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Anonymous wrote:This controversy will set Hardy back a decade. Sad.

PJ set Hardy back a decade. This "controversy" will reverse the backslide.

You guys are ridiculous. In one year PJ set the school back a decade? This is the kind of ludicrous unsubstantiated hysteria that got 400 parents whipped into a frenzy to sign a letter slim on facts. It’s also the kind of statement that makes you sound racist as hell given how over the top it is.

In the more than 5 years I’ve known Hardy, it has never been some kind of perfect gem! All the things happening at Hardy now happened under Cooke and Pride and the others before them. Then we had Covid, and budget cuts, and mental health crisis affecting kids, families, and teachers. Nothing is the same from before.

Cooke was better at PR. He answered his damn emails—but man he paid a lot of lip service to a bunch of things that NEVER changed under him. Nice guy but some really crappy teachers served under his watch. We had no clubs for years with Cooke and the sports were nonexistent? Where any you actually here under Cooke’s first few years? And then there’s that other difference between Cooke and PJ…wait what was it again??? Hmmm. Never mind.

It’s funny because you loved him so and yet you have at least a few of his coworkers here telling you all repeatedly that YOU ALL contributed to his departure with your nonsense but you’re just covering your ears. “ Lalalala” I can’t hear you! It could never have been ME!! I’m not the problem.

There you go again with the crazed accusations of racism. I stopped reading at that point as I suspect did everybody else who has any interest in reasoned discourse. Any administrator or teacher worth their salt values parents who are invested in their children’s education and the schools that provide it. Those who abhor parental involvement and accountability for performance generally have the most to lose from it.

I really wish you would stop pretending that this is about teachers hating parental involvement. I have great relationships with most of my families, they know that they can bring up concerns with me, and I still support many of them as they matriculate to HS.

What you are doing is overstepping the role of the parent, and that is what I think is the problem.

DP: At least a couple of the teachers on here seem to resent the whole idea of parents. I appreciate that your perspective is different and am glad you have good relationships with students and families.

But where is the line at which parents take strong action? No doubt people have different opinions on that, but a bunch of us were at our limit. Obviously the hundreds of us who signed the petition had not taken a similar action previously in our years with DCPS.

My own family was at the point of seriously talking about moving out of DC. Perhaps a teacher would have a longer perspective, but a student having a terrible 2-3 years of a 3 year experience is too much in my own view.

Quite frankly you should of taken your child somewhere else. Parents like you should pay tuition to get it (school) exactly how you want.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not a Hardy parent but good for these parents for getting organized and leading an effective outcome.
This puts DCPS on notice that they better do right by Hardy.
Maybe someone could encourage the Hardy parent organizers to help other parent communities at other schools to organize as well to pressure DCPS to improve learning conditions.
DCPS needs accountability as they get away with way too much crap

This would be viewed as "condescending" and "evidence of privilege". There is no winning. If you don't try and help you are a racist. If you try and help you are a racist. The only acceptable response is to self flagellate early and often and hope to be labeled and ally.

-signed
Someone who used to try and support these causes but has had enough

Everyone get out your tiniest violins for the poor white victims in our society

You miss the point. We don't care about your name calling. Hardy is better for our activism. But you do you because calling people names is surely going to help improve schools where you pretend to live. Shocking that whining and name calling of white folks in W3 and W2 hasn't yet improved schools in W7 and W8. That really seemed like a winning approach on paper.

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Anonymous wrote:This controversy will set Hardy back a decade. Sad.

PJ set Hardy back a decade. This "controversy" will reverse the backslide.

You guys are ridiculous. In one year PJ set the school back a decade? This is the kind of ludicrous unsubstantiated hysteria that got 400 parents whipped into a frenzy to sign a letter slim on facts. It’s also the kind of statement that makes you sound racist as hell given how over the top it is.

In the more than 5 years I’ve known Hardy, it has never been some kind of perfect gem! All the things happening at Hardy now happened under Cooke and Pride and the others before them. Then we had Covid, and budget cuts, and mental health crisis affecting kids, families, and teachers. Nothing is the same from before.

