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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Except from the DCPS POV it is not really a predicament - the info from this thread confirms the forecasts in last year's - Hardy is slowly, but inexorably, flipping to mostly IB.

Its only a predicament for IB folks with current 4th and 5th graders - at least those among them who do not consider the current state of Hardy adequate.  That is not particularly a predicament for Hardy or DCPS.   [/quote]

More accurately stated, the predicament for many upper NW families is that they are frustrated in not having access to "the highly desired schools" in their area for their kids' middle school years.  They find Hardy lacking compared to Deal.  Maybe some day that will change, but it will take hard work and change to get there.[/quote]

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