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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Hardy has uniforms? What/why? If so, does Deal?[/b]

Deal does not have uniforms.  Hardy does, which is part of the school's culture and history.   It is a very touchy subject.
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Ok, thanks. The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know anything. On one hand, I’m heartened by the posts that support the idea that both schools have positives and can be great for my kids. On the other, [b]it seems like there’s a lot going on below the surface that I’m just not hip to.[/b] [/quote]

It's gentrification.

Although both schools are in wealthy neighborhoods, Hardy is essentially a gentrifying school that until very recently, "IB" (aka neighborhood families) didn't utilize. Its student population came from all over the city, and even now more than  students come from less affluent neighborhoods. Their families sought out Hardy as a way to secure a seat at Wilson High School and attend a better school than the one in their own neighborhood.

That is changing; in the next few years it will almost certainly be dominated by wealthy and upper middle-class families who live in the attendance zones.

Deal is further down this road, and thus is the 'safe' option in some people's minds.

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And for some, who have mixed feelings about the 'gentrification', the uniforms represent the old DC-wide Hardy tradition.  Some IB families are ok with the uniforms.  Other, prospective Upper Northwest families wonder why the school feels the need to maintain uniforms, given the history of why urban public schools embraced uniforms in the 80s.  It's complicated.[/quote]

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