Reply to So how many IB are going to really be at Hardy?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "So how many IB are going to really be at Hardy? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^sorry for the typos

And just to get it out of the way, no I'm not saying that St Alban's and Hardy are the same school. It would be foolish to compare St.Alban's with any public school. I'm just responding to the poster who asserts that Hardy's uniform policy is about controlling unruly urban youths while St Alban's policy is simply about "tradition."

Whatever. I'm sure that poster will drum up another reason to hate on Hardy. In the meantime let me go make sure my son has his khakis and navy blue polo ready for school on Monday.

--a Hardy mom[/quote]

Public school uniforms are among the portfolio of measures, that were once the latest fad thought to add control and focus to failing, inner city schools.  Uniforms were part of a tough, regimented approach to discipline believed necessary to bring order out of chaos.  A PP said that Montgomery County, MD schools do not allow uniforms while many PG schools mandate them.  Of these templates, I think that most parents would say, if you're going to have a public schools role  model, it should be closer to MoCo's than to PG's.  I mean that some PG schools are apparently so dysfunctional that parents are sneaking their kids across the District line to enroll them in so-so DCPS schools.  Whatever conditions once prevailed at Hardy that compelled uniforms, I hope that the school has moved beyond them.  Or has it?  From the standpoint of Hardy recruiting a more diverse, higher IB share student body, school uniforms do send the wrong signal.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics