The young daughter of an educator educates her peers'The Monday after that October game, Coach Hardy walked into his classroom and found a Hangman game scrawled across his white board. The six blanks were filled in with the N-word. An…
That October night in the stands, freshman Peighton Hardy was there with her whole family, supporting her school’s team, the Ironwood Ridge Nighthawks, in their final game of the season.
People are also reading… I met him on a Saturday this past spring at the River Park to talk about the incident. Hardy brought his kids, Peighton, Jordyn and Tyce to enjoy the day.Second thing I learned? It was going to be a challenging interview because everyone at the park recognized Coach Hardy and wanted to interrupt us to give him a sunny shoutout. The man’s a local celebrity.
When rumblings of a student walkout were spreading, my ex-wife, and good friend, Anne Fitzsimmons, who has taught for Amphi for 35 years, proposed a modified walkout. Students would simply walk to Coach Hardy’s class, shake his hand and express their love and support for him. Standing in front of the microphone she looked out at her friends, her classmates, her teachers. She wanted her mostly white peers to understand what it was like growing up as a mixed-race kid.Her family had absorbed racial insults before. When her younger brother, Tyce, was in elementary school a fellow student insisted on calling him “Brown Boy.” Just one of ten thousand speed bumps for a strong, loving, resilient family to handle with head-shaking grace.
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