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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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DP: My DS has hated his experience at Hardy this year -- abhors the constant misbehavior and lack of any effective discipline. If he had hated school this much under Cooke, I would have been complaining then too. I'm not accepting that he -- nor my younger DS -- should have to just be miserable because you think it was bad in the past too. I'm sorry change is tough for you, even if it may turn out positive for everyone.[/quote]

I still fail to see how any of this makes things better for Hardy in the short and long term. Starting a search for a new leader and probably a good amount of teachers a month or two behind everyone else. Whoever is principal next year will be just as new and inexperienced, and I can promise you that there is nothing DCPS central is going to do to impact student misbehavior [/quote]

Things were not getting better over the course of this year; they were getting worse. Now they have a decent chance of getting better.  No one is under illusions that Hardy is suddenly idyllic, but there's space for optimism now.[/quote]

Agreed. Looking forward to next year being better at Hardy[/quote]

I really don't think parents understand what this does to a schools reputation from a staffing perspective. It's prime hiring time. Teachers aren't going to accept a job where there is no principal, especially with the reasons why this principal was removed. That post article has already been shared on the WTU page and I think Hardy is going to end up losing teachers over this as well. [/quote]

It’s “a school’s reputation.”  Possessive.

Also, “That Post article  has already been shared on the WTU page, and..”.  Note the comma and proper noun.

I don’t believe you are a Hardy teacher.    
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Nice. This shows who you really are. This man never had a chance. You are sick and hell— Racist. [/quote]

Sorry, what? Now demanding that teachers use proper English and grammar is evidence of racism? [/quote]

This is the same obvious troll that’s been stirring up nonsense on every board on this site.  Same foolish sh-t stirring trolling, same grammar mistakes.  Earlier they were spelling all the school names wrong, and they didn’t know what DMV meant.  [/quote]

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