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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question looking for a serious answer: Why is Hardy the only WOTP DCPS school requiring a uniform? Why is it needed there but not Deal, for example?[/quote]

It is not "needed" - [b]it was wanted by Hardy parents to make their school even better.  [/b]

The short history ist that about six or seven years ago the Hardy parents decided that they wanted a uniform: that it would help their kids focus more on school and less on what they were wearing, that it would help bridge income and culture gaps in a school that had children from all eight wards, and that it would help build a sense of community among the students at Hardy.   Hardy has kept the uniforms - now in a more flexible dress code - for two reasons:  1.  because parents were largely happy with them; and 2.  Inertia - there was no movement to change them.

So that's the story about Hardy uniforms.  The stuff that previous posters are saying about Hardy uniforms sending some sort of message about Hardy being an "urban" school with behavioral problems is straight up racist, troll-baiting nonsense, nothing more.[/quote]

:lol:  :lol: [/quote]

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