Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christo. Shut the heck up. Enough already with the uniforms thing. Seriously.

Go ahead, flame me for being "one of the Hardy natives" or someone who "wants to maintain the status quo." I'm in-bound (for Mann, as in previous posts).

I care about the education, first and foremost. Advanced courses matter. Scores and feeder enrollment matter. The difference between inputs and outputs matter. Uniforms do not.

The uniforms say ghetto

Yup, just like the uniforms at Latin, GDS, etc.

I'm agnostic on the uniform issue but GDS most certainly doesn't wear uniforms. Do you mean NCS?

By uniforms at GDS you must be referring to tight jeans and pink hair.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christo. Shut the heck up. Enough already with the uniforms thing. Seriously.

Go ahead, flame me for being "one of the Hardy natives" or someone who "wants to maintain the status quo." I'm in-bound (for Mann, as in previous posts).

I care about the education, first and foremost. Advanced courses matter. Scores and feeder enrollment matter. The difference between inputs and outputs matter. Uniforms do not.

The uniforms say ghetto

Yup, just like the uniforms at Latin, GDS, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christo. Shut the heck up. Enough already with the uniforms thing. Seriously.

Go ahead, flame me for being "one of the Hardy natives" or someone who "wants to maintain the status quo." I'm in-bound (for Mann, as in previous posts).

I care about the education, first and foremost. Advanced courses matter. Scores and feeder enrollment matter. The difference between inputs and outputs matter. Uniforms do not.

The uniforms say ghetto

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christo. Shut the heck up. Enough already with the uniforms thing. Seriously.

Go ahead, flame me for being "one of the Hardy natives" or someone who "wants to maintain the status quo." I'm in-bound (for Mann, as in previous posts).

I care about the education, first and foremost. Advanced courses matter. Scores and feeder enrollment matter. The difference between inputs and outputs matter. Uniforms do not.

Well, the number of kids yelling four-letter obscenities mixed with loud allusions to sodomy (as they depart from school) is also distasteful, but may also become less of a concern as time goes by.

Troll (or a booster for Stephanie Lilley, candidate for Board of Education Ward 3. Lilley has already taken steps to open a middle school charter school just feet from Hardy - see http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/24498/does-ward-3-need-a-charter-middle-school-or-can-hardy-transform-itself/ ).

I have been checking around Hardy by 3:15 pm (when kids are dismissed from school) for the past weeks. I have not seen any inappropriate behavior. Yes, lots of noise, kids running (on your feet if you stay too close to the school), but nothing of concern to me, or unexpected from a wave of 11-14 year old kids.

Mom of IB Hyde 5th grade, who's seriously considering Hardy for next year.

Nah, I'm not a troll; what I'm describing is accurate and worthy of discussion if folks are concerned about improving the atmosphere, that is if you think loud obscenity warrants a mention. Go sit on the sidewalk corner and you'll hear a lot of loud obscenities, straight-up. But there's no physical misbehavior, if that's what you mean. I don't think it's trollish to suggest that the amount of obscenity will diminish if the percentage of IB attendance goes up. But, I could be wrong if there's a lot of obscenity at Deal, too, which has a higher IB percentage than Hardy. I've never been around Deal at dismissal time to find out and make a comparison.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christo. Shut the heck up. Enough already with the uniforms thing. Seriously.

Go ahead, flame me for being "one of the Hardy natives" or someone who "wants to maintain the status quo." I'm in-bound (for Mann, as in previous posts).

I care about the education, first and foremost. Advanced courses matter. Scores and feeder enrollment matter. The difference between inputs and outputs matter. Uniforms do not.

Well, the number of kids yelling four-letter obscenities mixed with loud allusions to sodomy (as they depart from school) is also distasteful, but may also become less of a concern as time goes by.

Troll (or a booster for Stephanie Lilley, candidate for Board of Education Ward 3. Lilley has already taken steps to open a middle school charter school just feet from Hardy - see http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/24498/does-ward-3-need-a-charter-middle-school-or-can-hardy-transform-itself/ ).

I have been checking around Hardy by 3:15 pm (when kids are dismissed from school) for the past weeks. I have not seen any inappropriate behavior. Yes, lots of noise, kids running (on your feet if you stay too close to the school), but nothing of concern to me, or unexpected from a wave of 11-14 year old kids.

Mom of IB Hyde 5th grade, who's seriously considering Hardy for next year.

The curse for the neighborhood are the Georgetown University students , and their behavior and yells at night, the junk they create around the neighborhood, especially on weekends when they are drunk. Not the Hardy students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christo. Shut the heck up. Enough already with the uniforms thing. Seriously.