Cooke was better at PR. He answered his damn emails—but man he paid a lot of lip service to a bunch of things that NEVER changed under him. Nice guy but some really crappy teachers served under his watch. We had no clubs for years with Cooke and the sports were nonexistent? Where any you actually here under Cooke’s first few years? And then there’s that other difference between Cooke and PJ…wait what was it again??? Hmmm. Never mind.

It’s funny because you loved him so and yet you have at least a few of his coworkers here telling you all repeatedly that YOU ALL contributed to his departure with your nonsense but you’re just covering your ears. “ Lalalala” I can’t hear you! It could never have been ME!! I’m not the problem.

There you go again with the crazed accusations of racism. I stopped reading at that point as I suspect did everybody else who has any interest in reasoned discourse. Any administrator or teacher worth their salt values parents who are invested in their children’s education and the schools that provide it. Those who abhor parental involvement and accountability for performance generally have the most to lose from it.

I really wish you would stop pretending that this is about teachers hating parental involvement. I have great relationships with most of my families, they know that they can bring up concerns with me, and I still support many of them as they matriculate to HS.

What you are doing is overstepping the role of the parent, and that is what I think is the problem.

DP: At least a couple of the teachers on here seem to resent the whole idea of parents. I appreciate that your perspective is different and am glad you have good relationships with students and families.

But where is the line at which parents take strong action? No doubt people have different opinions on that, but a bunch of us were at our limit. Obviously the hundreds of us who signed the petition had not taken a similar action previously in our years with DCPS.

My own family was at the point of seriously talking about moving out of DC. Perhaps a teacher would have a longer perspective, but a student having a terrible 2-3 years of a 3 year experience is too much in my own view.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This controversy will set Hardy back a decade. Sad.

PJ set Hardy back a decade. This "controversy" will reverse the backslide.

You guys are ridiculous. In one year PJ set the school back a decade? This is the kind of ludicrous unsubstantiated hysteria that got 400 parents whipped into a frenzy to sign a letter slim on facts. It’s also the kind of statement that makes you sound racist as hell given how over the top it is.

In the more than 5 years I’ve known Hardy, it has never been some kind of perfect gem! All the things happening at Hardy now happened under Cooke and Pride and the others before them. Then we had Covid, and budget cuts, and mental health crisis affecting kids, families, and teachers. Nothing is the same from before.

Cooke was better at PR. He answered his damn emails—but man he paid a lot of lip service to a bunch of things that NEVER changed under him. Nice guy but some really crappy teachers served under his watch. We had no clubs for years with Cooke and the sports were nonexistent? Where any you actually here under Cooke’s first few years? And then there’s that other difference between Cooke and PJ…wait what was it again??? Hmmm. Never mind.

It’s funny because you loved him so and yet you have at least a few of his coworkers here telling you all repeatedly that YOU ALL contributed to his departure with your nonsense but you’re just covering your ears. “ Lalalala” I can’t hear you! It could never have been ME!! I’m not the problem.

There you go again with the crazed accusations of racism. I stopped reading at that point as I suspect did everybody else who has any interest in reasoned discourse. Any administrator or teacher worth their salt values parents who are invested in their children’s education and the schools that provide it. Those who abhor parental involvement and accountability for performance generally have the most to lose from it.

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Anonymous wrote:This controversy will set Hardy back a decade. Sad.

What? You think the UMC families that predominate Hardy are going to go somewhere else? To protest...an active PTA? Demands for competent principals? The only [b]people who are upset by this are race baiters who don't send their kids to Hardy and like to agitate to stir up crap.[/b]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This controversy will set Hardy back a decade. Sad.

PJ set Hardy back a decade. This "controversy" will reverse the backslide.

You guys are ridiculous. In one year PJ set the school back a decade? This is the kind of ludicrous unsubstantiated hysteria that got 400 parents whipped into a frenzy to sign a letter slim on facts. It’s also the kind of statement that makes you sound racist as hell given how over the top it is.

