Things my 8th grader will not miss once leaving Deal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sad that DC’s best middle school is so trashy.

All middle schoolers are trashy

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Anonymous wrote:We had a lovely dinner conversation this evening and this is the short list that was talked about:
1 - Avoiding Nerf Gun Battles in the Hallways
2 - Locked Bathrooms
3 - Going to the Bathroom and watching others give stick and poke tattoos
4 - Fights
5- Classmates pulling fire alarms
6 - Bathrooms without soap
7 - Smell of pot while walking to / from school
8 - Going to class and there not being any adults there
9 - Going to class and there being a bunch of kids there who are not in the class
10 - Having an assembly to talk about school rules and knowing it is a joke and will never be enforced

Should’ve added in my first response but all of these things also happened at my ivy so hope your child eventually weans themself off the snowflake juice you feed them

Wtf college did you attend where people were pulling fire alarms and having behavior assemblies?

DCU

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:4 fights at recess today….

okay. Did you lose one of them? Who cares about ms kids fighting

A few weeks ago they could not find one of the kids who was involved with a fight after recess. This is a problem and to not acknowledge that when there is a fight, a child can get seriously injured is concerning.

They have recess?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:4 fights at recess today….

okay. Did you lose one of them? Who cares about ms kids fighting

A few weeks ago they could not find one of the kids who was involved with a fight after recess. This is a problem and to not acknowledge that when there is a fight, a child can get seriously injured is concerning.

They have recess?

Yes - after/before lunch. The kids have a full period for lunch and most kids do not need this amount of time to eat so as a part of their lunch period they have recess.

[Anonymous]

What is her period?

[Anonymous]

Sixth graders eat lunch during third. Seventh graders eat during fourth. Eighth graders eat during fifth.

[Anonymous]

These sound like a small deal 😉
Though my middle school wasn’t like this. Perhaps if it was concerning you should have pulled your child out.

[Anonymous]

PP, it isn’t so easy to “pull your child out.” Where will they go? If that is your assigned public school, that is your choice. Private is 40-50k per year and hard to get into.

[Anonymous]

All the Reno bathrooms are again.

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*closed again

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL - I guess Deal has really gone downhill since my 2nd kid graduated 9 months ago!

Aside from the occasional fights I never heard any of these complaints from my boys one of whom was a bit of a snowflake.

I've never heard a kid complain about, care or even notice the smell of Pot.

But go ahead and shelter your snowflake by sending him to a private school - overcrowding is the real issue at Deal so glad if your hyperbole helps out with that problem in even a little way!

There is pot everywhere in DC and Tenleytown. stairwells at whole foods are a favorite spot to permeate the parking lot with pot. The ones marked no loitering and no smoking. Our kid complained to my husband about not wanting to go to the candy aisle at Target anymore "because it smells so bad". Guess what it smelled like the day he took her? Just awful. DC was getting so nice. Can't have nice things in the this city .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s the size. We have 2 at Latin MS and while there is the occasional fight or discipline problems, it’s nothing like this.

Latin also has the opportunity to tell students that they are not welcome to re-enroll.

They were loathe to do that when we were there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like jail. I’m not even kidding.

Sounds like you’ve never been inside a jail.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a lovely dinner conversation this evening and this is the short list that was talked about:
1 - Avoiding Nerf Gun Battles in the Hallways
2 - Locked Bathrooms
3 - Going to the Bathroom and watching others give stick and poke tattoos
4 - Fights
5- Classmates pulling fire alarms
6 - Bathrooms without soap
7 - Smell of pot while walking to / from school
8 - Going to class and there not being any adults there
9 - Going to class and there being a bunch of kids there who are not in the class
10 - Having an assembly to talk about school rules and knowing it is a joke and will never be enforced

So, middle school. Great attempt to slam deal tho

I went to a private middle school and encountered none of this

I went to a PUBLIC middle school and encountered none of this.

I went to a public suburban middle school 30 years ago and encountered all of this, and much worse. DC must be full of snowflakes for so many of you to never have seen any of this.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a lovely dinner conversation this evening and this is the short list that was talked about:
1 - Avoiding Nerf Gun Battles in the Hallways
2 - Locked Bathrooms
3 - Going to the Bathroom and watching others give stick and poke tattoos
4 - Fights
5- Classmates pulling fire alarms
6 - Bathrooms without soap
7 - Smell of pot while walking to / from school
8 - Going to class and there not being any adults there
9 - Going to class and there being a bunch of kids there who are not in the class
10 - Having an assembly to talk about school rules and knowing it is a joke and will never be enforced

So, middle school. Great attempt to slam deal tho

I went to a private middle school and encountered none of this

I went to a PUBLIC middle school and encountered none of this.

I went to a public suburban middle school 30 years ago and encountered all of this, and much worse. DC must be full of snowflakes for so many of you to never have seen any of this.

Either many people have blocked out what their own experiences were like in the 80s/90s, or there really are too many people in the DMV who grew up in posh private schools all their lives.