Go ahead, flame me for being "one of the Hardy natives" or someone who "wants to maintain the status quo." I'm in-bound (for Mann, as in previous posts).

I care about the education, first and foremost. Advanced courses matter. Scores and feeder enrollment matter. The difference between inputs and outputs matter. Uniforms do not.

Well, the number of kids yelling four-letter obscenities mixed with loud allusions to sodomy (as they depart from school) is also distasteful, but may also become less of a concern as time goes by.

Troll (or a booster for Stephanie Lilley, candidate for Board of Education Ward 3. Lilley has already taken steps to open a middle school charter school just feet from Hardy - see http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/24498/does-ward-3-need-a-charter-middle-school-or-can-hardy-transform-itself/ ).

I have been checking around Hardy by 3:15 pm (when kids are dismissed from school) for the past weeks. I have not seen any inappropriate behavior. Yes, lots of noise, kids running (on your feet if you stay too close to the school), but nothing of concern to me, or unexpected from a wave of 11-14 year old kids.

Mom of IB Hyde 5th grade, who's seriously considering Hardy for next year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christo. Shut the heck up. Enough already with the uniforms thing. Seriously.

Go ahead, flame me for being "one of the Hardy natives" or someone who "wants to maintain the status quo." I'm in-bound (for Mann, as in previous posts).

I care about the education, first and foremost. Advanced courses matter. Scores and feeder enrollment matter. The difference between inputs and outputs matter. Uniforms do not.

Well, the number of kids yelling four-letter obscenities mixed with loud allusions to sodomy (as they depart from school) is also distasteful, but may also become less of a concern as time goes by.

Its usually the kids from the British school up the block that are usually screaming obscenities after school lets out - but I can see how you might get confused.

Nah, I never hear any loud, four-letter smack from the BritKids -- and they're well-behaved and mild-mannered in Safeway, too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christo. Shut the heck up. Enough already with the uniforms thing. Seriously.

Go ahead, flame me for being "one of the Hardy natives" or someone who "wants to maintain the status quo." I'm in-bound (for Mann, as in previous posts).

I care about the education, first and foremost. Advanced courses matter. Scores and feeder enrollment matter. The difference between inputs and outputs matter. Uniforms do not.

Well, the number of kids yelling four-letter obscenities mixed with loud allusions to sodomy (as they depart from school) is also distasteful, but may also become less of a concern as time goes by.

Its usually the kids from the British school up the block that are usually screaming obscenities after school lets out - but I can see how you might get confused.

Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christo. Shut the heck up. Enough already with the uniforms thing. Seriously.

Go ahead, flame me for being "one of the Hardy natives" or someone who "wants to maintain the status quo." I'm in-bound (for Mann, as in previous posts).

I care about the education, first and foremost. Advanced courses matter. Scores and feeder enrollment matter. The difference between inputs and outputs matter. Uniforms do not.

Well, the number of kids yelling four-letter obscenities mixed with loud allusions to sodomy (as they depart from school) is also distasteful, but may also become less of a concern as time goes by.

Jesus Christo. Shut the heck up. Enough already with the uniforms thing. Seriously.

Go ahead, flame me for being "one of the Hardy natives" or someone who "wants to maintain the status quo." I'm in-bound (for Mann, as in previous posts).

I care about the education, first and foremost. Advanced courses matter. Scores and feeder enrollment matter. The difference between inputs and outputs matter. Uniforms do not.

NP, uniforms should be very, very low on your criteria for choosing a school. If you're hung up on them, you weren't really considering Hardy at all.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The use of school uniforms is categorically not a defensible reason to reject a school that you otherwise like unless you are stunningly shallow and/or easily pushed around by your kids.

It's a non-issue. Period.

It's not just that many kids don't like them. It's that prospective parents associate public school uniforms with troubled urban schools that have chronic discipline issues.

This says more about the parents than it does about the uniforms.

Or perhaps more about the school, which feels that uniforms are necessary

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The use of school uniforms is categorically not a defensible reason to reject a school that you otherwise like unless you are stunningly shallow and/or easily pushed around by your kids.

It's a non-issue. Period.

It's not just that many kids don't like them. It's that prospective parents associate public school uniforms with troubled urban schools that have chronic discipline issues.

This says more about the parents than it does about the uniforms.

Anonymous wrote:The use of school uniforms is categorically not a defensible reason to reject a school that you otherwise like unless you are stunningly shallow and/or easily pushed around by your kids.

It's a non-issue. Period.

It's not just that many kids don't like them. It's that prospective parents associate public school uniforms with troubled urban schools that have chronic discipline issues.