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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please, stop the fake racism meme.  There's criticism of Hardy uniforms because public school kids don't wear uniforms unless they are too poor to purchase normal clothes; virtually NO public schools in the US require uniforms and Hardy is an extreme outlier in that regard.

Uniforms across the board are either worn by the extremely privileged in private schools or wanna-be imitators, or by the extremely poor.  Hardy kids are neither.  Nuff said.[/quote]

I said it before, I'll say it again:  if your reaction to a predominantly middle-class, AA student body wearing uniforms is "this is a group of thugs that is forced to wear these uniforms so they can be controlled" then the problem is you, not the uniforms.   Please take some time to carefully consider the implications of your views. [/quote]

Wow.  DC is not Missouri.  We desire integration/diversity here; whereas your interpretation of a benign issue like school uniforms (!,?) is coming from a different place/p.o.v. entirely.[/quote]

I think you are proving the point.  Thanks goodness, we are not Ferguson; our police are not shooting unarmed children and as a general rule, our citizens do seek integration/diversity.   [b]And yet, for a large and influential part of our community, the fact that  a group of African American students attend a school with a uniform policy is indicative of the fact that they are a group of thugs with whom it would be automatically unacceptable to attend school.
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This is false, absurd and offensive.  Deal has a very large African American population, and families in NW are clamoring (and paying handsomely through real estate) to go there.  Can someone please explain what is it about Hardy that results in it serving only 13% of its in-bounds school age population?[/quote]

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