Is your middle school a mess regarding behavior post-covid?

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Anonymous wrote:Let's face MS in FCPS is a holding pen. We don't know what to do with these not small children anymore, not really teens yet so let's dump them all together for 2 years. It's a horrible age.

No, it's not a horrible age. It's a horrible school district.

Prior to the year and a half of no school, anyone with kids at our middle school would have said it was a wonderful place, wonderful school, with amazing tachers and principals.

Distance learning changed that.

Fcps broke our kids.

It won’t get fixed until the parents and teachers can agree to move forward.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Let's face MS in FCPS is a holding pen. We don't know what to do with these not small children anymore, not really teens yet so let's dump them all together for 2 years. It's a horrible age.

No, it's not a horrible age. It's a horrible school district.

Prior to the year and a half of no school, anyone with kids at our middle school would have said it was a wonderful place, wonderful school, with amazing tachers and principals.

Distance learning changed that.

Fcps broke our kids.

I wonder how people like you who feel victimized by everything instill any sort of resiliency in your kids. By the way, one of my kids really struggled with virtual learning. There is no question virtual learning was a flop for most kids. It sucked. And I am a frontline nurse....so Covid was beyond stressful for our family. But if you believe and act like kids are "broken" because of this experience, they internalize it. And Covid was traumatizing for kids on so many fronts besides virtual learning; some lost loved ones (yes in the DMV, ask me how I know), some kids had parents lose jobs, they saw increased domestic/political tension, all the uncertainty that came with a pandemic, etc. Oh and add in unlimited screen time (not something the school controls, right?). So when you conclude from all this sh7t storm that "FCPS broke our kids," you sound like an ignorant simpleton.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our MS was messier than usual at the beginning of the fall. A few disciplinary issues, but more issues with kids with anxiety. A lot of teachers were a little rusty both on classroom management and just their processes of forming relationships with students in person. Now things are smoother.

Overall, I think MS is a pretty joyful place to be. Kids that age are as goofy and off-the-wall as they always have been. I think the kids going outside for lunch adds a really nice sense of spirit, and they often go outside for PE too. They seem pretty healthy and happy. The 15 min break always has a lively social buzz about it (though right now it has been paused at our school for testing). I've noticed a lot of the kids seem more resilient and a bit more aware of the world than maybe in years prior--I see it in classroom discussions and in their writing. The top students don't get as freaked out about an A- or a B+ as they might have done pre-pandemic. So teachers are fairly burnt out from having to retool so many times and cover lots of gaps, but at least for me, I get energy and happiness from the students.

Is it all fcps Middle schoolers who are afraid to take off their masks, or is your school better on that? Poor kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And yet, plenty of us had kids home in DL just as long as everyone else and yet managed to send them back with manners and self-control and not feral.

Parenting is awesome. More people should try it sometime.

Some of the kids of the “my kids thrived! Thrived! Love DL” parents are some of the worst behavioral offenders. You have no idea.

My multiple kids did well in DL and I’m quite sure if any of them were behavioral problems this year in person, I’ve had heard from the schools by May, but thanks for your concern. LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:Are we still blaming Covid for behavioral problems a year later?

My middle school kid is pretty moody. He stayed home for a year and went back to school last spring. He has been back in school for over a year. He is shy and socially awkward. Thirty years ago, I was also a shy, socially awkward, moody middle school student. There were plenty of bad kids at my middle school. They tried to be cool.

Of course. Schools were closed for over a year, then barely opened for the last month or so and just had the kids staring at screens in person. Now middle schoolers won't even take masks off their faces b/c they are afraid for people to see what they really look like.

That’s not why they wear masks and you know it. Stop lying. You sound like a 7th grader yourself. Sad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:POST-Covid??? Who are you kidding? We're at numbers higher than in January. Covid is not over.

Covid is absolutely over. Stop with your nonsense

No, it’s not, Brenda. Stop with your nonsense.

Covid is over but unfortunately all these kids are going to be messed up for years, and it was all pointless.

