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[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 (and we are very happy with our choice).[/quote]

I'm the person who originally posted this comment.

I was just trying, maybe not eloquently, to share the reason why we didn't send our kid to Hardy. I don't have any agenda, if I did, I don't think I would be using this board to push it. In fact, I would consider myself a sore loser if I considered this board a viable medium to push an agenda.

I really didn't like what the old (new at that time) principal said about the school (in particular the amount of time she thought it would take to turn the school around) and I did not like the way the Hardy students behaved outside school. And yes, it is true that I didn't run an experiment to ascertain if the differences in behavior between the Hardy kids and kids from other schools were statistically significant. Guilty! Now, you might make this into a racial/class issue, and that's your prerogative, but for me it was just the matter of making a rational decision about something that is my responsibility as a parent. I don't think something terrible would have happened had I sent my child to Hardy, but I looked around and I thought that there were better choices, options that would suit my child better.

I'm assuming that if one decided to send their child to Hardy she thought it was an OK decision. I really don't feel I have any standing to criticize or judge their decision. In general I tend to think that people make thoughtful and responsible decisions, but I know that I give some people too much credit.

Peace

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