Fights at Lakelands Middle

[Anonymous]

Anyone with kids at LPMS know what is going on? My kid comes home every day with news of some sort of brawl.

[Anonymous]

There are fights and incidents at every middle and high school in the county right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are fights and incidents at every middle and high school in the county right now.

Right now? It's always been that way. Even in my small town Catholic high school there were fights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are fights and incidents at every middle and high school in the county right now.

Right now? It's always been that way. Even in my small town Catholic high school there were fights.

Nah, not at all.

I went to a public MS and HS in an area that was not wealthy. There were not nearly as many fights as there are in my kid’s MCPS middle school.

Sorry, OP. It’s been bad since pre-Covid and has just gotten worse. Not much admin can do about it. Just try to tell your kid to steer clear as much as possible. Helps to eat lunch in the Media Center since my kid notes the fights are often in the cafeteria at lunch time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are fights and incidents at every middle and high school in the county right now.

Right now? It's always been that way. Even in my small town Catholic high school there were fights.

Shhh, we want to make it sound like society is in decline, and saying this isn't helping our false narrative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are fights and incidents at every middle and high school in the county right now.

Right now? It's always been that way. Even in my small town Catholic high school there were fights.

Nah, not at all.

I went to a public MS and HS in an area that was not wealthy. There were not nearly as many fights as there are in my kid’s MCPS middle school.

Sorry, OP. It’s been bad since pre-Covid and has just gotten worse. Not much admin can do about it. Just try to tell your kid to steer clear as much as possible. Helps to eat lunch in the Media Center since my kid notes the fights are often in the cafeteria at lunch time.

The board meeting the other day made it sound like things had gotten much better over recent years. For example, far fewer calls to police etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are fights and incidents at every middle and high school in the county right now.

Right now? It's always been that way. Even in my small town Catholic high school there were fights.

Nah, not at all.

I went to a public MS and HS in an area that was not wealthy. There were not nearly as many fights as there are in my kid’s MCPS middle school.

Sorry, OP. It’s been bad since pre-Covid and has just gotten worse. Not much admin can do about it. Just try to tell your kid to steer clear as much as possible. Helps to eat lunch in the Media Center since my kid notes the fights are often in the cafeteria at lunch time.

There is a LOT admin can do - detentions, suspend, call parents and tell them to pick up their kids and if they don't, they are not welcome back, have parents babysit kids in school all day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are fights and incidents at every middle and high school in the county right now.

Right now? It's always been that way. Even in my small town Catholic high school there were fights.

Nah, not at all.

I went to a public MS and HS in an area that was not wealthy. There were not nearly as many fights as there are in my kid’s MCPS middle school.

Sorry, OP. It’s been bad since pre-Covid and has just gotten worse. Not much admin can do about it. Just try to tell your kid to steer clear as much as possible. Helps to eat lunch in the Media Center since my kid notes the fights are often in the cafeteria at lunch time.

The board meeting the other day made it sound like things had gotten much better over recent years. For example, far fewer calls to police etc.

Fewer calls to polices does not equal fewer fights. It just means that admin is not calling the police and more likely, admin is just sweeping incidents under the rug.

Ask any teacher if there are more fights now versus five years ago.

Which MCPS middle school do your kids attend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are fights and incidents at every middle and high school in the county right now.

Right now? It's always been that way. Even in my small town Catholic high school there were fights.

Nah, not at all.

I went to a public MS and HS in an area that was not wealthy. There were not nearly as many fights as there are in my kid’s MCPS middle school.

Sorry, OP. It’s been bad since pre-Covid and has just gotten worse. Not much admin can do about it. Just try to tell your kid to steer clear as much as possible. Helps to eat lunch in the Media Center since my kid notes the fights are often in the cafeteria at lunch time.

There is a LOT admin can do - detentions, suspend, call parents and tell them to pick up their kids and if they don't, they are not welcome back, have parents babysit kids in school all day.

Sure at a private school this can happen. It does not happen at publics

[Anonymous]

Kids don't see suspension as punishment anymore. They get to go home and play video games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are fights and incidents at every middle and high school in the county right now.

Right now? It's always been that way. Even in my small town Catholic high school there were fights.

Nah, not at all.

I went to a public MS and HS in an area that was not wealthy. There were not nearly as many fights as there are in my kid’s MCPS middle school.

Sorry, OP. It’s been bad since pre-Covid and has just gotten worse. Not much admin can do about it. Just try to tell your kid to steer clear as much as possible. Helps to eat lunch in the Media Center since my kid notes the fights are often in the cafeteria at lunch time.

The board meeting the other day made it sound like things had gotten much better over recent years. For example, far fewer calls to police etc.

Fewer calls to polices does not equal fewer fights. It just means that admin is not calling the police and more likely, admin is just sweeping incidents under the rug.

Ask any teacher if there are more fights now versus five years ago.

Which MCPS middle school do your kids attend?

+1 it's like how the covid denying states wouldn't report the numbers. If you don't report, then the numbers don't look bad.

#RJ
#equity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone with kids at LPMS know what is going on? My kid comes home every day with news of some sort of brawl.

Is it affecting you kid? If not, how about not worrying about it and let the school deal with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone with kids at LPMS know what is going on? My kid comes home every day with news of some sort of brawl.

Is it affecting you kid? If not, how about not worrying about it and let the school deal with it.

Were you raised by alcoholic felons? Of course violence effects all kids.

Lpms does seem to have more fights than other schools.
My dc has been attacked 3 separate times.
And the principal sent an email, this week, indicating a "threat" had been made against a group of kids. Police found the threat was not credible.

Mcps will continue its decline and people like pp will try to normalize it. But what's happening to your children isn't normal and shouldn't be accepted.
Violent students should be immediately suspended. 2nd strike, they should be sent to a school with other Violent students and staff equipped to deal with them.

[Anonymous]

Only people who have not actually been in the school since COVID truly believe that the behavior is the same as in the past. Things are much worse and much more violent. The difference is that there are no consequences so the outside people say that things are getting better (lack of police, detentions, suspensions), but that’s all a facade by MCPS to cover-up the actual behaviors.

To answer OP, LP is probably seeing the same as the rest of the county. Every actual teacher and administrator will tell you that. Only parents will tell you that everything’s okay and that your kid should just ignore the behaviors (yet I’ll bet if the same behaviors were happening in their workplace and they were scared, they’d be the first to HR).

Complain to the BOE! Demand change!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone with kids at LPMS know what is going on? My kid comes home every day with news of some sort of brawl.

Is it affecting you kid? If not, how about not worrying about it and let the school deal with it.

Neighbor shot outside home. Ignore it. That’s the MCPS code?