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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even if it's interpreted as a "dress code" -- which, according to the school itself, it's not -- it's a horribly authoritarian, restrictive variety of dress code.  Kids can't wear different colored pants, including jeans?  Where did Hardy's leadership go to school, North Korea?[/quote]

We have friends with kids at a private school. They have uniforms. They can't wear jeans.  No one at that school has the slightest connection to North Korea.   [/quote]

Right, those elitist private schools have UNIFORMS.  Of course, a school with a uniform policy would not have a jeans-only uniform; it wouldn't make sense.  But, one of the prior posters here seems to believe that Hardy does not have a uniform policy, but a dress code policy.  If it's merely a dress code policy, then why not allow the kids to wear jeans, for cryin' out loud?  It's not like there's a UNIFORM or something militaristic like that.  Sure, draw the line at flip-flops and T-shirts, I suppose, but if a school's going to have a dress code, let's not treat them like it's a prison with a head warden smacking around a riding crop in their faces all the time.[/quote]

First: please note that you are offending me and my kid.

Second: dress code helps unifying such a diverse community, where some kids could come to school with a $300 outfit, some others come from families where this figure amount to a sizeable portion of their monthly rent.

IB mom (whose kid is one of those who could come to school with a $300 outfit)[/quote]

Offended?  What it the heavens is offensive about questioning the relative (if that) benefits of a school uniform?  The number of public schools in DC with a "uniform" or "very restrictive dress code" number in the single digits, and none of them seem to have any problem whatsoever "unifying a diverse community" without a uniform.  What's offensive is the way your mind works if you think your own pablum makes any logical sense.[/quote]

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