In the more than 5 years I’ve known Hardy, it has never been some kind of perfect gem! All the things happening at Hardy now happened under Cooke and Pride and the others before them. Then we had Covid, and budget cuts, and mental health crisis affecting kids, families, and teachers. Nothing is the same from before.

Cooke was better at PR. He answered his damn emails—but man he paid a lot of lip service to a bunch of things that NEVER changed under him. Nice guy but some really crappy teachers served under his watch. We had no clubs for years with Cooke and the sports were nonexistent? Where any you actually here under Cooke’s first few years? And then there’s that other difference between Cooke and PJ…wait what was it again??? Hmmm. Never mind.

It’s funny because you loved him so and yet you have at least a few of his coworkers here telling you all repeatedly that YOU ALL contributed to his departure with your nonsense but you’re just covering your ears. “ Lalalala” I can’t hear you! It could never have been ME!! I’m not the problem.

There you go again with the crazed accusations of racism. I stopped reading at that point as I suspect did everybody else who has any interest in reasoned discourse. Any administrator or teacher worth their salt values parents who are invested in their children’s education and the schools that provide it. Those who abhor parental involvement and accountability for performance generally have the most to lose from it.

I really wish you would stop pretending that this is about teachers hating parental involvement. I have great relationships with most of my families, they know that they can bring up concerns with me, and I still support many of them as they matriculate to HS.

What you are doing is overstepping the role of the parent, and that is what I think is the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not a Hardy parent but good for these parents for getting organized and leading an effective outcome.
This puts DCPS on notice that they better do right by Hardy.
Maybe someone could encourage the Hardy parent organizers to help other parent communities at other schools to organize as well to pressure DCPS to improve learning conditions.
DCPS needs accountability as they get away with way too much crap

This would be viewed as "condescending" and "evidence of privilege". There is no winning. If you don't try and help you are a racist. If you try and help you are a racist. The only acceptable response is to self flagellate early and often and hope to be labeled and ally.

-signed
Someone who used to try and support these causes but has had enough

Everyone get out your tiniest violins for the poor white victims in our society

You miss the point. We don't care about your name calling. Hardy is better for our activism. But you do you because calling people names is surely going to help improve schools where you pretend to live. Shocking that whining and name calling of white folks in W3 and W2 hasn't yet improved schools in W7 and W8. That really seemed like a winning approach on paper.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not a Hardy parent but good for these parents for getting organized and leading an effective outcome.
This puts DCPS on notice that they better do right by Hardy.
Maybe someone could encourage the Hardy parent organizers to help other parent communities at other schools to organize as well to pressure DCPS to improve learning conditions.
DCPS needs accountability as they get away with way too much crap

This would be viewed as "condescending" and "evidence of privilege". There is no winning. If you don't try and help you are a racist. If you try and help you are a racist. The only acceptable response is to self flagellate early and often and hope to be labeled and ally.

-signed
Someone who used to try and support these causes but has had enough

Everyone get out your tiniest violins for the poor white victims in our society

Anonymous wrote:This controversy will set Hardy back a decade. Sad.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not a Hardy parent but good for these parents for getting organized and leading an effective outcome.
This puts DCPS on notice that they better do right by Hardy.
[b]Maybe someone could encourage the Hardy parent organizers to help other parent communities at other schools to organize as well to pressure DCPS to improve learning conditions.
DCPS needs accountability as they get away with way too much crap

This would be viewed as "condescending" and "evidence of privilege". There is no winning. If you don't try and help you are a racist. If you try and help you are a racist. The only acceptable response is to self flagellate early and often and hope to be labeled and ally.

-signed
Someone who used to try and support these causes but has had enough

Everyone get out your tiniest violins for the poor white victims in our society

Are you really trying to convince us you’ve tried to help the schools of other Wards? Because no one believes you.