Keep making excuses, whining and waiting for your “apologies” for distance learning. Hold you breath and stomp your feet. Maybe that will help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, ours went back March 16, for two days a week and continued no Monday instruction (constant all year) through the end of the school year. I'm sure those @ 20-ish ? days of in person school spent on laptops with a monitor made a huge difference for my now-7th grader. Life-changing!

Seriously, you must grow up, stop tantruming and move forward. Get professional help if you can’t.

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest started at Irving the year COVID hit, so didn't quite have a full year there, but there were not the issues I have heard about happening this year. I don't know if it's the year and a half of virtual or something about the particular group of kids there now, but I worry for my youngest to start there.

I have had 3 kids go through Irving, one there now.

With the older 2, I only recall 1 fight in 4 years. It truly was a wonderful place.

Since shut downs, it has been lord of the flies.

Last spring was very positive, kids happy to be back and excited to see one another. That was when the only kids back were the ones who really wanted to be there. It was a wonderful spring.

Now that all the kids are back, this year has been insane.

I really do think that the 5/6/7 graders over covid had too much unsupervised time on their phones and no expectations from virtual school.

The 9th graders were a disaster too first semester at WSHS. But they finally got it together 2nd semester and spring has gone smoothly.

We are reaping the consequences of distance learning.

Yawn. Get a new song, this one is tired and makes you sound stupid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we still blaming Covid for behavioral problems a year later?

My middle school kid is pretty moody. He stayed home for a year and went back to school last spring. He has been back in school for over a year. He is shy and socially awkward. Thirty years ago, I was also a shy, socially awkward, moody middle school student. There were plenty of bad kids at my middle school. They tried to be cool.

Of course. Schools were closed for over a year, then barely opened for the last month or so and just had the kids staring at screens in person. Now middle schoolers won't even take masks off their faces b/c they are afraid for people to see what they really look like.

Yep.

They are tellimg each other, especially girls, that they are too ugly to take off their masks.

So they won't.

Imagine what that does to your mind, to think you are too ugly or too anonymous to show your face.

They don't make eye contact and spend the day without seeing smiles.

Stop parroting ignorant Right Wing antimasker talking points.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest started at Irving the year COVID hit, so didn't quite have a full year there, but there were not the issues I have heard about happening this year. I don't know if it's the year and a half of virtual or something about the particular group of kids there now, but I worry for my youngest to start there.

I have had 3 kids go through Irving, one there now.

With the older 2, I only recall 1 fight in 4 years. It truly was a wonderful place.

Since shut downs, it has been lord of the flies.

Last spring was very positive, kids happy to be back and excited to see one another. That was when the only kids back were the ones who really wanted to be there. It was a wonderful spring.

Now that all the kids are back, this year has been insane.

I really do think that the 5/6/7 graders over covid had too much unsupervised time on their phones and no expectations from virtual school.

The 9th graders were a disaster too first semester at WSHS. But they finally got it together 2nd semester and spring has gone smoothly.

We are reaping the consequences of distance learning.

Yawn. Get a new song, this one is tired and makes you sound stupid.

DP. Did you read the post? Doesn't' seem like you did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's face MS in FCPS is a holding pen. We don't know what to do with these not small children anymore, not really teens yet so let's dump them all together for 2 years. It's a horrible age.

No, it's not a horrible age. It's a horrible school district.

Prior to the year and a half of no school, anyone with kids at our middle school would have said it was a wonderful place, wonderful school, with amazing tachers and principals.

Distance learning changed that.

Fcps broke our kids.

I wonder how people like you who feel victimized by everything instill any sort of resiliency in your kids. By the way, one of my kids really struggled with virtual learning. There is no question virtual learning was a flop for most kids. It sucked. And I am a frontline nurse....so Covid was beyond stressful for our family. But if you believe and act like kids are "broken" because of this experience, they internalize it. And Covid was traumatizing for kids on so many fronts besides virtual learning; some lost loved ones (yes in the DMV, ask me how I know), some kids had parents lose jobs, they saw increased domestic/political tension, all the uncertainty that came with a pandemic, etc. Oh and add in unlimited screen time (not something the school controls, right?). So when you conclude from all this sh7t storm that "FCPS broke our kids," you sound like an ignorant simpleton.

