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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think that's fair. It's not the middle-high families from the Hill, Crestwood, etc. that scare off the IB families at Hardy. It's the kind of stories that earlier posters have told, about teachers and students getting away with intolerable behavior. What I wonder is why this behavior is not equally intolerable to OOB families at Hardy, particularly the high-SES ones.[/quote]

You're assuming that the people with the negative commentary are correct.  There are many who refute these stories and have offered up stories of their good experiences at Hardy.  [b]Why is it that you choose to take the negative posts as fact?  [/b][/quote]

Exactly.  I posted earlier, asking the poster who said there was a teacher playing video games to share if s/he had spoken with Dr. Mary, the principal. No response yet.

[b]As for foolish behavior by kids at a dismissal time-- welcome to middle school. Whether you're at Sidwell or at Hardy or Deal or Shaw Jr High, there will be foolishness simply because you have a large number of 12, 13 & 14 year olds and their hormones.[/b][/quote]

I disagree. I have frequent experience of dismissal behavior at both Deal and Oyster-Adams, though not Hardy, but between the two schools I do know, the difference is night and day. There's "foolishness" afterschool at Deal, of course, but it doesn't involve the profanity or prematurely sexual behavior I used to hear and see at Adams. And as it happened, those misbehaving at Adams were indeed OOB kids who had not gone through Oyster. There certainly does seem to be a behavior/SES correlation, and parents' concerns about behavior should indeed be addressed by the school.

Melissa Kim made a very big deal about what students were permitted to do and where they were permitted to go after leaving Deal. She was very conscious of this "obnoxious teenager" effect on perceptions of the school and potential students. This control was an excellent idea and ought to be copied by more middle schools.[/quote]

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