Y’all are crazy defensive. You think it’s “performative” to consider your role in perpetuating inequality and racism. you’ve got no intention of helping others whatsoever. You benefit from this system. You’re like—I got mine!! My kids are “suffering” at this TERRIBLE school and we just HAPPEN to have time and resources to do something about it!! Geez I wonder WHY you have the time and resources to do anything about it?? Nothing to do with race there, huh??

No one’s is saying you should stop advocating but the the repeated screams of THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE! are just dumb.

PJ might have needed to go but I have no doubt that had he been a young WHITE first year principal it would have been handled differently.

I still do not understand what you want. You clearly have a problem with a lot of things. But I'm not sure how you think this whole chain of events should have been handled.

I think you want a bunch of people to say, "You got me; I'm a total racist," because that would confirm you world view. But what that has to do with solving problems for Hardy is beyond me.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This controversy will set Hardy back a decade. Sad.

PJ set Hardy back a decade. This "controversy" will reverse the backslide.

You guys are ridiculous. In one year PJ set the school back a decade? This is the kind of ludicrous unsubstantiated hysteria that got 400 parents whipped into a frenzy to sign a letter slim on facts. It’s also the kind of statement that makes you sound racist as hell given how over the top it is.

In the more than 5 years I’ve known Hardy, it has never been some kind of perfect gem! All the things happening at Hardy now happened under Cooke and Pride and the others before them. Then we had Covid, and budget cuts, and mental health crisis affecting kids, families, and teachers. Nothing is the same from before.

Cooke was better at PR. He answered his damn emails—but man he paid a lot of lip service to a bunch of things that NEVER changed under him. Nice guy but some really crappy teachers served under his watch. We had no clubs for years with Cooke and the sports were nonexistent? Where any you actually here under Cooke’s first few years? And then there’s that other difference between Cooke and PJ…wait what was it again??? Hmmm. Never mind.

It’s funny because you loved him so and yet you have at least a few of his coworkers here telling you all repeatedly that YOU ALL contributed to his departure with your nonsense but you’re just covering your ears. “ Lalalala” I can’t hear you! It could never have been ME!! I’m not the problem.

There you go again with the crazed accusations of racism. I stopped reading at that point as I suspect did everybody else who has any interest in reasoned discourse. Any administrator or teacher worth their salt values parents who are invested in their children’s education and the schools that provide it. Those who abhor parental involvement and accountability for performance generally have the most to lose from it.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard from reliable sources that there is more information that both teachers AND parents are not privy to that played into this decision. I personally do not know what this info is, but it’s clear there is more to this story than just a petition. I wouldn’t jump on here and make claims one way or another without being able to say you 100% know all the facts. [b]The truth is, no one in this board knows 100% of it.

And yet you jumped on the board and did exactly that. Info that teachers and parents don’t know yet somehow was mentioned to you but you don’t know what it is…

I guess when all else fails, use random gossip, innuendo, and totally unsubstantiated rumors. As if the accusations against PJ weren’t already vague enough…Fights! Schedules! Lies! Other secrets things secret people told me must have happened!! Trust us it was bad! Even if you didn’t realize it was bad. It was.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This controversy will set Hardy back a decade. Sad.

PJ set Hardy back a decade. This "controversy" will reverse the backslide.

You guys are ridiculous. In one year PJ set the school back a decade? This is the kind of ludicrous unsubstantiated hysteria that got 400 parents whipped into a frenzy to sign a letter slim on facts. It’s also the kind of statement that makes you sound racist as hell given how over the top it is.

In the more than 5 years I’ve known Hardy, it has never been some kind of perfect gem! All the things happening at Hardy now happened under Cooke and Pride and the others before them. Then we had Covid, and budget cuts, and mental health crisis affecting kids, families, and teachers. Nothing is the same from before.

Cooke was better at PR. He answered his damn emails—but man he paid a lot of lip service to a bunch of things that NEVER changed under him. Nice guy but some really crappy teachers served under his watch. We had no clubs for years with Cooke and the sports were nonexistent? Where any you actually here under Cooke’s first few years? And then there’s that other difference between Cooke and PJ…wait what was it again??? Hmmm. Never mind.

