Anonymous wrote:#s from Principal Pride speaking at a forum today - 6th graders - she broke down by 'feeders' 18 from Hyde-Addison, 13 from Stoddert, 6 from Mann, 5 from Key, 1 from Eaton. 35% of the 130 students in 6th. (Likely of course some of the feeder kids, (only 38% of H-A was IB last year). 10 kids from Thompson, 10 from Brent, 10 from another school I missed, and 2 or less from other schools. She noted that they take some kids in January from Bowling Air Force Base and/or embassies when those rotations change over. Found Pride to be extremely impressive and making a big effort to reach out to the community. Honors English in every grade, geometry program now in the school, etc.

She said she plans to remain at the school for a long time.

Anonymous wrote:#s from Principal Pride speaking at a forum today - 6th graders - she broke down by 'feeders' 18 from Hyde-Addison, 13 from Stoddert, 6 from Mann, 5 from Key, 1 from Eaton. 35% of the 130 students in 6th. (Likely of course some of the feeder kids, (only 38% of H-A was IB last year). 10 kids from Thompson, 10 from Brent, 10 from another school I missed, and 2 or less from other schools. She noted that they take some kids in January from Bowling Air Force Base and/or embassies when those rotations change over. Found Pride to be extremely impressive and making a big effort to reach out to the community. Honors English in every grade, geometry program now in the school, etc.

She said she plans to remain at the school for a long time.

Anonymous wrote:#s from Principal Pride speaking at a forum today - 6th graders - she broke down by 'feeders' 18 from Hyde-Addison, 13 from Stoddert, 6 from Mann, 5 from Key, 1 from Eaton. 35% of the 130 students in 6th. (Likely of course some of the feeder kids, (only 38% of H-A was IB last year). 10 kids from Thompson, 10 from Brent, 10 from another school I missed, and 2 or less from other schools. She noted that they take some kids in January from Bowling Air Force Base and/or embassies when those rotations change over. Found Pride to be extremely impressive and making a big effort to reach out to the community. Honors English in every grade, geometry program now in the school, etc.

She said she plans to remain at the school for a long time.

Anonymous wrote:#s from Principal Pride speaking at a forum today - 6th graders - she broke down by 'feeders' 18 from Hyde-Addison, 13 from Stoddert, 6 from Mann, 5 from Key, 1 from Eaton. 35% of the 130 students in 6th. (Likely of course some of the feeder kids, (only 38% of H-A was IB last year). 10 kids from Thompson, 10 from Brent, 10 from another school I missed, and 2 or less from other schools. She noted that they take some kids in January from Bowling Air Force Base and/or embassies when those rotations change over. Found Pride to be extremely impressive and making a big effort to reach out to the community. Honors English in every grade, geometry program now in the school, etc.

She said she plans to remain at the school for a long time.

Anonymous wrote:So has count day happened yet?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

On this we can agree: if "inculcate future fashionista" is an important criterion in your middle school choice, you should not consider either the British School or Hardy.

Why not? What if my kid likes fashion? The best I could hope is for the Hardy environment to create a repressed artist begging to escape the torture.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

On this we can agree: if "inculcate future fashionista" is an important criterion in your middle school choice, you should not consider either the British School or Hardy.

Why not? What if my kid likes fashion? The best I could hope is for the Hardy environment to create a repressed artist begging to escape the torture.

"torture"

PP, you should really be ashamed of yourself.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

On this we can agree: if "inculcate future fashionista" is an important criterion in your middle school choice, you should not consider either the British School or Hardy.

Why not? What if my kid likes fashion? The best I could hope is for the Hardy environment to create a repressed artist begging to escape the torture.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

On this we can agree: if "inculcate future fashionista" is an important criterion in your middle school choice, you should not consider either the British School or Hardy.

Why not? What if my kid likes fashion? The best I could hope is for the Hardy environment to create a repressed artist begging to escape the torture.

Actually, the Hardy kids took part in this event last year - and it was awesome!

http://www.trashionfashionshow.com/about/

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

On this we can agree: if "inculcate future fashionista" is an important criterion in your middle school choice, you should not consider either the British School or Hardy.

Why not? What if my kid likes fashion? The best I could hope is for the Hardy environment to create a repressed artist begging to escape the torture.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

On this we can agree: if "inculcate future fashionista" is an important criterion in your middle school choice, you should not consider either the British School or Hardy.

Why not? What if my kid likes fashion? The best I could hope is for the Hardy environment to create a repressed artist begging to escape the torture.