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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Hardy PTA has become pretty organized. They should conduct a Survey Monkey asking parents and students if they like uniforms or would prefer not to have them. If they nix the uniforms they could institute a reasonably rigid dress code to avoid the stuff I know the admin worries about (jeans worn below the butt with boxers hanging out; non-existent mini skirts; tank tops and mid drafts) The school can collect no longer used uniforms and that is what children showing up to school inappropriately dressed get to wear instead. [/quote]

The question at Hardy is not with the families who enroll, but the ones who don't.

It is believed that a significantly lower share of in-boundary families choose Hardy than Deal. But nobody outside of DCPS central office really knows, because that information -- the capture rate -- is not publicly revealed. While it may be knowable with information that DCPS has, we don't even know for sure whether anyone in DCPS actually looks at it.  If you wanted to address that disparity -- and that in of itself is not a uncontroversial idea, there are plenty of people who say that those who opt out of their neighborhood school lose their voice, but say you wanted to -- the people you should be polling are not the existing Hardy families, but instead the in-boundary families who didn't choose Hardy. But that isn't an easily identifiable group. And people are complicated. For example it's hard to distinguish between those who were always planning on going private for middle school and those who were turned off by a single key issue (eg uniforms).[/quote]Oh god, here we go again. Someone up thread said this is more symbolic than substantive (you, pp?) but even so there are posters who want Hardy to change the policy before they would deign to consider enrolling rather than enrolling their kids, joining the PTA, and lobbying for the change. If it's not really a substantive problem it shouldn't keep people from enrolling their kids and mobilizing together to change the policy.

I'm sorry, pp, because I know this is important to you but can you see how this comes across? As a former OOB mom, I'm all in support of you getting in there and trying to change the policy once your kids are enrolled but why should anyone listen to you if you won't make a commitment to the school? [/quote]

PP here. No, I'm not the one obsessed with uniforms. You've done an excellent job though of emphasizing the point I was trying to make, which is that 1) if you're trying to attract more IB families the existing families are not representative of the people you're trying to target; and 2) the idea of attracting more IB families is not exactly uncontroversial.
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