Physical fights in the hallways?

[Anonymous]

Happens all the time at our inbound MS. Which is why we went with private. It just wasn't worth the additional stress on my already anxious kid.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, everyone. I feel oddly… comforted? to hear it is common and seems stemmed from boredom or entertainment. Our school does suspend, but it persists.

Are they charged with assault once they reach high school/teen years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Minor fights occasionally (maybe one a year) but the kids get suspended immediately. K-8 private (coed).

Lol

Laugh all you want but it works. Kids know if they misbehave they’re getting suspended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Minor fights occasionally (maybe one a year) but the kids get suspended immediately. K-8 private (coed).

Lol

Laugh all you want but it works. Kids know if they misbehave they’re getting suspended.

^ PP. kids get sent to the principal and in school suspension for verbal fight (using derogatory names). The school doesn’t put up with anything. Fine by me.

[Anonymous]

Welcome to Alexandria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach middle school. We average 2 fights a day. The students plan the fights through text or social media, then all of the students are in the hallway filming the fight. The crowd makes it hard for the adults to get in and break it up.

Search instagram for your school’s name - there are probably accounts created just to post the fight videos.

Same. Our admin patrol the grounds after school to try to deter them but they can easily communicate where they are and meet somewhere out of sight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s because they don’t suspend kids any more. This used to be an automatic suspension.

Suspending kids is racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Minor fights occasionally (maybe one a year) but the kids get suspended immediately. K-8 private (coed).

Lol

Laugh all you want but it works. Kids know if they misbehave they’re getting suspended.

I don’t know that it matters. The kids doing the fighting in hall don’t care if they get suspended. The only positive is if they are suspended, they aren’t there to cause/participate in fighting.

[Anonymous]

Yes. We have fights regularly at our MCPS middle school. Sometimes in the hallways, which is annoying for my smallish DD if she gets knocked into something. Often fights in the cafeteria.

Half the time it’s girls fighting and half the time it’s boys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to Alexandria.

Or MCPS. Daily occurrence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it happens but not constant. My DS just showed me a video of two 6th graders "fighting" in the bathroom at school. They were taking swings at each other and pushing.

When my HS DS was in MS, he had a friend who was constantly getting in little scraps - sometimes in the cafeteria, sometimes in the hall.

MS boys can be idiots and they typically grow out of it by HS. Typically.

Well, someone just brought a knife to RMHS a few weeks ago in MCPS. Plus, there have been a ton of other issues with weapons and fighting in the bathrooms at other MCPS high schools.

Not sure that the kids do grow out of it. And not just boys, plenty of girl fights also.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to Alexandria.

Or MCPS. Daily occurrence.

Yeah. Lots of fights in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Minor fights occasionally (maybe one a year) but the kids get suspended immediately. K-8 private (coed).

Lol

Laugh all you want but it works. Kids know if they misbehave they’re getting suspended.

What’s interesting is public schools do suspend for a fight but private schools do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this a common-ish thing at your middle school? DD comes home maybe once a month and says there was a fight. Does this continue into high school?

FCPS parent here. Middle School, yes, specially girls. Once a month? how about once per week...

My kids are in high school now and there is barely any fights at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it happens but not constant. My DS just showed me a video of two 6th graders "fighting" in the bathroom at school. They were taking swings at each other and pushing.

When my HS DS was in MS, he had a friend who was constantly getting in little scraps - sometimes in the cafeteria, sometimes in the hall.

MS boys can be idiots and they typically grow out of it by HS. Typically.

Well, someone just brought a knife to RMHS a few weeks ago in MCPS. Plus, there have been a ton of other issues with weapons and fighting in the bathrooms at other MCPS high schools.

Not sure that the kids do grow out of it. And not just boys, plenty of girl fights also.

JW/RM is all trash now. And IB program can’t cover it all up