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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kids at the British School across the street also wear a uniform.  It looks similar to Hardy's; kids in wrinkled, re-worn stuff.  Not a future fashionista in the entire bunch of them; but not a big deal I guess.[/quote]

The British school uniforms look a little silly, like someone's idea of English little boy and little girl outfits just after the War.  But parents who enroll their kids there do so completely voluntarily, paying with full knowledge of the school's expectations, as well as affectations.  Unless a kid gets into a good charter or the parents can afford private, she or he has pretty much no choice about going to Hardy, uniforms and all.  There's a difference.[/quote]

This is true of any middle school, private or public.  All schools have a culture - some value jocks, some value geeks, some value arts and music, some have dress codes, some do not; some have informal dress codes with kids that do not meet these informal codes being ostracized; some are cliquish, some are not; some are large, some are small; some teach to the test; others give kids a lot more intellectual freedom.

Each school has a culture.   If you want to pay for private or move to a public with a different culture, then of course you can pick your culture.  If you want to go public and don't want to move, then yes, you won't be able to choose the culture.   Of course, if your child attends, as a parent or prospective parents at the school, you can (hopefully constructively) work to change that culture.[/quote]

The Hardy uniforms are a relic of the"tough love", strict discipline approach that was all the rage in the late 1980s/early 1990s to try to bring order to inner city public schools.  It's time for the school to move into the 21st century and get more in tune with a changing DC.[/quote]

Except that they are not; they date from the mid-late 2000s and were not put in place because of any kind of tough-love or disciplinary needs.   Please stop this pernicious and false stereotype.[/quote]Agree. I just love how people make up stuff about Hardy. ~parent who was there when the parents voted to support uniforms[/quote]

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