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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On uniforms "screaming inner city". What?  The Hardy kids and close neighbors from British School all look pretty studious in their uniforms after school.  what does that mean?  I see kids in uniforms around the U East side of NY --a la "Gossip Girl".  [/quote]

Public school uniforms weren't implemented so the school could imitate St Albans, they were part of a toolkit about 25 years ago to instill order and discipline in tough, ungovernable urban schools.  That is the connotation that they have for prospective parents, especially in upper NW, not some connection to the British School.  Uniforms are not the be-all-and-end-all in parent decisions, but they are a vestige of old Hardy.  Nothing would so symbolically say that Hardy is a transforming school than getting rid of the uniforms.   Maybe others retain attachment to the old Hardy, and the uniforms to them represent hanging on to that.[/quote]Kind of weird to hear people associate uniforms with the "old" Hardy since my kid attended in the middle 2000s and that was before the uniforms came in.  The true "old" Hardy had no uniforms but still had lots of OOB students.[/quote]

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