Anonymous wrote:There are many possible points of blame but this new principal has the school spiraling downward. It is a relatively small school and he has zero control. A change must be made.

Anonymous wrote:Re Hardy: I don’t know if this is a particularly bad year for behavioral issues and it needed to be cracked down on… but my kid and their group of friends say that the admin and many of the teachers have bought into a really bizarre system of demerits which they employ all willy nilly all day long at kids for any old thing: talking too much (INFRACTION), wrong sweater color (INFRACTION), ACTUALLY DOUBLE INFRACTION for being out of uniform and not-complying… it’s bizarre, sounds desperate and I hate to say it, but it’s slightly comical. There are so many emails about discipline. Is it really that bad? I don’t know. I try to stay out of it…but the kids are not super happy there. Then again it’s also middle school so who knows; it’s a sucky time for a lot of kids. I’ve had multiple kids over different admin go there and this crew is weird. I don’t get what they’re about. Some teachers are really lovely and great and then there are some total duds which I guess you could argue happens in all schools. We’ve also had lots of teacher absence as an issue there even pre Covid and under previous Principal. It is small compared to Deal and generally a nice community. It feels nicely racially and economically diverse but I don’t know for sure. Also—yes—can confirm some of these kids are getting high…its middle school. It happens.

Anonymous wrote:Hardy parent here. How do you hear about all this? I attend the PTO meetings and read the newsletter and emails from the grade reps, but they're all frustratingly vague about any "issues." Granted, my kid is noncommunicative, and we're OOB, but I'm shocked at all the stuff I never hear about.

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Anonymous wrote:Eaton was amazing for both of my kids.
Hardy has been less than good.

The shift from what Eaton is to what Hardy is, is not to be underestimated.

Same experience. Hardy has been terrible this year. It’s jarring how bad it is compared to our experience at Eaton, where my first child went from PK-5th with the exception of the full pandemic year.

Can you elaborate on the issues at Hardy, PP's?

Their children have to be around more students of color which scares them

Oh for goodness sake. Coming from Eaton, this is an absolutely false statement.

1.) Cut of all specials due to budget cuts.

2.) Cut of other staff positions resulting in little to no supervision in the hallways or around the bathrooms leading to fights, vandalism, and locked bathrooms.

3.) An utterly bizarre situation in which PE virtually did not happen for the first half of the year because for whatever reason the PE teacher kept locking the girl’s locker room and saying they therefore couldn’t have gym. On the days they did have it, the gym teacher was utterly dismissive and misogynistic towards the girls.

4.) A band and orchestra that can only meet one time a week for 30 minutes either during your lunch or advisory.

5.) An inexperienced and ineffective principal.

6.) Baffling rambling communications that bury important information unless you want to wade through what amounts to a roughly 6 page email pleading with us to provide supplies and tell our students to stop destroying the bathrooms.

7.) And yes, despite another poster’s obvious repeating of this fact in repetitive language, vaping in the bathrooms.

8.) Due to the cut of specials, extremely long academic blocks of the actual subjects.

9.) Bizarrely uneven class sizes- say science has 17 kids somehow, followed by geography at 36 kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eaton was amazing for both of my kids.
Hardy has been less than good.

The shift from what Eaton is to what Hardy is, is not to be underestimated.

Same experience. Hardy has been terrible this year. It’s jarring how bad it is compared to our experience at Eaton, where my first child went from PK-5th with the exception of the full pandemic year.

Can you elaborate on the issues at Hardy, PP's?

Their children have to be around more students of color which scares them

Oh for goodness sake. Coming from Eaton, this is an absolutely false statement.

1.) Cut of all specials due to budget cuts.

2.) Cut of other staff positions resulting in little to no supervision in the hallways or around the bathrooms leading to fights, vandalism, and locked bathrooms.

3.) An utterly bizarre situation in which PE virtually did not happen for the first half of the year because for whatever reason the PE teacher kept locking the girl’s locker room and saying they therefore couldn’t have gym. On the days they did have it, the gym teacher was utterly dismissive and misogynistic towards the girls.

4.) A band and orchestra that can only meet one time a week for 30 minutes either during your lunch or advisory.

5.) An inexperienced and ineffective principal.

6.) Baffling rambling communications that bury important information unless you want to wade through what amounts to a roughly 6 page email pleading with us to provide supplies and tell our students to stop destroying the bathrooms.

7.) And yes, despite another poster’s obvious repeating of this fact in repetitive language, vaping in the bathrooms.

8.) Due to the cut of specials, extremely long academic blocks of the actual subjects.

9.) Bizarrely uneven class sizes- say science has 17 kids somehow, followed by geography at 36 kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eaton was amazing for both of my kids.
Hardy has been less than good.

The shift from what Eaton is to what Hardy is, is not to be underestimated.

Same experience. Hardy has been terrible this year. It’s jarring how bad it is compared to our experience at Eaton, where my first child went from PK-5th with the exception of the full pandemic year.

Can you elaborate on the issues at Hardy, PP's?

Their children have to be around more students of color which scares them

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eaton was amazing for both of my kids.
Hardy has been less than good.

The shift from what Eaton is to what Hardy is, is not to be underestimated.

Same experience. Hardy has been terrible this year. It’s jarring how bad it is compared to our experience at Eaton, where my first child went from PK-5th with the exception of the full pandemic year.

Can you elaborate on the issues at Hardy, PP's?

Anonymous wrote:Hardy is terrible vaping and drugs .
Kids fighting and many teachers absent. Terrible place and the bad behavior don't have any consequences for some reason????!

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Anonymous wrote:Eaton was amazing for both of my kids.
Hardy has been less than good.

The shift from what Eaton is to what Hardy is, is not to be underestimated.

Same experience. Hardy has been terrible this year. It’s jarring how bad it is compared to our experience at Eaton, where my first child went from PK-5th with the exception of the full pandemic year.