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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This controversy will set Hardy back a decade.  Sad. [/quote]

[b]PJ set Hardy back a decade.[/b] This "controversy" will reverse the backslide.[/quote]

You guys are ridiculous. In one year PJ set the school back a decade? This is the kind of ludicrous unsubstantiated hysteria that got 400 parents whipped into a frenzy to sign a letter slim on facts. It’s also the kind of statement that makes you sound racist as hell given how over the top it is.

In the more than 5 years I’ve known Hardy, it has never been some kind of perfect gem! All the things happening at Hardy now happened under Cooke and Pride and the others before them. Then we had Covid, and budget cuts, and mental health crisis affecting kids, families, and teachers. Nothing is the same from before.

Cooke was better at PR. He answered his damn emails—but man he paid a lot of lip service to a bunch of things that NEVER changed under him. Nice guy but some really crappy teachers served under his watch. We had no clubs for years with Cooke and the sports were nonexistent? Where any you actually here under Cooke’s first few years? And then there’s that other difference between Cooke and PJ…wait what was it again??? Hmmm. Never mind.

It’s funny because you loved him so and yet you have at least a few of his coworkers here telling you all repeatedly that YOU ALL contributed to his departure with your nonsense but you’re just covering your ears. “ Lalalala” I can’t hear you! It could never have been ME!! I’m not the problem. 
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There you go again with the crazed accusations of racism. I stopped reading at that point as I suspect did everybody else who has any interest in reasoned discourse. Any administrator or teacher worth their salt values parents who are invested in their children’s education and the schools that provide it. Those who abhor parental involvement and accountability for performance generally have the most to lose from it.[/quote]

I really wish you would stop pretending that this is about teachers hating parental involvement. I have great relationships with most of my families, they know that they can bring up concerns with me, and I still support many of them as they matriculate to HS.

What you are doing is overstepping the role of the parent, and that is what I think is the problem.[/quote]

DP: At least a couple of the teachers on here seem to resent the whole idea of parents. I appreciate that your perspective is different and am glad you have good relationships with students and families.

But where is the line at which parents take strong action? No doubt people have different opinions on that, but a bunch of us were at our limit. Obviously the hundreds of us who signed the petition had not taken a similar action previously in our years with DCPS.

My own family was at the point of seriously talking about moving out of DC. Perhaps a teacher would have a longer perspective, but a student having a terrible 2-3 years of a 3 year experience is too much in my own view.[/quote]

Quite frankly you should of taken your child somewhere else. Parents like you should pay tuition to get it (school) exactly how you want. [/quote]

Nope. I don't expect perfection. But when I have to drag my child to school everyday because he hates the environment, that's a problem. He, like all the rest of the kids, has the right to be there and to not feel vulnerable to someone else's misbehavior or rough-housing the whole time.

The idea that you have to put up with a miserable environment if you want to go to public school is a pathetically low standard. I expect more for my and everyone else's tax dollars.

I think what you are missing is quite how not-okay many of the kids have been this year with the lack of discipline. If you were to have my child in class, you wouldn't know how much he has hated this year. He stores up the misery until he's home. [/quote]

Your snowflake is miserable because of you. Your snowflake is fragile because of you. Your kid will have a hard time surviving in the world. Look in the mirror instead of scapegoating an innocent man. [/quote]

Yep, the innocent man who was so on top of serious security incidents that he declined to report them to parents and DCPS.

But you're right -- we should all be training our kids in combat skills so they can take on the mean halls of Hardy with plenty of swagger.  That's what school should be -- all about making preteens tough and street-smart. Screw that dumb book-learning stuff.[/quote]

You lose so much credibility with comments like this. It's not at all that serious [/quote]

Fair point. But declaring innocence and  snowflakiness with 0 actual knowledge is idiotic. But, no, I shouldn't stoop to that level.[/quote]

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