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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Latin, it was definitely an attempt to instill discipline.  It bugs me that Hardy parents give years ago got to decide what my kid wears to a PUBLIC school.  Ridiculous!  What if parents refuse to put their kids in uniforms? [/quote]

I think you've hit upon a real issue here.

There is a fundamental difference between a charter school, a private school, and a neighborhood school. You attend a neighborhood school as a matter of right, you don't apply. At an application school, the leaders of the school can tailor the school atmosphere to attract the kind of student they want to apply. At a neighborhood school the school leaders should be tailoring the school to the people who live in the neighborhood.

Hardy has a difficult legacy because at one time it was run essentially as a magnet school, students had to apply. The uniforms are a vestige of that legacy. They need to go.[/quote]

I don't think Hardy is the only neighborhood school that requires uniforms.  Let's not get sidelined.[/quote]

No, the pp makes a good point. The [u]neighborhood surrounding Hardy[/u] is comprised of parents and potential parents who I feel certain would eschew the inner city public school uniform.   The message of the inner city school uniform is a turn off.

A turn off, but not an absolute barrier.  So many glover park and palisades parents wind up applying to uniform-positive Latin and basis. [/quote]

So khaki pants and polo shirts worn by a predominantly middle-class AA student body at a Georgetown school becomes an "inner city school uniform"?  At this point, the stupidity, racism, and general ignorance on this thread could not be piled any higher or deeper.

Signed,

Hardy Dad who's looking forward to sending his child back for another great year on Monday.[/quote]

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