It’s funny because you loved him so and yet you have at least a few of his coworkers here telling you all repeatedly that YOU ALL contributed to his departure with your nonsense but you’re just covering your ears. “ Lalalala” I can’t hear you! It could never have been ME!! I’m not the problem.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This controversy will set Hardy back a decade. Sad.

PJ set Hardy back a decade. This "controversy" will reverse the backslide.

You guys are ridiculous. In one year PJ set the school back a decade? This is the kind of ludicrous unsubstantiated hysteria that got 400 parents whipped into a frenzy to sign a letter slim on facts. It’s also the kind of statement that makes you sound racist as hell given how over the top it is.

In the more than 5 years I’ve known Hardy, it has never been some kind of perfect gem! All the things happening at Hardy now happened under Cooke and Pride and the others before them. Then we had Covid, and budget cuts, and mental health crisis affecting kids, families, and teachers. Nothing is the same from before.

Cooke was better at PR. He answered his damn emails—but man he paid a lot of lip service to a bunch of things that NEVER changed under him. Nice guy but some really crappy teachers served under his watch. We had no clubs for years with Cooke and the sports were nonexistent? Where any you actually here under Cooke’s first few years? And then there’s that other difference between Cooke and PJ…wait what was it again??? Hmmm. Never mind.

It’s funny because you loved him so and yet you have at least a few of his coworkers here telling you all repeatedly that YOU ALL contributed to his departure with your nonsense but you’re just covering your ears. “ Lalalala” I can’t hear you! It could never have been ME!! I’m not the problem.

DP: My DS has hated his experience at Hardy this year -- abhors the constant misbehavior and lack of any effective discipline. If he had hated school this much under Cooke, I would have been complaining then too. I'm not accepting that he -- nor my younger DS -- should have to just be miserable because you think it was bad in the past too. I'm sorry change is tough for you, even if it may turn out positive for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This controversy will set Hardy back a decade. Sad.

PJ set Hardy back a decade. This "controversy" will reverse the backslide.

You guys are ridiculous. In one year PJ set the school back a decade? This is the kind of ludicrous unsubstantiated hysteria that got 400 parents whipped into a frenzy to sign a letter slim on facts. It’s also the kind of statement that makes you sound racist as hell given how over the top it is.

In the more than 5 years I’ve known Hardy, it has never been some kind of perfect gem! All the things happening at Hardy now happened under Cooke and Pride and the others before them. Then we had Covid, and budget cuts, and mental health crisis affecting kids, families, and teachers. Nothing is the same from before.

Cooke was better at PR. He answered his damn emails—but man he paid a lot of lip service to a bunch of things that NEVER changed under him. Nice guy but some really crappy teachers served under his watch. We had no clubs for years with Cooke and the sports were nonexistent? Where any you actually here under Cooke’s first few years? And then there’s that other difference between Cooke and PJ…wait what was it again??? Hmmm. Never mind.

It’s funny because you loved him so and yet you have at least a few of his coworkers here telling you all repeatedly that YOU ALL contributed to his departure with your nonsense but you’re just covering your ears. “ Lalalala” I can’t hear you! It could never have been ME!! I’m not the problem.

DP: My DS has hated his experience at Hardy this year -- abhors the constant misbehavior and lack of any effective discipline. If he had hated school this much under Cooke, I would have been complaining then too. I'm not accepting that he -- nor my younger DS -- should have to just be miserable because you think it was bad in the past too. I'm sorry change is tough for you, even if it may turn out positive for everyone.

I still fail to see how any of this makes things better for Hardy in the short and long term. Starting a search for a new leader and probably a good amount of teachers a month or two behind everyone else. Whoever is principal next year will be just as new and inexperienced, and I can promise you that there is nothing DCPS central is going to do to impact student misbehavior