote]

Maybe not.  Henderson is destroying Wilson for who knows what reason; maybe if Hardy just keeps its uniforms and continues to give off fumes smelling of IB-repellant, DCPS will leave it alone, and it will continue to be a great safe place for earnest kids.[/quote]

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