They don’t, clearly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My oldest started at Irving the year COVID hit, so didn't quite have a full year there, but there were not the issues I have heard about happening this year. I don't know if it's the year and a half of virtual or something about the particular group of kids there now, but I worry for my youngest to start there.

I have had 3 kids go through Irving, one there now.

With the older 2, I only recall 1 fight in 4 years. It truly was a wonderful place.

Since shut downs, it has been lord of the flies.

Last spring was very positive, kids happy to be back and excited to see one another. That was when the only kids back were the ones who really wanted to be there. It was a wonderful spring.

Now that all the kids are back, this year has been insane.

I really do think that the 5/6/7 graders over covid had too much unsupervised time on their phones and no expectations from virtual school.

The 9th graders were a disaster too first semester at WSHS. But they finally got it together 2nd semester and spring has gone smoothly.

We are reaping the consequences of distance learning.

Yawn. Get a new song, this one is tired and makes you sound stupid.

DP. Did you read the post? Doesn't' seem like you did.

Sure did. Full of the same ignorant BS. Mooooove ooooooon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My oldest started at Irving the year COVID hit, so didn't quite have a full year there, but there were not the issues I have heard about happening this year. I don't know if it's the year and a half of virtual or something about the particular group of kids there now, but I worry for my youngest to start there.

I have had 3 kids go through Irving, one there now.

With the older 2, I only recall 1 fight in 4 years. It truly was a wonderful place.

Since shut downs, it has been lord of the flies.

Last spring was very positive, kids happy to be back and excited to see one another. That was when the only kids back were the ones who really wanted to be there. It was a wonderful spring.

Now that all the kids are back, this year has been insane.

I really do think that the 5/6/7 graders over covid had too much unsupervised time on their phones and no expectations from virtual school.

The 9th graders were a disaster too first semester at WSHS. But they finally got it together 2nd semester and spring has gone smoothly.

We are reaping the consequences of distance learning.

Yawn. Get a new song, this one is tired and makes you sound stupid.

DP. Did you read the post? Doesn't' seem like you did.

Sure did. Full of the same ignorant BS. Mooooove ooooooon.

It was too long for you, I guess. Sorry about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we still blaming Covid for behavioral problems a year later?

My middle school kid is pretty moody. He stayed home for a year and went back to school last spring. He has been back in school for over a year. He is shy and socially awkward. Thirty years ago, I was also a shy, socially awkward, moody middle school student. There were plenty of bad kids at my middle school. They tried to be cool.

Of course. Schools were closed for over a year, then barely opened for the last month or so and just had the kids staring at screens in person. Now middle schoolers won't even take masks off their faces b/c they are afraid for people to see what they really look like.

That’s not why they wear masks and you know it. Stop lying. You sound like a 7th grader yourself. Sad.

Why do you think all the middle schoolers are still wearing masks when the ES and HS kids aren't?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we still blaming Covid for behavioral problems a year later?

My middle school kid is pretty moody. He stayed home for a year and went back to school last spring. He has been back in school for over a year. He is shy and socially awkward. Thirty years ago, I was also a shy, socially awkward, moody middle school student. There were plenty of bad kids at my middle school. They tried to be cool.

Of course. Schools were closed for over a year, then barely opened for the last month or so and just had the kids staring at screens in person. Now middle schoolers won't even take masks off their faces b/c they are afraid for people to see what they really look like.

That’s not why they wear masks and you know it. Stop lying. You sound like a 7th grader yourself. Sad.

Do you have a middle schooler? This is absolutely 100% without a doubt why the entire middle school is still wearing masks .They do NOT want anyone to think they are ugly without the mask on.